Macmillan Lead Nurse Palliative Care

The Macmillan Lead Nurse for Palliative Care is managerially responsible and accountable to the Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse for the management, leadership and development of the palliative care service within the Trust.

The post holder will be a highly experienced palliative care nurse with vision and drive to lead an excellent team of clinical nurse specialists, and lead a well- established service in collaboration with the Consultant in Palliative Medicine, for the ongoing development of palliative and end of life care across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Work autonomously as an expert nurse, receiving and making direct referrals, assessing, planning and reviewing patients, initiating treatments and prescribing independently.

Undertake the comprehensive holistic needs assessment of complex palliative care patients, including those reaching end of life, using clinical and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised recommendations, management and treatment plans.

Engage with families and carers of patients, in particular those with complex needs, using advanced communication skills to identify their needs.

As an authoritative expert in specialist palliative care advise colleagues on complexities and issues relating to the speciality including advanced symptom control, ethical issues in end of life care.

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We are dedicated to using our Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach as our shared organisation model of change to enhance our services and ensure excellence in patient care.