Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Crawley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading palliative care organization is seeking an experienced clinician to join their dedicated team. The successful candidate will deliver specialist palliative care, develop care plans, and support both patients and families. Ideal candidates will have a master's degree in palliative care and a strong commitment to professional development. This role requires excellent communication and leadership skills, as well as resilience in a challenging environment. Join us in making a meaningful impact on the lives of those facing end-of-life challenges.

Qualifications

• Substantial post registration experience in palliative care.
• Ability to practice independently at a senior level.
• Commitment to continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert support to patients and families.
• Develop care plans and conduct individual assessments.
• Teach and develop others in the field of palliative care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Resilience

Compassion

Diplomacy

Education

Masters degree in palliative care or similar

Advanced physical assessment qualification

Teaching qualification

Job description

Please apply for this vacancy via the St Catherines Hospice Website where you can find a detailed Job Description.

Please copy and paste the information below into your search engine and this will take you directly to this vacancy on our website:

https://stcatherineshospice.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=fbe390e4-f425-4c94-85d9-68aa6d5a697e

Main duties of the job

Are you an experienced clinician with a passion for delivering specialist palliative care? Would you find it rewarding to provide expert support to patients and families working independently and collaboratively with our talented community team.

About us

When you join St Catherines, you'll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: that will be here for you through the joyful memories, final goodbyes and moments after. If that sounds like something you'd find fulfilling, please apply today.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will be a passionate leader with sound knowledge of end of life care, confidence in care planning and individual assessments. With computer literacy and a resilient and compassionate approach.

If you have experience teaching and developing others, the ability to listen, plan and communicate and hold strong quality and governance awareness, we would love to hear from you!

Person Specification

Attitude and Behaviours

• Ability to effectively manage self and teams
• A positive attitude to all aspects of work including supporting and embracing change and managing uncertain situations
• Quality focused 'customer care' ethos
• Confident communicator and decision maker
• Ability to work on own initiative, independently and as part of a team
• Confident and self aware of own limitations and professional boundaries
• Resilient practitioner with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to foster positive relationships
• High standard of diplomacy, integrity and reliability
• Highly resilient practitioner
• Routinely demonstrates integrity and emotional intelligence
• Professional, confident and compassionate approach to work and people
• Ability to travel independently throughout the locality and access to suitable vehicle for business purposes
• Demonstrable commitment to St Catherine's vision, mission and values.
• Proactive, influential and motivational colleague and leader

Qualifications

• Evidence of continued professional development related to this position
• Advanced physical assessment qualification or willingness to undertake
• Independent prescriber or willingness to undertake
• Sound knowledge of palliative and end of life topics and confidence to practice within the role
• Masters degree in palliative care or similar, or willingness to undertake modules towards achieving
• Degree/degree modules in leadership/management
• Teaching qualification
• Practice assessor and supervisor
• Research experience

Experience

• Substantial post registration experience and expertise in palliative care
• Knowledge of disease processes at the end of life
• Advanced physical and risk assessment skills
• Comprehensive and demonstrable individualised assessment, care planning with advance care planning experience
• Demonstrable advanced communication skills
• Ability to work independently at a senior level and as part of community and extended statutory teams
• Sound community awareness
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate in writing, in person and by telephone
• Listening, negotiating and influencing skills
• Awareness of quality and governance processes
• Experience of developing and teaching others both formal and informal
• Experience of delivering formal education
• Experience of contributing to the development of governance frameworks
• Experience of working with care homes
• Experience of working with people living with dementia and frailty
• A knowledge of hospice and national initiatives relating to palliative care
• Prescribing and medication recommending experience in palliative symptom control and end of life care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.