Palliative care clinical nurse specialist

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 successful candidate will:-

• Work within the multi-professional team to manage the caseload of patients presenting with specialist palliative care needs in the acute setting (Emergency Department, Acute floor and SDEC)
• Be able to triage and holistically assess patients with life-limiting conditions, that may not necessarily require prolonged stay in hospital and facilitate a rapid discharge to preferred place of care.
• Provide symptom management advice.
• Be able to triage, assess and escalate patients with specialist palliative care needs to the Hospital specialist palliative care team when necessary.
• Work alongside an allocated palliative care social worker to facilitate social care and FT funded needs.
• Liaise and work alongside the multi-professional teams including liaison with community palliative care team to support patients' needs to ensure admission avoidance in acute setting and from home.
• Act as a resource for sign posting, patients, families, carers and health professionals about palliative care services in Hospital and in the community.
• Provide guidance and support for patients making choices relating to preferred place of care and advance care planning.
• Involve patients, their families and carers in the planning and delivery of their care.
• Assess and facilitate rapid assessment to hospice when appropriate.
• Support advance care planning as appropriate and record in System One EPaCCS when consenting to share information.
• Will support integration of end-of-life care tools (eg. SPICT / Gold Standards Framework)
• Have the ability to audit performance of the project in order to participate in service review and development alongside you Macmillan palliative care team leader.
Professional Duties
• Work within the NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
• Ensure adherence to all CHFT protocols, policies and directives within service delivery.
• Act as a role model for quality nursing care at all times, promoting the need for effective evidence-based interventions and compassionate care.
• Demonstrate specialist skills and knowledge.
• Act as patient advocate at all points of the care pathway.
Managing self
• Participate in regular supervision.
• Attend all mandatory training.
• Participate annually identifying, developing and agreeing your own development plan with your Line Manager using the Trust Appraisal.
• Comply with all Trust policies, procedures and protocols.
• Carry out duties with due regard to the Trust's Equal Opportunity Policy.
• Seek advice and support from Line Manager whenever necessary.
• Maintain professional conduct including appearance at all times.
• Ensure maintenance of Professional Registration.
Managerial Duties
• Participate in service review and development alongside the specialist palliative care team.
• To ensure that continuity of care for patients and appropriate specialist nursing or other health and social support is available and accessible as appropriate, liaising where appropriate with other care settings and professionals.
• Work with other disease specific clinical teams to ensure equity of access to specialist palliative care for patients with both malignant and non-malignant conditions.
• Support CHFT's aims and objectives around service delivery and achieving targets.
• Working with the Specialist palliative care nursing team by taking part in weekly Clinical review meetings to discuss complex cases, reflect and ensure best possible outcomes.
• Promoting excellence in palliative care via evidence based practice with measurable standards of care and outcomes. Have involvement in audit projects to measure standards of care.
• Help to identify and highlight any gaps in the evidence/service provision under the supervision of the Macmillan specialist palliative care nursing team leader.
• Attend regular relevant meetings (internal and external) and provide effective channels of communication within the team as required.
• Maintain a flexible approach and develop the role according to needs.
• Work alongside the Macmillan specialist palliative care nursing team leader to support the division/Trust's annual plan and strategic vision in all care settings.
• Work towards supporting the Trust's cost efficiency programme by correct use of resources and identifying areas for further improvement.
  
  We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres 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. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

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