Hospital Specialist Palliative Care CNS - Acute In-Reach

The Palliative care clinical nurse specialist will In-reach with the acute hospital areas of Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust (A&E, Acute floor and SDEC), alongside an allocated palliative care social worker to identify and facilitate the rapid discharge or transfer of patients with palliative care needs to an appropriate preferred place of care. The post holder will support timely, effective care, assessment, and intervention for patients with specialist palliative care needs with in a multi-professional workforce., The Palliative care clinical nurse specialist will In-reach with the acute hospital areas of Calderdale& Huddersfield NHS Trust (A&E, Acute floor and SDEC), alongside an allocated palliative care social worker to identify and facilitate the rapid discharge or transfer of patients with palliative care needs to an appropriate preferred place of care. The post holder will support timely, effective care, assessment, and intervention for patients with specialist palliative care needs with in a multi-professional workforce.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.