Palliative Care Acute Clinical Nurse Specialist

This Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care post will be based within the existing Specialist Palliative Care Team , working alongside staff to ensure that people with palliative care needs within our trust receive the care they need to achieve the best quality of life possible.

The Specialist Palliative Care Team are a part of a wider Specialist Palliative Care Team at a time of integration across acute and community services. We are working together in partnership with all Palliative Care services across Warwickshire to ensure patients and carers are at the heart of care.

This post holder will support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence based and reflects current best practice.

Using specialist palliative care skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness.

The post holder will act as a specialist resource across the whole hospital using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of developing and delivering education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies both formally and informally, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a Palliative Care expert practitioner based within the acute hospital who will take a key role in strengthening the nursing contribution to patients and service users within the speciality across the organisation.

In partnership with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless Specialist Palliative Care Service. The role is vital in delivering the highest standards of clinical care and supporting efficiency to drive improvements in health outcomes.

Using advanced nursing practice; takes responsibility as a member of the team for managing a caseload of hospital inpatients referred for Specialist Palliative Care and support.

The post holder will demonstrate highly developed and specialist knowledge and expertise and will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of innovative practice, research and standards of care.

The post holder will develop strategies to ensure practice development and education for other professionals caring for patients with Specialist Palliative Care needs.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.