Clinical Nurse Specialist - Specialist Palliative Care Team

Job summary

Are you a compassionate, skilled clinician with a passion for delivering exceptional palliative and end-of-life care? Join our dedicated Specialist Palliative Care Team - a dynamic, nurse-led service providing expert support to patients, families and staff across the hospital.

This is a rewarding and influential role where you will make a meaningful impact every single day.

Our Specialist Palliative Care Team integrates high-quality palliative and end-of-life care across the Trust. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will act as an expert resource, supporting patients with both cancer and non-cancer diagnoses through some of the most challenging moments of their lives.

You will be a visible clinical leader, role model and advocate for excellence in palliative care, working collaboratively to enhance patient experience and care outcomes across all adult areas of the RUH.

Main duties of the job

In this varied and fulfilling specialist role, you will:

• Work autonomously to assess palliative and end-of-life care patients, including history taking, holistic assessment, planning care and evaluating outcomes.
• Provide expert advice and support to patients, families and multidisciplinary teams
• Lead and contribute to education for staff, promoting high standards of palliative and end-of-life care practice.
• Support quality improvement initiatives, helping drive service development and best practice.
• Collaborate withSpecialist Palliative Care Team and support the Lead Nurse in service delivery.
• Work across adult clinical areas where patients with palliative needs are supported.
• Participate in our 7-day Specialist Palliative Care service, helping ensure consistent support.
• Perform advanced clinical skills in assessment of palliative care or end of life care patients including history taking, holistic clinical assessment, advising on management plan and evaluation of care.
• Put quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised and person-centred care.
• Monitor and review the effectiveness of interventions with patientS & modify this to meet the changing needs and established goals of care.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence- based practice and national & practice protocols & legislation within scope of practice.

About us

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in thetop 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.