Overview
Are you a registered nurse seeking an opportunity to work as a Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse in domiciliary and care home settings?
We are looking for an experienced nurse with a passion for Palliative Care to join our community Specialist Palliative Care service across the Bradford area.
In this role, you will provide clinical case management to patients nearing the end of life, supporting them in their own homes or care homes. You’ll focus on improving their health and well-being, offering clinical assessments and treatments to ensure comfort and dignity at the end of life. By doing so, you will help reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, ease the demand on GP services, and contribute to delivering timely, efficient, and high-quality care.
This position offers both rewarding and challenging experiences, giving you the chance to build valuable networks while expanding your knowledge and skills.
This is a unique opportunity to enhance your expertise in Palliative Care, supported by colleagues, the Medical Lead, and Operational Managers. Our commitment to you is to support your development goals and aspirations, backed by our exceptional leadership and development team. Together, we’ll help you achieve your best.
Responsibilities
* Assessing, planning, and providing specialist care and support to individuals with life-limiting illnesses, including end-of-life care.
* Collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team, working alongside colleagues, patients, caregivers, and other health and social care professionals, as well as statutory, voluntary, and independent organizations, to optimize patient management.
* Ensuring adherence to statutory legislation and local policies relating to discharge planning and palliative care.
* Managing your own caseload autonomously and providing face-to-face services seven days a week.
* Acting as a resource, educator, and advocate for patients, their families, and healthcare professionals.
* Contributing to staff education initiatives.
* Participating in audit activities to support continuous improvement.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with experience in palliative or end-of-life care.
* Ability to work autonomously and manage a caseload in community settings (domiciliary and care homes).
* Strong collaborative and communication skills to work with multidisciplinary teams and with patients and families.
* Flexibility to provide seven-day-a-week face-to-face services where required.
Benefits
* We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Plus many more benefits.
* We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
* BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
"Initial details": for further details / informal visits contact: Name: Carla Smith Job title: Operational Lead Palliative District Nurse Teams Email address: carla.smith2@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07860 749694
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