Clinical Nurse Specialist - Development Role

NHS; Crawley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Clinical Nurse Specialist to enhance palliative care services in the community. This role entails working closely with a skilled team to improve the quality of life for patients at the end of life, providing both in-person and telephonic support, and ensuring comprehensive care delivery. Candidates should possess NMC registration and relevant palliative care experience while demonstrating leadership skills and emotional resilience.

Qualifications

• Evidence of working within palliative care.
• Experience caring for dying people.
• Experience of audit and clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Join a team delivering specialist palliative care.
• Provide 7-day coverage, including scheduled visits.
• Contribute towards a positive team working environment.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Emotional resilience

Autonomy

Education

Registered Nurse with current NMC registration

Independent prescriber (or willingness to undertake)

Job description

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Development Role

Pleaseapply for this vacancy via the St Catherines Hospice Website where you can finda detailed Job Description.

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Main duties of the job

Are you passionate about palliative care nursing? This is an exciting opportunitytogaintheknowledge and skills required to become aCommunity Clinical Nurse Specialist in PEOLC.You will join our talented team, working alongside specialists in PalliativeCare, to help make a positive difference in the Community.

About us

Working as part of a supportive and integrated clinical team,covering East Surrey and West Sussex, you will make a difference to local patients and their families by offering expert advice and care seven days a week including face to face scheduled visits and telephone support with occasional out of hours visits. Working alongside primary care network colleagues you will deliver specialist palliative care to people at the end of life, youll have shared clinical responsibility for patients referred to the hospice, supported by our community manager and the medical team.

Job responsibilities

Youll have the passion to always improve and advance and be happy to participate in a rota system with your team colleagues to provide 7 days a week cover. This makes sure there is always someone available on our telephone line to support our patients and their families. Youll also contribute to a positive working environment with an emphasis on teamwork and cooperation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of working within palliative care or similar (I)
• Experience of working as a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and evidence of recent CPD (I)
• Clean UK Driving Licence and use of own vehicle
• Leadership experience (I)
• Physical assessment skills (or willingness to undertake) (I)
• Independent prescriber (or willingness to undertake). (I)

Experience

• Experience of caring for dying people (Ap)
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with good command of spoken English and numeracy skills. (Ap and test)
• Understanding of clinical governance including patient safety (I)
• Confident in use of electronic records
• Able to confidently use computer packages such as PowerPoint, Word etc
• Experience of audit, standard setting and/or clinical governance
• Knowledge of symptom control towards the end of life (I)
• Demonstrate understanding of current professional nursing issues relating to palliative and end of life care
• Community Nursing experience

Attitude and Behaviours

• Commitment to develop into a clinical nurse specialist within given timescales and against the standards required
• Demonstrates a passion to become a Clinical Nurse Specialist in palliative and end of life care within a time bound period
• Emotional resilience to manage excessive exposure to those with life limiting illnesses and families in distress
• Desire to develop clinical and leadership skills, including promoting collaborative working.
• Caring, kind, empathetic and compassionate.
• Ability to use initiative, work autonomously and prioritise workload.
• Awareness of the need for sensitivity, compassion and confidentiality and ability to cope with sensitive issues.
• Ability to make decisions in complex situations across a range of situations
• Positive change agent, enthusiastic, assertive and positive attitude

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.