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Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2025 |
| Location: | Oldham, OL4 1DL |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6947275/236-OCO-NM103-25 |
Summary
Join Our Team: Palliative Care Specialist Opportunity
We are seeking a dedicated professional to provide evidence-based palliative care, advice, and support to patients diagnosed with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses, along with their caregivers. In this role, you will be accountable for your own professional actions without direct supervision.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver high-quality palliative care as part of a seven-day service, collaborating with nursing, medical, and AHP colleagues across departmental and organisational boundaries
• Provide guidance on a variety of clinical and ethical issues, promoting palliative care education among various professional disciplines
• Support clinical audits within your area of practice, contributing to the process of Clinical Governance for the Trust
If you are passionate about improving the quality of life for patients and their families during challenging times, we invite you to apply and join our compassionate team.
We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Community Palliative Care Nurse to join our team, managing a caseload of patients and their families or caregivers with palliative care needs. In this role, you will assess, develop, and implement individualised care programs tailored to the unique needs of each patient.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage a caseload of patients and their families or carers with palliative care needs, assessing, developing, and implementing comprehensive care programs
• Provide expert palliative care advice and support to patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, utilising your specialist knowledge to address key issues such as treatment, pain and symptom management, psychosocial needs, and ethical dilemmas. Collaborate with other Palliative Care Nurses as necessary
• Assist patients in achieving self-care when appropriate and educate caregivers to enable them to provide effective support at home or in hospital settings
• Establish and maintain highly effective communication with patients, caregivers, and professionals across health and social care, developing therapeutic relationships to navigate sensitive, distressing, and complex issues
• Act as an advocate for patients, families, and caregivers when necessary, ensuring that their needs and wishes are prioritised.
• Work flexibly and during unsocial hours to meet the demands of the service
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025
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