Senior Nurse - Cardiff and the Vale

The role of the Senior Nurse will be to proactively identify patients that are approaching the end of their lives, ensure supportive conversations are had to enable them and their loved ones to discuss their preferences and wishes., Working with the Health Boards' existing teams and the patients loved ones, the Senior Nurse will ensure holistic assessments are undertaken to support fast track assessments and ongoing care and treatment plans. This will include advance care planning and the completion of clear and comprehensive treatment escalation plans., The Senior Nurse will work as part of the Health Boards discharge team and collaborate with the existing multi-disciplinary and specialist palliative care teams to ensure patients are discharged safely and timely to an alternative care setting according to preference and need., The Senior Nurse will also work closely with Marie Curies existing Hospice Care at Home Service to utilise our care and support capacity to facilitate discharges into the community.

The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life. Right now, one in four people in the UK with a terminal illness, do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives