Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £44,936.00 to £52,812.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44936.00 - £52812.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Harlow, CM17 9JX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0175-24-0009 |
Summary
Clinical Expertise Work as part of the multi-professional team to provide specialist palliative care for patients and their families/carers actively integrating theory and practice. Ensure appropriate prioritisation of referrals, manage caseload, provide clinical face to face assessments and telephone advice and support, delegate to colleagues where appropriate. Practice comprehensive holistic assessments and recommend appropriate treatments, interventions, and support. Liaison with health, social and voluntary care staff in primary and secondary care settings. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients, their families, and carers. Demonstrate and utilise current specialist palliative care knowledge and skills and contribute to developing new initiatives. Act as the patients advocate, ensuring equality, diversity and individual rights are considered paramount in decision making processes. Liaise with other departments, participate in patients case discussions as required as part of the multi-professional team both internally and externally eg Gold Standard Framework (GSF). Maintain accurate nursing records via IT solutions in line with St Clare policies and within the guidelines laid down by the NMC. Communicate information regarding patient care and related matters to appropriate members of the St Clare team and/or external agencies. Work with clinical managers and clinical directors to ensure national, local and Hospice directives/legislation are met. Leadership To act as a role model demonstrating high levels of care and providing clinical leadership to others. Work with Stakeholders within West Essex and the East Hertfordshire borders in health, social and voluntary sectors to ensure collaborative working and integrated practice to benefit patient care. Promote the effective use of the Hospices resources and contribute to any initiatives regarding cost improvement and value for money programmes ensuring high-quality cost-effective care. Contribute and develop new initiatives within the team. Contribute to the collection of data and information providing reports as required demonstrating quality of service in current and future business planning. Education and Quality Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques. Promote, develop, and participate in a program of clinical supervision for staff. Maintain quality monitoring systems, including clinical audit and risk assessment to ensure the delivery of safe and high-quality care. Work closely with colleagues and contribute to palliative care education training sessions/events both locally and nationally as required. Take personal responsibility for lifelong learning and actively engage in developmental opportunities for self and others. Professional Responsibilities To act professionally at all times and in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct. To help maintain a safe environment and actively identify, report, and manage risks relating to lone working and community work. To be aware of and work within the Policies/Procedures/Standards of St. Clare Hospice, including those relating to Health & Safety and Moving & Handling. Keep up to date with recent developments in nursing and palliative care. Attend relevant study opportunities - it is desirable that a masters degree in a relevant subject, or other comparable qualification, is completed within three years of being appointed if not previously achieved. Maintain confidentiality of patients and staff at all times. To deliver optimal care to patients from assessment to management plan, including prescribing of therapeutic drug regimes To perform any other function that is requested by the Community Services Manager within the scope of your role and capabilities. Because of the nature of the work at St Clare you will need to be prepared to address searching questions regarding death and dying on a personal level.