Clinical Nurse Specialist Perinatal Palliative Care, COAST

At Southern Hospice Group and Chestnut Tree House (CTH), we believe every baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition deserves outstanding, compassionate care, wherever they are. Following on from a successful proof-of-concept, Southern Hospice Group (SHG) has been awarded the contract to establish a 24/7 consultant led childrens palliative and end of life care service for Sussex. The neonatal CNS is a vital member of our CNS Team, ensuring that babies with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions receive compassionate, specialist, family centred care from the earliest stages of life. This role is essential in delivering equitable, high quality palliative care from diagnosis onwards, ensuring that every baby and family has access to expert support wherever care is delivered. Working with our Nurse Consultant and Lead Consultant, this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the clinical team that shapes and delivers a fully integrated 24/7 paediatric palliative care service across Sussex, working across home, hospice, community and hospital settings to improve continuity of care. You will use your specialist clinical skills, experience, knowledge and expertise to provide excellent care to babies, children and young people and their families/carers across Sussex. You will provide high quality symptom and palliative care, working closely with Chestnut Tree House (Childrens Hospice) and community teams to provide a seamless comprehensive service.,

• Helping families to navigate complex decisions and co-ordinate care across hospital and
community settings to access timely palliative care that focuses on quality of life, symptom management and family well-being.
• Working collaboratively with neonatal intensive care units, maternity services, paediatric teams, hospices and primary care.
• Supporting advanced care planning, facilitating smooth transfers between services and supporting the delivery of compassionate care and support wherever it is needed.
• Acting as a specialist neonatal nursing resource for symptom and palliative care, monitoring and evaluating the effects of prescribed treatments.
  
  from suitably experienced people from all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and
enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Southern Hospice Group is the UKs largest local Hospice Group, comprising two adults hospices andone Childrens Hospice. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care toadults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as oneorganisation means we can focus on new and plans for our people and patients and provide evengreater opportunities for our workforce. Chestnut Tree House is the childrens hospice for Sussex and Southeast Hampshire, providingspecialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions. St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun andHenfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living wellservices. Martlets provides essential care to adults affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove andsurrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients andtheir loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.