Overview of Role To ensure the highest standards of individualised care for patients with life threatening diseases including providing support to their families and carers in a safe, friendly and efficient environment. To communicate with patients, families and carers in a sensitive and empathetic way maintaining effective communication with multi-disciplinary team members. To work part of a multi professional team with professional shared learning under the supervision and guidance of nurses and medical teams. Although based on our Inpatient Unit, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other teams to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care (e.g. Community Setting and Hazel Centre) Key Tasks To provide the highest standards of care to patients. To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care. Ensure that you always act in the patients best interests, taking personal responsibility for actions and decisions taken. Provide a holistic approach to all care provisions provided that is both sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs. To provide out of hours specialist advice by telephone to patients, carers and allied professionals as required, alerting them to any significant matters. Give and receive regular reposts on the progress of patients, reporting immediately any changes in the patients condition to the senior nurse/medical personnel as duty as required. ~~~Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full duties and responsibilities of this role~~~