Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist – Community Team
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Clinical Nurse Specialist (Band 7)
We are a patient-centred charity that delivers palliative and end of life care to thousands of people each year with advanced life-limiting illnesses who live in Northwest Surrey, also providing support to their careers and families inpatient homes, in care or nursing homes or through its In-Patient Unit in the Hospice, as well as through the Bradbury Wellbeing Centre.
You will, therefore, be joining a passionate and dedicated team of professionals that make a real difference to the families across Surrey community.
” A beautiful setting, warm friendly staff and colleagues, and the gratitude of the patient’s and their families fuel my energies to keep going with a challenging role. What we do is not easy but it’s very worthwhile”
Clinical Colleague
A successful Clinical Nurse Specialist will be:
- To provide specialist knowledge and expertise in caring for patients with life limiting illness and to disseminate such knowledge to the healthcare team.
- To independently manage own caseload of patients and associated responsibilities.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of the patient’s care.
- To provide symptom control, social, emotional, and spiritual care for the patient, family and carers.
- To provide supportive care to patients, their families, and carers.
- To monitor patients on an ongoing basis, to evaluate outcomes and adjust care plans to ensure optimum co-ordination and delivery of care.
- To deliver high standards of care directly and assist in the management of junior staff.
- To develop and maintain effective relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure collaborative working for the benefit of patient care.
A successful candidate will have :
- Registered Nurse
- Relevant post-registration courses
- Palliative care qualification
- 1st level degree or masters course
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Management/leadership course
- Mentorship/teaching qualification
- UK Registration
- 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.
Previous experience in a similar role is advantageous, but not limiting in this position.
Clinical Staff Benefits
We are passionate about our colleagues’ careers. Along with our commitment to provide every colleague with a personal development plan to achieve their vocational goals, we provide the following industry leading benefits:
Annual Leave:27 days rising to 29 days after five years’ service, rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service. If 10 years NHS service 33 days are granted.
Flexible Working: We fully support flexible working opportunities including working part time depending on the role.
Free Parking:Free parking is available.
Discounted Complementary Therapies:Our Wellbeing Team offer discounted therapies to all members of staff including massages and reflexology and Staff Wellbeing Days.
Blue Light Discount Card:Staff can apply for a Blue Light card that offers discounts across 15,000 retailers.
On Site Café:Our Garden Café based at the Hospice in Goldsworth Park offers a range of hot and cold food options including sandwiches and jacket potatoes. Hot and cold drinks and snacks with a discount offered to all members of staff.