Community Team Leader Palliative Care - London, United Kingdom - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Inner North West Division - Pembridge Specialist Palliative Care Service.

The Pembridge Hospice team practice holistic palliative care taking a multidisciplinary approach to physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of their patients and their families.

The service comprises of a community team, day hospice, outpatients and inpatient unit( currently suspended to admissions awaiting the outcome of the NWL Palliative Care Review)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our community team as Band 8aTeam Leader.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, experienced palliative care nurse to lead our team of community CNS'. You will be working with a team of very experienced nurses.

You will have access to NHS benefits including Clinical Supervision. There will be opportunities for further study and career progression.

The role is based at the Pembridge Hospice, St Charles Centre for health and Wellbeing.

We are located in North Kensington, home of the world-famous Notting Hill Carnival and an area known for its diversity and vibrant community.

The area boasts excellent transport links and buses, underground and overground routes are all within walking distance, allowing easy access to both Central and outer London areas.

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

To lead on the management of complex cases including managing a small caseload of complex patients and for providing clinical expertise to complex interventions.

To be responsible for providing highly specialist knowledge of Palliative Care interventions across a variety settings and stakeholders.

To act as a consultant to nurses and other members of the MD team on matters pertaining to specialist palliative care.

To work autonomously to provide expert Palliative Care advice to clinicians, stakeholders and the public. This will involve using evidence
- based guidelines and the development of interventions to improve Palliative Care delivery using evidence -based outcomes.

To use professional judgement and clinical expertise to independently interpret and analyse complex situations and formulate interventions according to evidence
- based practice.

To communicate highly complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to stakeholders who are may or may not engage in Smoking Cessation interventions which will result in a change to the way they deliver services.

To use highly developed communication, negotiation, motivation and behaviour change skills to facilitate engagement of target groups taking into account physical, social and psychological barriers as well as other barriers e.g.

language difficulties, hard to reach communities and health inequalities.

To use clinical judgment to incorporate other services within Palliative Care interventions where appropriate.

To provide timely and informative evaluation reports to key stakeholders.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and to ensure that own work is within professional standards and within Palliative Care clinical guidelines.

To be responsible for complying with legal and professional confidentiality guidelines at all times.

To ensure all Palliative Care programmes are based on sound assessment of local need and best practice.

To ensure that all Palliative Care interventions are developed based on project management principles and are appropriately documented.

Ensure that all records and data related to patient care is accurate and up to date.

To provide clinical cover for team members on annual leave, study leave and sickness, this will include assessing the needs of patients and families and working in collaboration with members of the MD team, where necessary.

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities.