Link Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Link Nurse (Registered Nurse)

Hours: 24 hours per week. Flexibility offered in start and finishtimes and days of week

Salary: £23,899 plus travel costs of 45p per mile

Job Purpose:To enable palliative and end of life patients to access services and support in a timely manner, including practical, emotional and clinical care

Responsible to:Head of Care

Accountable to: Chief Executive Officer

Overall Aim:

The role is to inform and enable patients who have palliative and end of life needs and are currently on the GP palliative care register and their carers to access appropriate services. The post holder will work in collaboration with a defined group of GP practices within West Northumberland to develop and integrate services to provide timely access for patients with palliative and end of life needs. This will promote earlier referral to community and hospice services, which will reduce inappropriate admissions and lengthy stays in acute settings.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage own caseload of patients working closely with community teams and Tynedale Hospice at Home Care co-ordinators to support consistency of care given.
• Attend and contribute to regular MDT meetings within GP practices and wider based meetings when appropriate to end of life.
• Identify and communicate with patients on GP palliative care register who are not accessing care services who would benefit from input.
• Deliver education and training for staff in delivery of evidence-based end of life care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care provision to meet individual patient needs.
• Provide end of life and palliative care training and expertise within the defined group of GP practices in West Northumberland.
• Undertake nurse prescribing functions within the defined scope of practice.
• Audit effectiveness of end of life and palliative care nursing interventions.
• Demonstrate continuous service improvement, through learning from patient feedback and incidents.
• Work collaboratively with the wider team to promote the earlier introduction of wraparound Hospice services.
• Promote and develop the use of wraparound services within current wellbeing hubs.
• Undertake the role of Practice Supervisor/ Assessor to nursing and medical students.
• Contribute to THH strategy, developing services to patients with palliative and end of life needs and their families, auditing hospice services to identify areas of development and improvement.
• Contribute to collection and reporting of appropriate Key Performance Indicators for palliative and end of life care.

Key Contacts:

Internal Hospice Teams Care, Fundraising, Finance, Communications

External GP practices, community nursing teams, Macmillan nurses, acute services

This is a new role. The description of the role is intended as a basic guide to the responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive and may be subject to review in consultation with the post holder as the role develops

Person Specification

Motivation and Resilience

Essential

• Commitment to end of life care provision
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Demonstrates resilience when dealing with challenging situations

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Experience of community nursing and working within a multi- disciplinary team
• Experience of working without direct supervision
• Experience of delivering palliative and end of life care
• Communicates in a professional way (written and verbal)

Desirable

• Experience undertaking audits
• Working in partnership with other care providers
• Nurse Prescriber or prepared to undertake relevant training

Other Factors

Essential

• Independently mobile when travelling for work
• Able to work flexible hours

Practical Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

• State Registration on Part 1 of NMC Register

Desirable

• Palliative/ end of life qualification
• Involvement in leading project work
• Mentor qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Tynedale Hospice at Home

Address

Tynedale Hospice At Home

Anick Road

Anick Road

Hexham

Northumberland

NE46 4TU

Employer's website

https://tynedalehospice.com/ (Opens in a new tab)