Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

The overall purpose of this post is to provide quality improvements in the provision of Palliative Care in Bury by providing evidence-based specialist Palliative Care advice to patients with a life-threatening illness and their carers so as to enhance their quality of life. The Palliative Care Nurse is to work collaboratively with the multi-professional team across primary, secondary care and liaising with tertiary care to enable the provision of a high standard of care. A core element of this role is to provide and support of all members of the Primary Health Care Team and others as necessary.

• Under the supervision of the specialist Palliative Care team, manage a workload of patients with complex Palliative Care needs.
• Provision of Palliative Care advice on symptom control, disease treatments, psychological and social issues to support a high standard of care to patients with complex needs.
• Work collaboratively with members of the Primary Health Care Team to ensure that patients with Specialist Palliative Care needs and their carers are met, involving other members of the Palliative Care Multi-disciplinary Team as appropriate.
• Attend and contribute to the Palliative Care weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting maintaining effective communication across the spectrum of professional carers
• Use effective and empathic advanced communication skills to support patients and carers when they are dealing with uncertainty and coping with bad news.
• Work with other members of the Palliative Care Team to develop and provide appropriate training and education for the multi-disciplinary team that improves the quality of Palliative Care provision.
• Work with other members of the Palliative Care Team to implement initiatives such as NICE guidance that improve the quality of Palliative Care.
• Ensure own professional development in line with Key Skills Framework.
• Maintain up-to-date patient care records.
• Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional conduct.
• To undertake any other reasonable duty, which is appropriate to the band, when requested by Senior Staff.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire- to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance. We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website:https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/ To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

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