Marie Curie is the UK’s leading palliative and end-of-life care charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of palliative and end-of-life care in the UK, and the only provider across all 4 nations. We specialise in the provision of UK wide community nursing and hospice care, both inpatient and outpatient, whilst providing information and support on all aspects of terminal illness, dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they’re likely to die from.
The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life. Right now, one in four people in the UK with a terminal illness, do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives.
We are recruiting for a Senior Nurse to join our Community-based team in Dorset. As a Senior Nurse, you’ll act as a manager of a team of Registered Nurses, Nurse Associate and Healthcare Assistants, as well as supporting the Clinical Nurse Manager.
This is a Dorset Community based role across Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole, which will see you work from home and out in the community.
Salary aligned to AFC band 6 - £35,392 - £37,350
Please click here for the Job description:
In this role, you will:
1. Delivers hands on care on a regular basis as part of the clinical team
2. With support from the Clinical Nurse Manager, undertakes My Plan and Review / CDPF for nurses within the immediate team, and/or supports the registered nurses to undertake appraisal of more junior staff. This will result in the creation of individual development plans to be overseen by the Senior Nurse
3. Facilitates the development of nursing practice through specific projects in line with the place-based objectives.
4. Acts as a managerial and clinical resource for services within their remit.
5. Co-ordinates patient activity and encourages a wide team approach to the provision of patient care
6. Regularly oversees care to ensure staff are providing the highest standard of care and that any training or development needs are assessed and supported.
7. Actively participates in own clinical supervision and promotes the clinical supervision of junior staff.
8. Delivers and participates in formal and informal teaching to reflect the needs of the service.
9. Regularly participates in observations of clinical practice to monitor standards of practice and create bespoke developmental plans for staff within their team.
10. Supports the CNM with investigations into incidents and complaints.
11. Ensures that the voice of the user is heard and supports with facilitating high quality patient and carer feedback.
12. Regularly co-ordinates the service including allocation of staff, responding to queries and liaising with the coordination hub regarding referrals and allocations
Key skill and experience:
13. Registered Healthcare Professional on NMC register
14. Experience caring for patients with palliative care needs
15. Collectively reflect on and assess the impact of person-centred ways of working within the multidisciplinary team.
16. Understands benefits of working with a patient-centred philosophy of multidisciplinary team working
17. Incorporate knowledge of life limiting conditions and best practice evidence into care planning and decision making
18. Experience of formal and informal teaching
Advert closes: 20th August
Interviews: TBC
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