Registered Nurse Hospital at Home - End of Life Care
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Job overview
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is leading a bold transformation in Community and Palliative End of Life Care across the county. Our vision is simple yet powerful: to ensure people nearing the end of life experience a peaceful, dignified death in the place of their choosing.
Currently, Cornwall has one of the highest rates of hospital stays during the last 90 days of life, a clear signal that change is needed. We are creating a more patient-centred, community-based approach that brings compassionate care closer to home in the last year of their life or nearing the end of life.
As part of our growing service, we are:
- Reducing unnecessary hospital admissions
- Delivering personalised care plans to support home-based care
In collaboration with the Macmillan Social Investment Fund and local partners, we're expanding services including:
- A 24/7 Rapid Community Response and Care Service
- A dedicated End of Life Care phone line for public and professionals
- Strengthened voluntary sector partnerships and our Hospital@Home virtual service
We have opportunities available across various localities within the county, offering flexibility in base location depending on service need and candidate preference with a requirement to cover Cornwall and the Isles of Scillys.
Main duties of the job
As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with complex health and social care needs. Ensuring provision of a holistic nursing assessment and high quality, safe, evidence-based care to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes. This includes physical examination and detailed history taking, diagnosis of deterioration in pre-existing conditions and treatment planning. Your experience and skills should enable you to recognise that a person is deteriorating and advanced care planning might be appropriate and/or that the person is coming into the last days of life and that dying phased care is appropriate.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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