Advance Care Planning Specialist Nurse

Are you passionate about providing compassionate care to individuals with palliative diagnoses and their families, and thrive in a person-centered environment where you can make a real difference in people's lives? If so, Saint Michaels Hospice has an exciting opportunity for you!

We are proud to introduce a new person-centered Advance Care Planning (ACP) service. As an Advance Care Planning Specialist Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality and experience of care for patients with palliative diagnoses and their families. You will provide support and expert advice whilst undertaking sensitive discussions with patients & relevant family members to prepare an advance care plan, ensuring every individual receives tailored support that honours their preferences and values., To support patients and relevant family members to prepare an advance care plan, this will include patients with capacity to make decisions about their future care and for those without capacity, best interests care planning about their future care will be made by involving their next of kin, relevant family/carers or appointed attorney for health and welfare. Discussions will include supporting patients with choosing their preferred place to die as far as is reasonably possible.

To complete advance care planning documents most appropriate to the patients needs & wishes. This may include advance care plans including advance statements, treatment escalation plans which may include ReSPECT documents and emergency health care plans.

Working as an autonomous practitioner using evidence-based knowledge, clinical reasoning, critical thinking and reflection to support a caseload of patients with varying levels of palliative care needs.

Provide a quality service to those identified as having a palliative diagnosis whilst working closely with those who refer into the service such as; GPs, Specialist Palliative Care Team, Specialist Nurses, acute hospital settings, care homes and internal Hospice referrals.

Sensitively communicate difficult information with patients and their families, recognising the impact of death, dying and bereavement and that their priorities and ability to communicate their wishes may vary over time.

Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just B and Saint Michaels Hospice make up registered charity North Yorkshire Hospice Care. Youll be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to people across North Yorkshire and beyond.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks being obtained including but not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. Costs of pre-employment checks will be met by the organisation.