Weldmar Community Nurse - Bank Contract in Dorchester

We are looking for a Weldmar Community Nurse to join our multi-skilled Specialist Hospice at Home Service on a bank contract.

Main duties of the job:

• You will be working flexibly and collaboratively with the multi-skilled team, other clinical colleagues and external agencies, as and when required.
• You will be integral to ensuring an agile and responsive service based on patient needs in the West, South and North Dorset.
• You will see patients, carers and families benefiting from receiving care most appropriate to them, as determined on a daily basis.
• You will use your significant post registration experience as a registered nurse to complete ongoing assessments of our patients to ensure the delivery of quality holistic evidence-based palliative care.
• You will have the time to assess the complex needs of our patients and their loved ones, and to take steps which will make a positive difference to them when it matters most.
• You will also play a key role in providing advice, coaching and guidance to your colleagues within the hub, as well as to other health professionals ensuring the delivery of outstanding end of life care in the community.

About us:

Weldmar Hospicecare provides specialist care for adults in Dorset who have a life limiting illness, and support for their loved ones. We are dedicated to fostering a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion across all aspects of our organisation.

Job responsibilities:

The role of the Weldmar Community Nurse is to work collaboratively with all members of the Specialist Hospice at Home team, working closely with colleagues within the hub and with primary care teams and community hospitals, providing advice and guidance to patients, carers, and professionals in other agencies to ensure the delivery of high-quality integrated services and be responsive and agile in responding to needs of patients. The role encompasses clinical, advisory, therapeutic and education functions.

The Weldmar Community Nurse will be based within a Specialist Hospice at Home hub. To practice evidence-based expert palliative and end of life care, holding a flexible corporate caseload under the guidance of the Weldmar Community Nurse Specialist. To provide guidance, education, mentorship and support to colleagues within the hub and other health care professionals internally and externally in order to develop and improve palliative care practice. Act as a resource using clinical knowledge and skills for advice, guidance and support to Health Care Assistants and Assistant Practitioners within the Specialist Hospice at Home team. Undertake regular line management with the service Assistant Practitioner and Health Care Assistant team, as per policy and in line with the needs of the individual employee. To participate in audit and support service and practice development. To be an integral part of the specialist hospice at home service, responding to patients' needs as determined on a daily basis. To provide support to patients and families when the patient is entering end of life. To promote the use of AIRMID and video technology.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Significant post registration experience within one or more relevant clinical fields such as end of life, palliative care, life limiting, community nursing etc.
• Minimum of one year relevant palliative care or other clinical speciality with significant palliative care input.
• Experience of providing coaching, guidance and support within a clinical environment.

Skills and Abilities:

• Holistic assessment skills for the health and wellbeing of patients with a life limiting/palliative diagnosis and their families.
• Able to work out in the community without direct supervision.
• Analytic and creative thinking skills and ability to apply these to all areas of own work e.g. patient assessment, education provision, service development.
• Written communication skills, including ability to write up patient assessments, draft reports and educational materials.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to provide advice, guidance, coaching and education and to influence change.
• Ability to plan and organise own workload with varied complexity.
• Ability to work alone but also as part of a multi-professional team.
• Good time management, prioritisation and organisational ability.
• IT competency with email, internet, Word and PowerPoint.
• To be flexible and demonstrate the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the service.
• Work positively with all members of the Specialist Hospice at Home team.

Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse.
• Post registration qualification in palliative care/cancer/other life limiting conditions at diploma/degree level.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Understanding of end-of-life care issues.
• Knowledge of the pathology of disease processes for life limiting illnesses.
• Knowledge and understanding of the management of complex symptoms.
• Underpinning knowledge of the end-of-life tools which improve patient care i.e. Gold Standards Framework, ACP.
• Principles of clinical supervision and reflective practice.
• Knowledge of principles of research and audit.
• Understanding of clinical governance.
• Awareness of health and social care agendas.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.