Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative and End of Life Care

Job overview

Hospital Specialist Palliative Care

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative and End of Life Care (Band 7)

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Palliative Care Specialist Team in one of the country’s largest acute NHS Trusts.

The post will be based within the existing Specialist Palliative Care Team offering ongoing support, working alongside staff to ensure that people with specialist palliative care needs are in receipt of the care they require to achieve the best quality of life possible. The post will be based at Newham Hospital.

This post holder will be highly skilled with relevant extensive palliative care experience to support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient, and high-quality care to people with complex 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.

Main duties of the job

This post will contribute to a networked service in order to facilitate access to assessment, advance care planning and treatment for a specific cohort of patients and their families with complex palliative care needs, working in partnership with generic ward staff and specialist community teams for those that are being rapidly discharged home for terminal care.

Act as a specialist resource across the whole system using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care.

Additionally, this post will be flexible and proactively support a move towards 7 day a week working with the existing CNS teams across all Barts Health sites. During main hours of operation providing cover over the weekends as well as Bank holidays.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment