Nursing - Renal Supportive Care Specialist Nurse

This is a twelve month post working at Shrewsbury and telford renal dialysis units to cover a secondment . You will work alongside the Renal Supportive care lead to meet the role requirements. The post holder will manage a caseload and will ensure that all renal patients referred with complex palliative needs receive high quality symptom assessment, psychological support and specialist advice to meet their individual care needs. Advanced care planning is an essential part of the role to ensure a smooth transition towards end of life care, this includes have delicate respect conversations with patients and their families. The post holder will have excellent communication skills & demonstrate high levels of clinical decision-making and will monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, research and by teaching and providing support to professional colleagues.

• To be able to communicate highly sensitive and complex information to professionals, patients and to those who are important to them. This communication could be about diagnosis, treatment or prognosis. Some of the communication can be contentious and will require high level communication skills.
• To develop, negotiate and agree individualised plans of care with the patient, their carers and those important to them.
• Holistically assess patients, take and analyse a clinical history in a relevant, succinct and logical manner, and use this information to guide the level of intervention offered to patients.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the options for achieving symptom control and be able to advise the primary health care team appropriately.
• Advanced care planning
  
  We are an organisation that strives to provide high quality, safe care for our patients in an environment which our staff are proud to work in. We believe that by adhering to our Vision ("To provide excellent care for the communities we serve") and working with our Trust Values in mind (Partnering, Ambitious, Caring, Trusted) we can achieve the right results for the people that matter most - our patients and their families.