Clinical Nurse Specialist or Clinical Specialist AHP

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated Clinical Nurse Specialist or Allied Health Professional to join their multidisciplinary team. This role focuses on delivering exceptional pain management services across various settings, including community clinics and secure environments. Candidates will be instrumental in developing integrated care programmes and ensuring high-quality patient care. The organization values diversity and encourages flexible working arrangements to support a balanced work-life dynamic. If you are passionate about improving community health and have expertise in pain management, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements

Career Pathways

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing and planning holistic care for patients.
• Ability to develop integrated care programmes with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess and implement holistic care in relation to care planning.
• Develop integrated care programmes with service users and stakeholders.
• Lead competency frameworks and ensure high-quality care.

Skills

Pain Management

Holistic Care Planning

Integrated Care Programmes

Supervision and Staff Development

Proposal Presentation

Education

Clinical Nurse Specialist Qualification

Allied Health Professional Qualification

Job description

The Community Chronic Pain Service is a multidisciplinary team of expert chronic pain clinicians. We support people with persistent pain to develop self-management strategies, enabling them to live well. This post is suitable for a Clinical Nurse Specialist or an Allied Health Professional with an interest in pain management.

Our aim is to help individuals develop the skills needed to improve their quality of life and reduce their dependency on healthcare services and medication.

This service is delivered in a variety of settings, including face-to-face clinics, group settings, and virtually.

In addition to community clinics, you will deliver care within the secure (prison) environment. We provide our award-winning Pain Management Service in all Kent prisons; therefore, travel will be an essential part of this post.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating holistic care in relation to care planning and pathways.
2. Developing integrated care programmes in partnership with service users, commissioners, and key stakeholders.
3. Ensuring a supervision framework is in place for staff under your care and supporting staff in developing relevant competencies across staff groups.
4. Actively working as a member of the integrated team to ensure high-quality care is provided to service users.
5. Maintaining your own specialist area of competence and leading on the competency frameworks for others.
6. Synthesising information to present proposals effectively to decision-makers (including Directors and Senior Executives) in ways that facilitate understanding and influence pathways.
7. Making recommendations to decision-makers to drive forward innovative solutions, service improvements, and financial efficiencies related to prescribed care packages or projects.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we are passionate about delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve community health. To achieve this, we seek outstanding individuals who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, and excellent.

We believe that a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion enhances patient care and fosters a happier workforce. We pride ourselves on being diverse and welcome applications from individuals of varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

We collect information about your protected characteristics via our application forms. This information is not visible to shortlisting or interviewing panels unless you opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Shortlisters will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure principles of the scheme are applied.

The data we gather helps us ensure equitable access to career opportunities and supports our goal of being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working-friendly organization, we encourage you to discuss flexible working arrangements that suit both your needs and ours, without sacrificing personal or family commitments. We will support you to work flexibly in a way that benefits us both.

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For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name: Dawn Thundow
Job title: Clinical Service Manager
Email: [e-mail]