Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Exciting Opportunity for a Band 7 CNS
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 CNS to work within our highly skilled, motivated and dynamic team. We aim to make a difference and improve the experience of palliative care patients at various stages of their disease trajectory.
Role Overview
The post will be based within the existing inpatient Palliative Care Team. We offer 7-day face-to-face support to ensure that people with specialist palliative care needs will receive the best quality care. The team currently consists of:
- 4 palliative consultants’ equivalent to 2.5 WTE
- 1 Band 8a Lead Nurse
- 4 WTE Band 7 CNS
- 1 WTE band 6 Associate CNS
- 1 WTE Band 7 Palliative Care Discharge Coordinator
Key Responsibilities
The Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a specialist clinician with extensive experience and knowledge of caring for patients with advanced life-threatening illness. The CNS contributes to the provision of the palliative care service in the acute setting as part of the MDT, working collaboratively with colleagues, patients, carers, other health and social care professionals, statutory, voluntary and independent organisations to ensure optimum patient management.
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As a senior nurse, the CNS will be expected to:
- Manage a caseload autonomously and provide expert advice and support to patients with life-limiting illness and potentially facing end-of-life care issues, and support them and their families, using advanced clinical judgement and knowledge in palliative care.
- Participate in providing a 7-day face-to-face service.
- Contribute to the weekly Hospital Palliative Care MDT meeting.
- Design and deliver specialist palliative care education, as well as end-of-life care to colleagues and other health and social care professionals.
- Take part in regular palliative care team audits and review of clinical practice, to develop research skills and contribute to the development of multi-disciplinary research within palliative care.
- Act as a resource, educator and advocate for patients, their carers, and healthcare professionals.
- Work within statutory legislation and local policies and procedures in relation to palliative care and end-of-life care.
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About Us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Contact Information
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For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Rhona Cunningham
Job title: Lead Nurse Palliative Care
Email address: Rhona.Cunningham@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07436038401
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