Lead Nurse, Palliative and End of Life Care

Job overview

As a Clinical Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care you will provide evidence-based specialist palliative care and advice to patient, families and staff to ensure the delivery of high quality, person centred palliative care over 7 days. You will also be responsible for the continued development of the service in collaboration with the Consultants and Assistant Director of Nursing for the service.

You will link closely with other teams and departments across the trust and more widely across organisational boundaries.

In return you will join a supportive team and be provided with opportunities to develop within the role.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical and managerial leadership to the Specialist Palliative Care Team

Work collaboratively in the development of palliative and end of life care services Provide specialist advice for complex referrals, advising the multi professional teams on clinical management plans as required.

Maintain good relationships / communications with all disciplines within the Trust

Act as a Lead in the development and implementation of relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and protocols

Ensure compliance with organisation policies and procedures and national, legal and professional standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk