Nurse Consultant

Shape the future of supportive Palliative Care in East Kent. Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for holistic, patient-centred care? Pilgrims Hospices are seeking Nurse Consultants to join our senior clinical leadership team. In this pivotal role, you'll have the autonomy to lead service development across both in-patient and community settings, influence strategic decisions, and deliver exceptional care to patients and families - making a lasting impact every day. You'll work alongside leading Consultants in Palliative Medicine, with access to advanced learning and development opportunities.

Your expertise will help us deliver our vision: a community where people with life-limiting illnesses are supported to live well in comfort and with dignity until their final moments and support their loved ones at times most needed.

To be professionally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy in line with local/national policy and guidance and the NMC Code. To work as a Nurse Consultant using advanced clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, prescribing, planning, and evaluating interventions for patients with complex presentations. To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on pain and symptom management, psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical decisions at the end of life and to work in partnership with a range of health professionals to improve their skills in these areas. Develop and conduct skilled clinical intervention with patients with palliative care needs, assessing and addressing issues such as quality of life, futility, prognosis, withdrawing and withholding treatment and end of life decision making within an ethical framework. To undertake complex and sensitive holistic care assessments and plan, implement and evaluate care utilising advanced communication skills. Please refer to attached job description for full scope of role.