Advance Your Compassionate Career: End of Life Care Nurse
Do you possess exceptional communication skills & are driven to ensure every patient experiences dignified, high-quality End of Life Care?
We're seeking a highly motivated & experienced clinician to join our End of Life Care Team in Merton as a Community End of Life Care Nurse. This is a unique opportunity to shape quality palliative care across our community.
Why This Role Is Unique And Impactful
- Pivotal Role in Quality: This isn't just clinical delivery, it's about facilitation, mentorship, and policy implementation. You'll be an essential link, working collaboratively to embed best practice & Coordinated Care across primary care, social services & care homes.
- Expert Autonomy: While supported by the Band 7 Specialist Nurse, you'll work with a moderate degree of autonomy, utilising your clinical judgement & discretion to provide direct advice & mentorship to front-line staff caring for dying patients.
- Strategic & Clinical Development: This post offers an immediate chance to develop your clinical leadership & strategic skills. You'll be instrumental in managing a patient caseload to facilitate best practice & collecting data to support key performance indicators (KPIs) for End of Life Care.
- Collaborative Environment: You'll be a key partner across the Merton community, working closely with GPs, other specialist nurses, case management teams & the voluntary sector to ensure service sustainability.
If You Possess
- Significant experience and passion for palliative or end-of-life care.
- A proven ability to communicate clearly, succinctly, and with genuine empathy.
- The commitment to working autonomously and driving patient-centred, evidence-based care.
We want to hear from you. This is your chance to make a profound difference at the most critical time for patients and their families.
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We Can Offer You
- A comprehensive induction into the community service, followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us, please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kim Smith Job title: End of Life and Dementia Clinical Lead Email address: kim.smith30@nhs.net Telephone number: 07748 655149
