Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Would you enjoy working in our thriving multi-disciplinary palliative care team where we, day to day work to achieve the best outcomes for the people we support? Could you imagine yourself working in the heart of London? Are you ambitious to develop your palliative career and would you like to develop in this growing, well-renowned team with a long tradition of ‘can do’? If yes, then please contact us to find out more.
We provide the space to care; access to a multi-professional team; we are committed to a happy and cohesive team; value personal and professional development; and aim to facilitate a risk-confident and supportive culture.
We are recruiting a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist for our community palliative care team in South Camden and Islington. We are looking for someone who can appreciate their resilience and motivation to work in this area, and also can demonstrate compassion, self-knowledge, confidence, generosity, and courage.
As a service we provide palliative care to the patients of UCLH and South Camden & Islington community. The community team is based at St Pancras Hospital, and we work as one team with the UCLH hospital team. Camden, and Islington boroughs are the homes to diverse communities, as well as being the setting for many well-known London landmarks and facilities. These are just a few of the reasons we love working here.
Working in the community, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, as part of a team managing a caseload of palliative care patients with a variety of conditions, and often complex needs. This role will involve being part of a large team of nurses who provide on call cover for UCLH hospitals, and there will be opportunity to rotate to the hospital team.
Here in Central London, the demand for palliative care is increasing at a faster pace than ever before and many more people are dying in their place of choice thanks to the work we do as a multi-professional service.
If you think you have the personal pre-requisites and skills we’re looking for, please get in touch.
We offer excellent training and development opportunities to support personal and professional development, a range of family friendly policies, an interest free season ticket loan and subsidised sports facilities.
We work a 7 day working pattern with on call via a rota until 8pm each day.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the Standards for Better Health and guidelines of the Palliative Care Team, CNWL and UCLH NHS Trusts and NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
To undertake specialist-nursing assessment of clients with complex palliative care needs through subjective questioning, objective examination, and study of appropriate written material (e.g. clinical records) available.
To prioritise factors involved in the patients and informal carers condition through advanced clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, patients prognosis and other physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, social, and mental health records.
To identify patients, their informal carers or children whom may be at risk and vulnerable. Promptly enact the process outlined in the policies for Care of Vulnerable Adults and Care of Vulnerable Children

Please refer the Job description for details