Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist | and North West NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL are pleased to announce a vacancy within:
Hillingdon's Palliative care service.

We are looking for an innovative, enthusiastic and dynamic nurse to join our team whose aim is to:

• Improve the coordination and continuity of care and support for patients and their families/carers.
• Enable supportive and proactive nursing care for people in the community who are palliative and at the end of life.

We are looking for an expert nurse with first class clinical skills, who have the ability to effectively triage clinical calls, have leadership ability, are strong team players, and who enjoy working in an ever changing and innovative environment.

You should have a creative, imaginative and flexible approach to service delivery and quality improvement and have excellent interpersonal skills with post graduate experience of working in the community, hospital or hospice environment with associated palliative care experience. Flexible working hours are available.

This is a Monday to Friday service working 8am to 4pm.

Hillingdon Community Palliative care team are a small team of CNS's and admin that strive to provide the best possible care to Palliative/end of life patients in their own homes in the community.

Working for Hillingdon community Palliative care team, we pride ourselves on great team work and rising to the challenges of day to day working in such a diverse community.

• Car user essential.
• Improve the coordination and continuity of care and support for patients and their families/carers.
• Triaging telephone calls in to the service from Patients, carers, relatives and Clinicians.
• Triaging referrals in to the service.
• Enable supportive and proactive nursing care for people in the community who are palliative or at the end of life providing high quality end of life care.
• Working closely within a multi disciplinary team ensuring excellent communications are upheld.
• Hospital admission avoidance.
• Upholding ACP wishes of patients and supporting them to achieve their desired preferred place or care/death.

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the Provider operational guidelines the Trusts, and NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
• To ensure that the patient and their informal carers have an understanding of treatment protocols and give informed consent to examination and treatment interventions recommended.
• To undertake specialist‑nursing triage and assessment of clients with palliative care needs through subjective questioning, objective examination, and study of appropriate written material (e.g. clinical records) available. This will include acting as the first point of contact for palliative care across Hillingdon in both Primary and Secondary care settings and act as an expert nurse in palliative care for patients and their families with palliative care needs.
• To independently receive, assess and make referrals from a variety of sources where no other nursing professional is currently involved. To establish priority, to determine needs, initiate and monitor treatment plans and to direct and support clinicians in this process.
• To work independently within a general Multi‑Disciplinary Team to advise where needed, on a palliative approach to patients.
• To work autonomously in isolated community care settings that vary in relation to local socio economic and multi‑cultural.
• To use comprehensive knowledge of other multidisciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure best referral management and achieve best patient.
• To contribute to the development and implementation of uni-disciplinary and multi‑disciplinary clinical policies, guidelines, protocols and care pathway.
• To participate in multi‑disciplinary assessments and cross agency assessments as required.
• To ensure dignity for the patients and their families at all.
• To ensure clinical records are recorded and maintained on the team.
• To provide specialist contribution to health promotion and health education initiatives within the.
• Attend, and actively participate in relevant departmental and nursing team meetings.
• To contribute to maintaining effective communication lines within the service and with…