Registered Nurse Plus, Community

Main Purpose As a Registered Nurse you will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing clinical care, navigation, coordination and support to hospice patients and their families Through holistic assessment provide information, advice, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals To work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it. Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret information, to enable them to determine their own future To maintain effective communication skills to deliver highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously with staff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means To work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within the locality/in-patient unit for patients who have palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is coordinated and delivered To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team ,seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required, in order to make sound decisions around palliative and end of life care To support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert to work as one team To support any streamlined locality/IPU processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology including clear outcome measures to produce efficient and highly performing community services To support the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the good reputation of the Hospice e.g. local trusts, CCG, health and social care partners, businesses and voluntary organisations To support and guide Health Care Assistants, Healthcare Support Workers and volunteers in their daily practice

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