Specialist Palliative Care Nurse | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR4 7YA |
| Company: | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7324437/839-7324437-AB |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse with the relevant skills and experience to work as a band 7 Specialist Palliative Care Nurse , based in our friendly, supportive team.
The Community Specialist Palliative Care Nursing PLACE teams are based at locations across Norwich, North, South and West Norfolk providing expert clinical palliative and end of life care for patients in their own homes and care facilities.
We have 2 part time posts available, one role will be covering Norwich City centre, based from Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Norwich, and another to work within West Place based from St James Hospital, Kings Lynn.
The service also provides a 24/7 palliative care advice line, covered by the CSPCN team between 08:00-20:00, and supported by the specialist palliative care service overnight whilst held by another team. The advice line operates from the coordination centre at the new purpose-built Priscilla Bacon Lodge, in Colney, as well as from the base of your working base/Place when appropriate.
The teams work as part of the wider Specialist Palliative Care Service which includes a consultant-led specialist inpatient unit, a therapy team a Psychological family support team and a Day Therapies service.
We are proud to work closely with our Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity colleagues who support patients with enhanced care such as complementary therapy, bereavement support, music therapy and more.
You will have your own caseload of patients within PLACE (West or Norwich) and will work closely with colleagues in community nursing and therapies teams, Norwich Supported Care and GPs/Primary Care, to clinically manage palliative and end of life care patients safely in their own homes.
As a part of your role you will provide clinical leadership and support to our Associate Palliative Care Nurses and expert advice and psychological support to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals as part of a daily clinical team working on our 24/7 advice line.
Our Band 7 Specialist Nurses are also expected to act as Non-Medical Prescribers and you will be supported to undertake a relevant post-registration training course if required.
The service offers a commitment to ongoing personal development and offers a supportive, friendly network of colleagues.
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
• The post-holder is expected to operate autonomously at an advanced level of clinical practice providing evidence based expert palliative care and advice to all colleagues.
• To provide holistic specialist palliative care nursing assessment of patients and carers with highly complex needs, identifying priorities of care, implementing strategies in order to give this care and evaluation to ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
• To utilise clinical assessment skills and non-medical prescribing as required.
• To provide education, information and advice to patients, their relatives and carers acting as the patient’s advocate where appropriate.
• To provide psychosocial support utilising advanced communication skills, particularly at times of high distress or heightened emotional response, e.g. at times of diagnosis, at a time of recurrence and managing last few days of life.
• Influencing clinical practice, indirectly with the provision of education, information and advice, to providers of generalist palliative care.
• To participate in MDT, GSF and SPCN meetings as a core member of the specialist palliative care team contributing to the MDT discussion/patient assessment/care planning.
• Identify those adults and children at risk of complicated grief and plan care as appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025
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