Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

The Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse will join an established Specialist Palliative Team which provides a 7-day service.

The post holder will be expected to work independently and as part of the wider healthcare team and carry out a comprehensive holistic assessment of need for patients, with a palliative diagnosis, using their clinical reasoning and expert knowledge to ensure the delivery of quality clinical outcomes working in close collaboration with other health and social care professionals.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to the wider palliative and end of life care agenda within the community in Luton including the Bedfordshire Palliative co-ordination Service, provide education across a range of professionals and ensure the team provides a flexible responsive service that meets the local needs within Luton., Undertake holistic health assessments of patients with complex palliative and end of life care needs in community settings

To demonstrate required Nursing skills

To proactively plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the provision of a high-quality specialist palliative and end of life care within the community .

Make appropriate clinical decisions independently and seeking senior guidance where necessary in reviewing, monitoring and managing patients.

Assess plan and evaluate care for patients, their families and carers

Monitor patient needs and interventions and appropriately report to the identified key worker.

To provide education to patients, their families and health professionals.

Actively participate and contribute to the weekly multidisciplinary specialist palliative care team meeting .

Actively participate and contribute to other locality multidisciplinary team meetings as an expert palliative care/end of life professional

Provide patients and their families /carers with information

Work as part of a multidisciplinary teams acting as patient advocate for specialist palliative and end of life nursing advice and care. .

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.