King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care
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Role Description
To work as a clinical nurse specialist and effectively deliver an expert nursing service within the multi-professional palliative care team on the Princess Royal Hospital site
- To manage a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs
- Participate in providing a face to face service including weekend working.
- To assist in the development of evidence-based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines
- To establish clear lines of communication within palliative care to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary management of patients
- To link with other palliative care providers and primary care in order to facilitate the care of this group of people in the community
- To act as a role model to other nurses and support the delivery of palliative care education within the Trust
- To engage in the team’s governance program.
- To provide specialist nursing services for people with specialist palliative care needs, including their families.
- To accept responsibility for patients referred to the caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care
- To accept responsibility as the named palliative care key worker, ensuring clear documentation in patient records
- To attend and ensure that appropriate palliative care patients on the caseload are discussed at the weekly MDT
- To liaise with local community, social services, paramedics and voluntary organisations in order to develop existing services
- Ensure all patients receive appropriate follow-up and relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment and future care
- To work with the Palliative Care Team to support the ongoing implementation of the 5 priorities for care of the dying person
- To be responsible for identifying and developing clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care whilst ensuring equity of access to the service
- To actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experience of the current service and suggestions for improvements
- To liaise with discharge coordinators and ward staff to ensure appropriate and timely discharge/follow-up arrangement in place for patients
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About the Trust
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King’s Strategy – 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King’s, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities and each other
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We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Naomi Langridge
- Job title: Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Palliative Care
- Email address: naomi.langridge@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01689 865667
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