Role Overview
We have a great opportunity for a nurse who is passionate about palliative and end of life care to join our team as Hospital Palliative Care Nurse based at Ipswich Hospital.
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join our motivated palliative care team providing a specialist palliative care service to patients with life limiting illnesses.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist palliative care service to patients with life limiting illnesses.
* Work Monday to Friday with excellent communication and interpersonal skills; act as an autonomous practitioner part of the multidisciplinary team.
* Develop career in palliative care, support progression, regular learning, teaching sessions with colleagues, national research projects, local hospice.
* Participate in the development of specialist palliative care services within the hospital.
* Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing an advisory, educational and supportive service to all staff caring for patients whose illness is not responsive to curative treatment.
* Be responsible for providing information and support to a caseload of palliative care patients trust‑wide.
* Accept continuing responsibility for the development of the palliative care nursing service ensuring it meets national recommendations and Improving Outcomes Guidance as it is published.
What We Offer
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what is widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
How to Apply
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
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