Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Role Description
The post holder is an experienced nurse, with experience in specialist palliative care who acting within their professional boundaries, will direct specialist holistic care and support for patients with Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) needs be they at diagnosis, during treatment or at end of life, within the SPC team.
The specialist palliative care nurse will be a key team member in the delivery of specialist palliative nursing services to enable and support timely and effective care, with assessment and intervention for patients with specialist palliative care needs in all settings. They will direct safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within defined guidelines and parameters. They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team to meet the needs of patients, providing advice to professional colleagues and external agencies as needed.
The post holder will be able to work flexibly across Community settings, supporting the service according to service demand.
Key Responsibilities
- Work within the multi-professional team to manage the caseload of patients presenting with specialist palliative care needs.
- Undertake an effective nursing assessment and intervention service within CHFT.
- Liaise and work alongside the appropriate multi-professional teams to support patients’ needs to ensure admission avoidance from home.
- Act as a resource for patients, families, carers and health professionals about diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and end of life care needs.
- Ensure that the key worker role and holistic needs assessment are identified and undertaken at appropriate points of the patient care pathway in liaison with other site specific multi-professional teams.
- Liaise with other specialist palliative care teams within the locality to ensure timely referral/review of patients with specialist palliative care/end of life care needs.
- Support advance care planning as appropriate.
- Help the development of a sustainable and effective nursing assessment and intervention service across the Trust.
- Provide symptom management and control advice.
- Support integration of end-of-life care tools.
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About Us
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
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We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jayne Bargh
- Job Title: Team Lead Community Specialist Palliative Care
- Email Address: jayne.bargh@cht.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07747475243
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