Clinical Nurse/Paramedic Specialist - Hospice at Home
Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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Cyflog: | £47,300.00 bob blwyddyn |
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47300.00 a year |
Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
Dyddiad cau: | 22 Gorffennaf 2025 |
Lleoliad: | Maidenhead, SL6 2DN |
Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
Cyfeirnod swydd: | B0488-25-0004 |
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Responsibilities: Care with Agility: To work as part of our specialist, highly skilled and dedicated Palliative Care Response Team making sure our patients feel more comfortable and at ease in familiar surroundings To act as a resource to patients in East Berkshire and South Bucks who are on the End of Life Register by offering assessment, complex symptom control, emotional support, advanced care planning, advice, and treatment To act as a resource to fellow professional colleagues across the locality of East Berkshire To function autonomously in providing excellent end of life care advice Advise and collaborate with professional colleagues on management of physiological and / or psychological symptoms Use specialist skills and high level decision making, including the evaluation of research and evidence, in the assessment and management of complex symptoms in Nurse led clinics or patients homes Financial Accountability: You'll find more for less solutions and lead a cost-conscious culture, ensuring sustainability for the future You'll be detailed conscious and a forward planner who has excellent IT and planning skills to ensure the smooth operation of the team within budget Supportive Culture: Provide mentorship and facilitation to other professionals with less experience in end of life care Support junior staff in the Palliative Care Response Team and each other when required Participate in external educational activities in collaboration with the Thames Hospice Education Department Provide educational mentorship and facilitation to new team members and students Extending reach: To ensure all communication with people from a variety of backgrounds with diverse needs is accurate, timely and aligned to our values To role model the right behaviours and ways of working to understand ethnic, cultural, spiritual, religious and any other differences between people to ensure our people, patients and families feel included and supported Role specific responsibilities: Triage all referrals via the 24-hour advice line to undertake skilled holistic assessment and triage Use advanced communication skills to negotiate, influence and challenge practice in all settings Assess and plan effective end of life care interventions, communicating these planned interventions clearly and concisely both in verbal and written format to other Health Care Professionals Monitor and evaluate the outcome of planned care Work collaboratively with Living Well Services to ensure all patients have access to RN/Paramedic assessment and to and other Hospice Services. Use high level communication skills to elicit concerns, establish and maintain a trusting and therapeutic relationship with patients and their family/carers facilitating the sharing of sensitive and emotive information relating to prognosis and disease, death and dying Promote effective communication, coordination of care and appropriate referrals to other services Proactively co-ordinate and manage a corporate caseload Respond to urgent calls for symptom management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions Attend Gold Standard Framework meetings to discuss patients on caseload Attend Community Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings to facilitate learning and ensure best practice Participate in a 7-day a week service across the locality Prescribe, where appropriate and competent, for palliative care symptoms in line with Thames Hospice and local prescribing policies Ensure that the team meet contractual and organisational Key Performance Indicators Participate in audit/s of the service, to identify if improvements and/or changes have enabled an improved patient and care experience Report accidents, incidents and complaints in area of responsibility as per procedure, participating in investigations as required Ensure staff understand and work to the processes for lone working, role boundaries and patient confidentiality To undertake any other reasonable duties in accordance with job role