Clinical Nurse Specialist - Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom - Hospice in the Weald

Description

Job summary

Do you want to be part of a committed and supportive multi-disciplinary team that delivers empowering and compassionate care supporting people with a life limiting illness? Then this role is for you

Main duties of the job

Your new role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) or Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS) to work as part of our Hospice Outreach Team in providing specialist palliative care support to our patients who are living in the community, both in their own homes and within care homes/nursing homes.

Our team are the initial point of contact for all new community referrals and all telephone calls coming into the will be part of a rota of clinicians covering a 7 day a week service, offering advice and care to our patients both in clinic and home settings, as well as remotely via telephone and videoconferencing support.

Our team care for patients who have a life limiting illness and our focus is on individualised care, focusing on improving quality of life and achieving patient centred goals. We care for people with long term conditions including heart failure, respiratory disease, frailty and neurological conditions, as well as those with an oncological diagnosis and our team strives to work alongside other community teams and specialists to optimise patient experience and improve our team knowledge and development.

About us

To succeed in this role

You will have proven community or in-patient palliative care experience at Band 6 or 7, or have equivalent level of experience of working in the following related areas: Paramedic, General Medicine, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, Frailty, Respiratory Care, Cardiology or Oncology.

We are looking for a motivated clinician with the ability to work as an independent practitioner whilst being part of a responsive and resilient team. You will bring with you a wide range of experience in mentoring and supporting individuals and teams and possess advanced communication skills and excellent presentation skills (both oral and written).

If this sounds like you, we will be excited to hear from you

If you think you could make a difference by joining our dynamic team, we would welcome your application and look forward to discussing this job further with you.

Benefits include free parking and a generous holiday allowance with the ability to buy and sell additional holiday. You can even carry over an NHS pension You can view more information about our range of benefits online

For more information, please contact Dea Haysler or Samara Romans Hospice Outreach Service on or or

We look forward to meeting you soon.

Job responsibilities

Job Title

Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) / Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS)

Reports to

Designated Service Manager

Location

Based at the Hospice buildings in Pembury, Kent, or Five Ashes, East Sussex, with potential requirement to work at other locations within West Kent and East Sussex.

Scope & Job Purpose

You will co-ordinate and deliver high quality care to patients with a terminal illness. Providing support and advice to patients in their own homes, community hospitals and care/nursing homes .

You will strive to help us to deliver Hospice advice and support to more people who need it, you will provide clinical advice and interventional support to other professionals on palliative care issues and play a significant role in helping patients to achieve their personal goals and preferred place of care.

Key Responsibilities

Deliverables/Outcomes

Effectively and efficiently manage patients, ensuring the right person is seeing the right patient in the right place at the right time.

Work as part of a team to achieve referral outcome measures as stated in the Hospice in the Weald Business Strategy.

Attendance at palliative care meetings held at GP practices.

Engage in and promote the use of End of Life Care tools.

Participate in the provision of high-quality information to patients and those important to them regarding their disease, treatment and services available; adapting this advice to suit individual needs.

Undertake the Advanced Physical Assessment of patients , ensuring a holistic assessment is completed so that, as an organisation, we can offer the best possible care for the patient and those important to them

Ensure symptom control and End of Life Care is delivered, documented and reviewed to the highest standard.

Ensure that the patient is reviewed at MDT or caseload review in accordance with NICE Guidance

Participate in the provision of a 7 day a week service including weekends and Bank Holidays. Participate in agreed methods of duty planning.

Management and Leadership

Liaise closely with line manger on control, distribution, and management of clinical workload.

Be cognizant of the Hospice in the Wealds Three-Year Strategy and Operational Business Plan.

Work to maintain a high level of risk awareness about self and patient safety

Assist in the development of policies, procedures, and guidelines to continuously improve ways of working.

Support and empower our volunteers and more junior members of the workforce

Communications and Teamwork

Advise and support the multi-disciplinary team to enable them to provide high quality care, planning ahead, giving advice on pain and symptom control, advanced care planning, social and psychological care, communication and use of resources.

Provide a high standard of sensitive communication with patients and those important to them, which maintains an individuals privacy and dignity.

Audit and Research

In consultation with managers, ensure all work is evidence based.

Contribute to performance and activity reports and analysis to Hospice in the Weald using ICT/information to produce intelligence for future service provision.

Develop, in conjunction with line management, mechanisms for auditing care within the service and implement changing practice as a result.

Participate in or support, where appropriate, nursing and/or collaborative clinical research in palliative care

Training and Development

Actively plan and participate in the provision of supervision/reflective practice to colleagues to support engaging development opportunities.

Undertake Hospice mandatory training and participate in wider training and development opportunities

Act as a role model and mentor to colleagues and to be an ambassador to neighbouring health and social care providers, providing informal education and support to staff in their provision of palliative care.

Work collaboratively with the multi-professional team to provide training to care homes on End of Life Care as required.

Undertake external training to enhance the CNS/ CPS role as appropriate

General

Maintain professionalism through adherence to recognized Codes ( NMC, GMC, HPC, HCPC) and work within the boundaries of Hospice in the Weald policies

Maintain professional development though the Hospice Annual Review process to continuously update and improve knowledge and competencies

Engage in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the area you are working and achieve the required level of competence.

Any other duties that may be reasonably requested.

Strive for excellence always.

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE AND IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE POST HOLDER AND ACCORDING TO FUTURE CHANGES/DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SERVICE.

Helping out - Fundraising Activities

Hospice in the Weald is a registered charity and not part of the NHS. We rely on support from the community we serve, to enable us to develop and deliver our services. It costs over £7 million to run the Hospice every year the majority of which comes from voluntary contributions from the general public. In addition, we have over 1000 volunteers giving their time to the Hospice by helping in every Service and Department.

We expect all members of staff to support the fundraising activities of the Hospice. We encourage every staff member to help out at, at least two fundraising activities every year. Opportunities to support fundraising activities are varied, and could include helping at fundraising or shop events, attending a cheque presentation or giving a short talk about the work of the Hospice to an interested group in the community.

Your manager will ask you which events you have helped out at, when you meet for one to one meetings and as part of the Annual Review process.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable