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Community Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Band 7

37.5 hrs per week contract

St. John’s Information and Support Centre,  St John's Hospice

Permanent contract

The Community Specialist Palliative Care Team is looking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist with proven experience within specialist palliative care. The role will be varied and challenging, the service facilitates 7 day responsive visits and clinical triage as part of a Specialist Palliative Care Triage.  This involves gatekeeping and initiating a clinical assessment at point of contact for all Specialist Palliative Care services.

The Post Holder will be expected to act as an autonomous practitioner providing complex Specialist Palliative Care symptom management and advice to support patients their families and carers. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, promoting good collaborative team working and an ability to creatively facilitate implementation of the End-of-Life care tools such as electronic End of Life register (EPaCCs) and Advance Care Planning. You will be involved in providing education to Health and Social Care staff across a range of settings.

Main duties of the job

Specialist Palliative Care Services
The practitioner will manage an autonomous community caseload requiring specialist input for complex palliative care needs.

To act as an autonomous practitioner, providing complex specialist palliative care symptom management, education, advice, counselling, and support to community patients, their families and carers.

Provide clinical triage, adhering to the Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) referral criteria, on a rota basis to ensure patients, their families and carers with complex needs receive the most appropriate specialist input in a timely and responsive manner.

The practitioners will work with primary, secondary care and nursing home staff and the multi-disciplinary palliative care team offering specialist advice and educational input. 

To contribute to the development of services according to local, regional and national directives

• To act as an initial point of contact to the Specialist Palliative Care 
  Team.
• Provide a specialist telephone triage assessment and support for 
  health/social care professionals and patients and carers.
•  Receive appropriate referrals from Palliative Care Triage, facilitating care and support in a responsive manner according to priority of need.
• Following specialist holistic assessment and interpretation of the 
  information collected, in conjunction with other health care 
  professionals, patient and the carer, formulate and implement a plan of action. Continually review programme according to changing needs.

Working for our organisation

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/