Senior Nurse - Cardiff & 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 role 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 Board's 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.

Marie Curie is the UKs leading end of life charity. We are the largest non NHS provider of end of life care in the UK the only provider across all 4 nations delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country while providing information and support on all aspects of dying death and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end of life and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness they are likely to die from.

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 per cent 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.

Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale Band 6 aligned with AFC £40.559 £48,841 pro-rata per annum plus enhancements

Contract: Permanent. Part Time 22.5 hours per week. The service will operate 09:00-17:00 Monday Friday

Based: Cardiff and the Vale Hospice as well as out in the community