- Significant post registration experience at Band 5 or equivalent and experience within a relevant speciality
- Audit & Standard setting
- Current issues in healthcare
- Standards of professional practice
- Understanding of the local and national nursing agenda
- Understanding of relevant National Service Frameworks (if appropriate)
- Understanding of organisational structures
- Awareness of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
- Capable of lateral thinking
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Innovator
- Motivator
- Assertiveness
- Flexibility, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking
- Team Player
- Understanding of research based practice/research conscious
- Uses initiative to resolve issues within their own control
- Ability to act professionally at all times
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise own and others
- workload
- Communication
- Teaching and assessment
- Leadership
- Time management
- Change management skills
- Conflict management
- Managing stress
- Registered Nurse (Level 1)
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Willing to undergo training as necessary
- Post registration qualification in specialty
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Description
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to work within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) Adult Palliative Care Team.
The Palliative Care Team provides adult specialist palliative care services across all hospitals within LTHT. The CNS role includes working closely with referring medical teams to meet the specialist palliative care needs of patients and families. You will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients within LTHT. The role is primarily one of providing clinical advice, support and education. The post holder will be expected to work weekends and bank holidays.
Expected Shortlisting Date: 20 May 2024
Planned Interview Date: 27 May 2024
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to join our dynamic team. You should have excellent communication and clinical skills, demonstrating both compassion and the ability to work collaboratively in this challenging but rewarding role. A solid clinical knowledge and the ability to support clinically complex patients is expected.
You will be supported to develop into the role through a robust induction programme and we actively promote lifelong learning and staff wellbeing.
There is potential, in the future, for rotation within the team to deliver project work.
The role involves meeting patients and families on wards, at the invitation of their treating medical team. The patient group we support have life-limiting illness, highly complex needs and are often in the last days or weeks of life. You will be assessing their needs from a specialist palliative care perspective, helping them identify and address their holistic concerns as well as ensuring symptoms are identified, assessed and a management plan suggested.
Following a supported induction period you will work autonomously, but always with the support of your palliative care team colleagues.
Education delivery, project work and role modelling / leadership behaviours commensurate with a Band 6 CNS are expected aspects of the role.
About us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is a large organisation with more than 2000 in-patient beds on over 70 different ward areas.
The Palliative Care Team is part of the Oncology CSU.
The team supports patients at Leeds General Infirmary, St James University Hospital and Chapel Allerton Hospital.
You will be a part of the multidisciplinary Palliative Care Team. We are an experienced team of doctors, nurses and pharmacist providing care to this complex patient group.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
The post holder is responsible for the management of a defined caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs. The post holder will carry out the assessment of those needs, working with the treating teams in the planning, implementation and evaluation of measures to support both the patient and those close to them.
The post holder will also contribute to the development of the palliative care service in LTHT and wider, using resources cost effectively.
Current services are to provide specialist palliative care, advice and support to patients, families and clinical teams within Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
ORGANISATIONAL CHART.
4. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Acts in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct
Clinical
Clinical care delivery
Provide a clinical lead and role model to nursing staff by delivering high quality care.
Undertakes clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required.
Maintain a safe working environment
Responsibilities for patient and client care
Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care and treatments using specialist clinical knowledge and skills.
Organises own clinical workload.
Receives supervision of clinical care and outcomes from Matron.
Freedom to act
Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Make clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols
Communication
Maintains accurate clinical and other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation.
Support patients and their families communicating sensitive condition related information and ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery
Liaise with Community Services (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery
Education and Training
Provide training and education of learners and other junior staff
Actively participate in the development of own personal development plan and performance review
Provide education and training to patients and their carers.
Keep up to date with developments, advances within the specialty
Leadership and management
Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
Work with Matron to promote the development of nurses undertaking the CNO Ten Key Roles as considered appropriate
Under the direction of Matron participates in or leads the development of specific elements of nursing practice, reflecting the CMT and Nursing Directorate business plans
Participates in the setting, monitoring and improvement of standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in the National Benchmarks for Essential Care
Promote evidence based practice, wherever possible
Engages users and carers views on service delivery and development
Implement policy and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty, proposing changes where appropriate
Contribute to policy and protocol development for speciality area
Exercises a personal duty of care in relation to equipment, resource and stock control utilising equipment and supplies appropriately.
Research and Audit
Contribute to the research agenda
Undertake audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments.
Participate in clinical trials as appropriate.
Person SpecificationExperience
Essential
Skills & Behaviours
Desirable
Other Citeria
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable