Senior Staff Nurse-Palliative Care Day Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an nurse with specialist palliative care experience to work in our newly reopened Day Services. A new model for the service is being delivered incorporating outpatient clinics and patient and carer education sessions to encourage self-management. We are also keen to explore ways in which we can expand the service to reach those patients and carers who would normally not engage with our services.

Meadow House provides a specialist palliative care service for the residents of the boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. The Specialist Palliative Service comprises of a 15 bedded in-patient unit, day services and a large multidisciplinary community team.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Day Services manager and other members of the multidisciplinary team to support patients and their carers in assessing and creating management plans for palliative care physical symptom management, social, financial and psychological issues.

• Delivery of nursing care to all patients in the Day Services setting


• Supervises and coordinates patients, families and volunteers, providing direction and support in absence of the Day Services Manager/CNS.


• Effective discharge planning.


• Assist in meeting the requirements of the Clinical Governance programme pertaining to Day Services.


• Ensures the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care in the Day Services setting.


• Acts as a resource and educator to staff, patients and their carers and pre-registered students in Day Services.


• Ensures effective communication within the Day Services both among staff and with patients and their relatives and carers.


• Deputises for the Day Services Manager/CNS as required.


• Represents the Day Services at meetings internally and externally in absence of the Day Services Manager/ CNS


• Develops specialist skills and knowledge that are required to deliver palliative care in a Day Services setting
  
  London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.


Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:
Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK

St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice

Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.