Clinical Nurse Specialist / Clinical Paramedic Specialist
| Posting date: | 28 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,302.00 to £54,129.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47302.00 - £54129.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4TA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0016-25-0009 |
Summary
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. 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 (e.g. 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.