Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Specialist Palliative Care Team |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Joanne Brogan, Shelley Nothard – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | SPCT Education Facilitator |
| Placement Address | 1st Floor Chatsworth House Roach Bank Road Bury BL9 8RN |
| Placement City/Town: | Bury |
| Placement Phone | 0161 206 4354 |
| Your University Contact: | TBC |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Welcome pack.
Induction
Allocated PA/PS
Induction within 24 hours of placement starting
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
All staff have completed PARE/PA/PS training.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
SPCT service is run Monday to Friday 8-4pm
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
The Bury Community Palliative Care Nursing Team, as members of the Bury Specialist Palliative Care Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), work alongside, and in support of, statutory and voluntary health and social care services to improve the care of patients and their families with complex palliative needs.
Care is provided to adults from diagnosis to end of life, where the patient’s needs are not being met by the generic Primary Health Care Team (PHCT). Care is offered to patients in their own homes, nursing or residential homes.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Our Values :: Northern Care Alliance
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Communication and interpersonal skills
Nursing practice and decision making
Leadership, management and team working.
What resources are available to help students learning?
Opportunity to have exposure to MDT’s
Trust intranet access
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Udnar form under review
Verification of Death
Spoke Placements
District Nursing Teams
Occupational Therapy
Acute Macmillan Team
Bury Hospice Out Reach service and Inpatient Unit
Additional Information
PEF email: PEFTeam@nca.nhs.uk