Clinical Nurse Specialist in London inLondon PUBLISHED WED 12 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

We are delighted to offer an opportunity to work with in the Palliative care team at Kings College hospital. We are seeking a dynamic, innovative and a motivated band 7 specialist palliative care nurse. This post has been created due to upcoming maternity leave. There may be an opportunity to offer a developmental band 6 role for applications that do not meet the full specification (depending on suitable experience).

The palliative care team is an advisory service to patients with palliative care needs and promotes excellence in end of life care across the Trust. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic individual who will contribute to the development of this dynamic multi-professional team and build on partnerships across the locality. The post will sit within a collaborative network across our Clinical Academic Group within King's Health Partners. Opportunities exist to be involved in research via established links with the Cicely Saunders Institute.

• To work as a clinical nurse specialist and effectively deliver an expert nursing service within the multi-professional palliative care team on the Denmark Hill site, based within the Cicely Saunders Institute
• To manage a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs
• Participate in providing a seven-day face to face service.
• To assist in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines
• To establish and maintain clear lines of communication within palliative care to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary management of patients
• To link with other palliative care and primary care providers to facilitate the care in the community and minimize the challenges of care transition.
• To act as a role model to other nurses and support the delivery of palliative care education within the Trust
• To engage in the team's governance and service development program

Particular emphasis is put at Kings on the need to ensure that all staff recognize their responsibility to deliver services in a high quality, courteous, patient focused manner maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.

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Main Duties and ResponsibilitiesClinical Practice

• To provide specialist nursing services for people with specialist palliative care needs,including their families and significant others.
• To accept responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurateplan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues andrecommendations made and where appropriate prescribe needed medications under aclear scope of practice.
• Take responsibility for a patient caseload and ensure clear communication anddocumentation.
• To support Multidisciplinary team (MDT) processes and communication to ensureseamless patient care.
• To consider the appropriateness of patients for more detailed multidisciplinary reviewand discussion at MDT/case review meetings.
• To liaise with local community, social services, paramedics and voluntary organisationsin order to develop existing services for clients, carers and health professionals
• Ensure all patients receive appropriate follow-up and relevant information to enable aninformed choice about treatment and future care
• Attend to patients within the hospital where there is an identified specialist palliative careneed.
• To spread knowledge and support the implementation of the 5 priorities for the care ofthe dying person across the hospital with the support of the practice development nurse.
• To be responsible for identifying and developing clinical protocols and strategies toenhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care whilst ensuring equity ofaccess to the service.
• To actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experience of the current service and suggestions for improvements.
• To liaise with discharge coordinators and ward staff to ensure appropriate and timelydischarge/follow-up arrangement in place for patients
• To participate in relevant forums at Care Group, Trust, ICB, Cancer Network or National/International Level to represent the service perspective.
• To ensure all care is given in accordance with agreed protocols and guidelines
• To produce and provide all patients and relatives / carers with relevant and accessible written information regarding palliative care in accordance with Trust standard.