Community Palliative Response Senior Nurse Overnight inWatford inWatford PUBLISHED 11 DEC 2023

 PERMANENT 
To follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to medicine management.

To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers / families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare rights and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement needs, using a variety of tools to support the process.

To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs, including ongoing referrals to other services as required.

To be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that are responsive to the individual patients requirements.

To be able to communicate highly sensitive information, ensuring patients and their families / carers are adequately supported. To be able to demonstrate through electronic and paper documentation and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.

To be responsible in leading on initial holistic assessments and reviews of care when required and discharge planning from service.

To be able to communicate effectively to own team, extended team and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings / home.

To follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to medicine management. On identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.

To signpost and inform patients and their families / carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.

Attend relevant MDT meetings as appropriate.

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients home environment including, as required, in care homes. Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.

Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.

Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own homes to provide palliative and end of life care.

To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever-changing needs.

To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.

As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.

Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.

As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the lone worker policy and procedure requirements.

To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers / families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare rights and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement needs, using a variety of tools to support the process.

To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs, including ongoing referrals to other services as required.

To be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that are responsive to the individual patients requirements.

To be able to communicate highly sensitive information, ensuring patients and their families / carers are adequately supported. To be able to demonstrate through electronic and paper documentation and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.

To be responsible in leading on initial holistic assessments and reviews of care when required and discharge planning from service.

To be able to communicate effectively to own team, extended team and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings / home.

To follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to medicine management. On identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.

To signpost and inform patients and their families / carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.

Attend relevant MDT meetings as appropriate.

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients home environment including, as required, in care homes. Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.

Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.

Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own homes to provide palliative and end of life care.

To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever-changing needs.

To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.

As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.

Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.

As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the lone worker policy and procedure requirements.



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