Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Our friendly team is looking for a highly skilled professional to join us. The successful applicant should have experience as a Palliative Care CNS and be a non-medical prescriber; however, training is available for those who need to develop these skills.
A passionate commitment to supporting palliative and end-of-life care in hospital settings is essential. Practice innovation, self-motivation, and excellent communication skills are vital to this challenging role. This role requires a dynamic, confident nurse leader who, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, can influence practice by demonstrating excellent clinical leadership and motivational skills.
The Palliative Care Team provides multi-professional palliative care services for patients cared for by Southend Hospital. The Team has highly developed collaborative relationships across primary, secondary, and voluntary care.
As the Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), the post-holder will play a critical role in supporting patients and their families who have complex needs. This includes working alongside ward and clinical teams in all adult settings to ensure that individualized care for patients is consistently of a high standard that both coordinates and delivers equitable holistic care.
Main duties of the job
1. Carry a caseload of hospital inpatients who require specialist palliative and complex end-of-life care nursing intervention, providing both support and management for complex needs.
2. Act as an information and advice resource for clinical teams on the care and management of patients and their families who have palliative and end-of-life needs.
3. Provide expert advice on symptom control, palliative, and end-of-life care issues to staff throughout the Trust.
4. Act as a leadership role model for excellence, empowering others through education, support, and the demonstration of expert knowledge and understanding around palliative and end-of-life care.
5. Participate in the delivery of education on all aspects of specialty for the Trust and South East Essex locality as required.
6. Demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise to support and facilitate high-quality individualized care to patients/carers in collaboration with the multi-professional team, and in line with local and national targets.
7. Identify and support Trust-wide service and practice development needs for generic palliative and end-of-life care.
8. As an NMC registered practitioner, provide independent prescribing within the role (Palliative and EOL care).
9. As part of the nursing rota, provide a 7-day palliative care face-to-face service delivering first-line CNS-led weekend service.
About us
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 17,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people. We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate, and build careers. From facilities through to consultant specialists, we want to be the best. To achieve this, we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important, but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking, and enthusiastic, we want you to join us.
We offer a good working environment with flexible working opportunities and the chance to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of this rewarding and interesting role.
We look forward to your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Speciality qualification (BSc, ENB 285/A18 or equivalent)
* Evidence of leadership and management training
* Non-Medical Prescriber
Experience
* Minimum 5 years post-registration experience
* Evidence of leadership & management experience
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.
Salary: £46,148 a year (Per Annum, Pro Rata for Part Time)
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