Senior Staff Nurse Supportive Care Team (Hospice at Home) - Blackburn

Actively engage with primary and community care colleagues to identify those individuals in the last 12 months of life, raise awareness of and access to hospice services, increase opportunities for advance care planning and work to maximise patient independence, self-care and autonomy Provide responsive assessment and care planning to support early discharge from hospital/hospice and/or prevent avoidable admissions Build on the assessment and care planning of community nursing providers to enable patients to remain in their preferred place of care/death Effectively manage risk on a planned and responsive basis, escalating urgent/emergency situations as they arise Work in collaboration with those involved in a persons care including family/informal carers, to prevent crisis development and enable the person to remain in their own home in keeping with individual preferences and where admission avoidance is possible Deliver high quality person-centred care for those referred to the service with palliative/end of life care needs Provide support and supervision for the work/development of team members including for example Health Care Assistants, volunteers and those on placement including student nurses Ensure medicines are managed and administered in accordance with all internal policies, standard operating procedures and legislation related to the management of controlled drugs Ensure that patient records are completed accurately and in-line with hospice policy and professional standards Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships with the multi-professional/multi-agency team Verify death for patients on the caseload, following procedures and best practice guidance for care after death and liaising with families, carers and others involved in care as appropriate Contribute and/or lead on the provision of education/development opportunities within own area of knowledge and training