Band 7 - Renal Supportive Care Nurse

Job summary

Providing clinical expertise, education & support for patients approaching End stage Renal disease (ESRD) to enable informed decision making when choosing a treatment option as their kidneys fail.To work in partnership with the Advanced Kidney care Matron & team, Frailty & AKCC Consultant and allied healthcare professionals in identifying patients who may benefit from the support offered. To provide educational support to ensure that all patients have a frailty score when approaching ESRD in order to identify the patients who will benefit most from this service.

To work in partnership with primary care (palliative, General practice) to ensure good links that enable smooth referral where patients choose a supportive care pathway.

To work in partnership with the Trust palliative care teams.

To collect relevant data agreed with the Medical team & Programme Lead to demonstrate the outcomes of the intervention and provide monthly updates to the Divisional Tri that can be communicated to the ICB & NHSE.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical leadership & expertise in the specialty of Renal and/or advanced/supportive decision making & planning.
• Work autonomously, demonstrating innovation & resourcefulness.
• Provide a nurse led education & decision making clinic consultation service in partnership with the Consultant Nephrologist & Geriatrician to support patient decision making when approaching end stage renal disease..
• Assessment of patients' individual needs and formulating / developing a plan of care. Monitor & evaluate this plan of care where patient has a change in decision making.
• Offer skilled emotional and psychological support and refer on to other members of the multidisciplinary team as appropriate.
• Active participation in multi-disciplinary meetings and other care providers if appropriate.
• Represents patients at multi-disciplinary meetings ensuring that their needs are assertively presented.
• Takes an active role in maintaining effective communication with all disciplines, patients and relatives.
• Ensures that all clinical and legal nursing documents are completed accurately and legibly and that their relevance is understood and confidentiality maintained in accordance with Trust policy and NMC guidelines.

About us

Welcome to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Thank you for showing an interest in working with us at Epsom and St Helier - a family of more than 7,000 colleagues.

We are truly an integrated health and care Trust. In simple terms, that means that as well as the services we provide at our acute care hospitals (Epsom in Surrey and St Helier nearby in south west London) we work with local GPs, mental health services, community providers and local authorities, with the joint aim of preventing local people from becoming unwell, and when they do, that they receive the right care, in the right place, with the right support.

So, as well as great hospital care, together we offer an increasing range of services. These include adult community health, sexual health and children's therapies. Many of these community services are run by the partnerships we host, Surrey Downs Health and Care and Sutton Health and Care.

Continuing the partnership theme, we also host and run some exceptional hospital-based services including the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Service - rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - and we also have the largest nephrology (care around kidney disease) service in the UK, that isn't co-located with a transplant service.