Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Please see attached full job description and person specification - below is a summary of key duties.

1. Lead in specialist area of practice, providing expert professional advice to others across the Trust within agreed guidelines and protocols, including generalist colleagues and other professional groups when required.

2. Perform comprehensive specialist assessment of community patients, plan, treat and evaluate care within agreed guidelines and protocols according to evidence-based practice and changing health needs, including prescribing medication.

3. Communicate complex specialist information to generalist colleagues and others. Refer patients to appropriate clinicians, in the Trust or externally, within agreed guidelines and protocols, according to assessment of patient need and evidence-based decision.

4. Prioritise patient care, supervising and allocating ones own workload, monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of care, including discharge of patients, or referring on, within agreed guidelines and protocols.

5. Perform specialist clinical skills in the treatment and overall management of patient care, including requesting and interpreting investigations, within agreed guidelines and protocols.

6. Provide a comprehensive specialist service, accepting accountability and responsibility for the management and effectiveness of the community service on a day-to-day basis.

7. Collect, collate, evaluate and report on information, including communicating detailed information to clinical colleagues and others, maintaining accurate patient records and documentation.

8. Promote patient and public involvement in the improvement of services, and involve patients and carers/relative in the planning and delivery of their care.

9. Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to patient flow, care pathways and discharge arrangements.

10. Analyse and act on information to proactively manage and maintain NHS targets and standards.