Registered Nurse Hospital at Home

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trustis leading a bold transformation inCommunity and Palliative End of Life Careacross the county. Our vision is simple yet powerful: to ensure people nearing the end of life experience apeaceful, dignified death in the place of their choosing. As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with complex health and social care needs. Ensuring provision of a holistic nursing assessment and high quality, safe, evidence-based care to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes. This includes physical examination and detailed history taking, diagnosis of deterioration in pre-existing conditions and treatment planning. Your experience and skills should enable you to recognise that a person is deteriorating and advanced care planning might be appropriate and/or that the person is coming into the last days of life and that dying phased care is appropriate. We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability. To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.