Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist
We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated, forward-thinking first-level registered nurse to join our community team as a Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist. You will need to have substantial post-registration experience. Experience in delivering palliative care or a directly related field of practice would be advantageous. You will work in the community as part of our team that covers the whole of North Devon. Your role will require you to work closely with colleagues in other teams and organisations across our locality to support people at home.
Main duties of the job
You will be able to demonstrate experience of caseload management in a community setting together with a strong grounding in symptom management. You will need to be able to work within a close-knit team whilst also demonstrating a degree of autonomy in your practice. You will be committed to person-centred care and evidence-based practice. If you are not already a non-medical prescriber, support will be given to undertake training and gain registration.
Job responsibilities
* Working with the community team to help deliver flexible, responsive, patient-led, outstanding care to people in their own homes.
* Liaise with GPs and surgeries to provide best patient-led care jointly.
* Carrying a clinical caseload and using expertise to guide and support others in the management of complex palliative care needs.
* Contributing to the governance and monitoring of our services through compliance with and involvement in the regular delivery of audit.
* Directly managing your own caseload, assessing complex, specialist palliative care needs, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care and evaluating effectiveness, impact and outcomes with the patient, those close to them and other key colleagues involved in the patient's care.
* Promoting an environment and culture where patient-led, individualised care is central to our way of working.
* Work with the team to develop skills of enquiry in order that we always look for ways to develop and improve services to achieve the best outcomes.
* Promoting and facilitating effective multidisciplinary working within the hospice and with colleagues in primary and secondary care to ensure patients receive coordinated and seamless care.
* Working with the team to define and agree standards of nursing care and practice to ensure our care is always safe.
* Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous records of care in line with policy and legal requirements.
* Ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times.
* Supporting the team to understand their role in Safeguarding including recognising issues, reporting concerns and being involved in investigations.
* Supporting staff to report concerns, incidents, learning points, issues for awareness and safeguarding concerns.
* Develop action and learning points and investigate where required.
* Acting always to promote and facilitate patients and their families to receive outstanding care and to listen to their feedback.
* As a CNS, you will be involved in the facilitation of learning and development and support the education lead.
* Providing mentorship and supervision to designated staff as required.
* Your own continued professional development and ensure you are updated on current research, clinical practice and professional matters.
* Ensuring that you follow good infection control practice at all times and that you are familiar with infection control policies, procedures, and guidance relevant to your area of work.
* Understanding your role in the safeguarding of adults and children by being able to identify risks, and recognise signs of harm, abuse or neglect including how to report concerns and take immediate action to protect a person at risk of harm or abuse.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration as a registered nurse
* Post-registration qualification at degree level in a palliative care or related area of clinical practice
* NMP or willingness to gain the qualification
Experience
* Experience of working in the community nursing setting
* Advanced assessment and care planning skills
* Significant post-registration experience in end of life care, palliative care or a related field
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.
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