Macmillan Associate Specialist Palliative Care

The post holder will: • Under the supervision of the Specialist Palliative Care service, manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs. • Provide palliative care advice on symptom control, disease treatments, psychological and social issues to support a high standard of care to patients with complex needs. • Work collaboratively to ensure that patients with specialist palliative care needs and their carers are met, involving other members of the Palliative Care Multi-disciplinary Team as appropriate. • Attend and contribute to the palliative care weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting maintaining effective communication across the spectrum of professional carers. • Use effective and empathic advanced communication skills to support patients and carers when they are dealing with uncertainty and coping with bad news. • Work with other members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team to develop and provide appropriate training and education for the multi-disciplinary team and other healthcare professionals that improves the quality of palliative care provision. • Work with other members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team to implement initiatives such as local and national guidance that improve the quality of palliative care. • Ensure own professional development in line with appraisal and competency framework. • Maintain contemporaneous electronic and written record keeping of patient care records. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16. Job description Job responsibilities The post holder will: • Under the supervision of the Specialist Palliative Care service, manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs. • Provide palliative care advice on symptom control, disease treatments, psychological and social issues to support a high standard of care to patients with complex needs. • Work collaboratively to ensure that patients with specialist palliative care needs and their carers are met, involving other members of the Palliative Care Multi-disciplinary Team as appropriate. • Attend and contribute to the palliative care weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting maintaining effective communication across the spectrum of professional carers. • Use effective and empathic advanced communication skills to support patients and carers when they are dealing with uncertainty and coping with bad news. • Work with other members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team to develop and provide appropriate training and education for the multi-disciplinary team and other healthcare professionals that improves the quality of palliative care provision. • Work with other members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team to implement initiatives such as local and national guidance that improve the quality of palliative care. • Ensure own professional development in line with appraisal and competency framework. • Maintain contemporaneous electronic and written record keeping of patient care records. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.