Macmillan Assistant Practitioner End of Life Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen at London North West Healthcare Trust for an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic individual to join the Specialist Palliative Care team as a Macmillan End of Life Assistant Practitioner. The Trust's palliative care service is responsible for delivering high quality end of life care to patients and carers based in the acute hospital setting, so if you thrive on a challenge and feel you can make a real difference to the care of our patients, this post may be for you., The palliative care nursing team are looking for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to assist them in providing high quality care to patients entering the end of their lives. The role will include a mixture of patient and carer assessment, generic staff training around end of life care and liaison with treating teams around symptom management. Candidates should be strong patient advocates with good communication and clinical skills. The role involves elements of discharge planning and data management.

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.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.