Community Palliative Care Nurse

Job overview

To provide palliative and end of life care within the community.  To manage a small team and delegate work appropriately.  To ensure supervision and appraisals are up to date.  To ensure mandatory training is up to date within the team.  To attend MDTs and liaise with the wider palliative care providers.  To deliver care between 08.00 and 19.00 over 365 days a year.

Main duties of the job

To provide palliative and end of life care within the community.  To manage a small team and delegate work appropriately.  To ensure supervision and appraisals are up to date.  To ensure mandatory training is up to date within the team.  To attend MDTs and liaise with the wider palliative care providers.  To provide emotional, psychological and emotional support to palliative patients within the community.  To prescribe medication for symptom management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

HOURS OF WORK     08.00-1900 365 days a year

ROLE SUMMARY To work as an autonomous practitioner within a Community palliative care team, supporting the delivery of the EPUT vision of patients being seen by the right person, with the right skills at the right time. • To deliver appropriate care for patients in their own home/community setting requiring palliative/end of life care. • Work autonomously on a daily basis to provide palliative support to a caseload of patients registered with a GP Practice or wider locality/geographical area. Provision of a high quality nursing service to individuals, families, groups in conjunction with other agencies, across South East Essex. To liaise with the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure all agencies are working together to provide the best possible care. Responsibility for assessing, planning and providing care to a diverse client group with complex health care needs to ensure the highest standard of care is given which complies with current clinical guidelines and legislation. 1 Compassionate Empowering Open Liaison and coordination of services, working collaboratively with other agencies both voluntary and statutory to provide a seamless service to patients and their carers, being cognizant of local and national health policies. To manage a caseload and allocate work appropriately.  To be responsible for appraisals and one to one of band 3 and band 6 within the team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CLINICAL

Responsible and accountable for ongoing assessment, symptom management and psychological support, thus ensuring that the highest standard of service and care is delivered in a consistent and safe manner, within the home and community setting. Undertake a range of clinical duties/nursing procedures and participate in the development of guidelines and protocols and ensuring all policies are implemented and adhered to. Outlined below is an indicative but not exhaustive list of the clinical procedures to be undertaken as part of this role:  Phlebotomy Pain control  Male / Female catheterisation  Management of Hickman/PICC Lines  Involvement in Chronic Disease management  Removal of drains,  Changing drainage chambers  Palliative care support  Syringe drivers  Pain management,  Family support,  Controlled drug administration  Wound care management  Management of constipation  Pressure Ulcer Management   Pressure Ulcer Equipment  02 Therapy  Referrals to other appropriate services  Management of Chemotherapy patients  Mentoring students / new staff Educating students, patients and carers  Auditing / Benchmarking  Developing IT skills / documentation