Hospice Community Clinical Nurse Specialist

St Elizabeth Hospice; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A renowned hospice organization in Ipswich seeks a Hospice Community Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide expert palliative care. Your role involves offering holistic assessments, managing complex patient needs, and guiding families through challenging times. Ideal candidates must possess strong palliative care experience, advanced communication skills, and relevant nursing qualifications. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of patients and their families within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Life Cover

Cycle to Work Scheme

Occupational Sick Pay

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience in palliative care, ideally Band 6 or above.
• Experience in community health settings and patient assessment.
• Advanced communication and counselling skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist palliative care advice to patients and families.
• Conduct holistic assessments and develop care plans.
• Manage reactive patient needs through the OneCall service.

Skills

Palliative care experience

Advanced communication skills

Pain and symptom management

Clinical leadership

Education

Level 6 and/or Level 7 post registration education in palliative care

First level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration

Job description

Hospice Community Clinical Nurse Specialist

Are you an enthusiastic Registered Nurse who wants to give the bestpossible care? Have you thought about a career in SpecialistPalliative Care at St Elizabeth Hospice?

St Elizabeth Hospice is an independentcharity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, GreatYarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limitingillness. Our most recent CareQuality Commission report rated the hospice as Outstanding.

Established in 1989, the hospice hasbuilt a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the communityit serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose andmake life liveable. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients andtheir families.

We areseeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join the Reactive Service within ourCommunity Nursing Team on a permanent basis.You will provide specialist palliative care advice andsupport to patients in the East Suffolk area working at an enhanced level ofpractice to manage patients in complex, challenging and changing situations andenvironments.

If you would like an opportunity to find out moreabout working at the hospice and how it can fit your own career aspirations, werecommend an informal visit/discussion prior to you completing yourapplication.

Main duties of the job

To thrive in this role, you will needto demonstrate experience in influencingthe holistic care of patients and carers with end of life and specialistpalliative care needs. This is a chanceto make a real difference to peoples lives.

The idealcandidate will possess skills and capabilities across all four pillars ofnursing: clinical practice, education, research and leadership and will berequired to function to a high level of autonomy within specialist palliativecare.

Please notethat we haveaflexible workforce policy which means that employees will be deployed in otherareas when there is the need to do so. This benefits service users andemployees.

Salary: £47,810.00 - £54,710.00 - Band 7 (will consider band 6)

Hours:Parttime 23 or 34.5 hours per week. 11.5hour shifts Monday to Sunday. Day shifts07:30 to 20:00 and night shifts 19:30 to 08:00.

About us

The hospices work is centred on theindividual's needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed;whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital orin the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families viathe In-Patient Unit, the Community Care Unit including outpatients clinics,home visits from the Community Nursing, Medical and Therapy Teams, the OneCall24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support.

The hospice offers a generous benefitpackage, including:

• 27days annual leave entitlement
• LifeCover
• Cycleto Work Scheme
• CarLeasing Scheme
• HealthService Discounts
• OccupationalSick Pay
• BlueLight Card
• EmployeeAssistance Programme

St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguardingand protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has azero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. Assuch, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, includingthe disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range ofrobust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across thehospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding trainingto equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond topotential risks.

Job responsibilities

JOBSUMMARY

To work at anenhanced level of practice to manage community patients in complex, challengingand changing situations and environments, seeking further guidance when theboundary of competence is reached.

Will possess skillsand capabilities across all four pillars of nursing: clinical practice,education, research and leadership. Required to function to a high level ofautonomy within specialist palliative care.

KEYACCOUNTABILITIES

To undertake in-depthholistic assessments of patients with palliative care needs, regardless oftheir diagnosis and plan care to meet patient outcomes.

To provide information,advice, psychological and spiritual care to patients, their families andcarers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate healthcareprofessionals in the Hospice, Hospital and community.

Responsiblefor managing the reactive work via the OneCall service, ensuring a timely andappropriate response to all clinical calls.

Work in acollaborative, compassionate way, promoting equality, respecting diversity, andensuring inclusivity, taking responsibility for challenging behaviour that doesnot align with these values.

Apply clinicalreasoning to individual presentations and complex situations, utilisinginformation from different sources to make timely, appropriate, andevidence-based judgements.

Optimise safety throughassessment and management of risk.

Use advanced communication skills indelivering highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguouslywith staff, patients, families and professionals by face to face, telephoneand/or electronic means. This may bewhere there are barriers to understanding.

Provide skilled and expert palliativenursing interventions, working closely with medical and other colleagues toensure a coordinated and effective service across boundaries of inpatient,community and outpatients and across professionals, carrying out reactivevisits as clinically indicated.

Maintain and develop workingrelationships with community and hospital colleagues ensuring effectivecommunication so enhancing patient care.

Involve patients,families, and carers in co-production of and making informed decisionsregarding strategies to manage their own health and wellbeing.

Participate in the developmentand updating of practice policies/guidelines and procedures using high-qualitycontemporary evidence-based resources.

Participate in the evaluationof significant events, capturing the learning from these experiences to improvepatient care and service delivery.

Identify own personaldevelopment needs, proactively seek feedback, and take effective action toaddress them using a mix of strategies.

Share knowledge,experience and expertise with nurses and others at all levels, throughstrategies such as formal and informal teaching, facilitated reflectivepractice, skills supervision, coaching, mentoring and preceptorship.

Participate in thesupervision, evaluation and assessment of nurses aspiring to work at anenhanced level acting as the line manager for allocated Senior RegisteredNurses.

Undertake activitiesthat monitor and improve the effectiveness, impact, and value of own and otherswork.

Use a wide range ofcontemporary high-quality data, research, evidence based professional practice,and valid and reliable tools and techniques, to proactively evaluate andsustainably improve current ways of working.

Display self-leadershipby managing own workload and competing demands.

Support innovation andservice development utilising evidence-based approaches to optimise effective,sustainable change

Work within currentevidence-based policies, processes, standards, and governance systems, alertingothers when revisions are needed to ensure they remain fit for purpose.

Reflect on andcontribute to improving ways of working and supporting a culture of safety

Promotea safeguarding is everyones business culture, acting as a safeguarding deputyif required.

Ensure adherence with relevant Infection Preventionand Control policies and procedures, raising any risks to the IPC group / servicelead.

Lead and participate in research,integrating research-based evidence in all aspects of specialist palliativecare into clinical practice

Contribute to the audit programme,taking a lead role in specialist palliative nursing audits.

Deputise for the Community Service Leadas requested.

Keep abreast of national policy onpalliative and end of life nursing strategy to use as a framework for practicedevelopment.

Toupdate own specialist skills and knowledge in cancer and palliative care,through continuous professional development.

General

Where you are a member of a professional bodyyou are required to conform to the professional standards set by that body. Youare required to ensure your registration is current and practice continuousprofessional development.

Because of the special nature of the Hospice and its work,the post holder may on occasion be asked to undertake other duties to helpmaintain our high standard of care.

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT NECESSARILY EXHAUSTIVE AND MAYBE SUBJECT TO REVIEW BY THE DIRECTOR OF CARE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE POSTHOLDER.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant post registration experience including proven palliative care / Oncology experience at a Band 6 or above, or equivalent level
• Experienced in assessing patient needs that may be complex and subject to change
• Knowledge of the national palliative care agenda
• Have an understanding of safeguarding principles and be able to apply these within everyday practice.
• Experience of working in the community
• Previous experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures

Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Level 6 and / or level 7 post registration education in palliative care or related qualification.
• Advanced communication course
• Non -Medical Prescribing
• Counselling qualification

Specific Skills

• Expert current knowledge of pain and symptom management, which underpins theory, usually gained through recent clinical practice at a senior level.
• Ability to identify psychological or spiritual distress requiring referral to other specialist services.
• Evidence of counselling skills and practical application.
• Evidence of ability to interact and influence at all levels within the organisation.
• Commitment to clinical excellence through regular professional updating.
• Computer literacy sufficient to input patient records and work efficiently and effectively.
• Able to prioritise and manage own time effectively. time manage work.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Smart personal presentation, appropriate to the role.
• Can lead and develop team working.
• Car driver, holding a current valid driving licence.
• Active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to work flexibly to the needs of the service.
• Proven personal coping strategies in dealing with emotionally loaded situations.

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.