Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for highly motivated Clinical Nurse Specialists to join the Palliative and End of Life Care Team at Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust. The team is dedicated to ensuring high quality clinical care and patient experience for patients, their families, and carers with progressive, advanced life-limiting diseases requiring specialist palliative and end of life care.
We are looking for nurses with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The post holders will act as a specialist resource across the acute site and Swindon Intermediate Care Centre, using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertake research, audits, and service development within palliative and end of life care.
The successful candidates will also need to demonstrate that they have experience in working with patients in a variety of settings and are able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
Main duties of the job
A flexible approach is needed to manage the changing picture of palliative and end of life care, with a willingness to respond to the changing needs of the Trust and its patients and their families.
You will work within the Palliative Care and End of Life (EoL) Specialist team providing specialist advice and support to both patients and their families. You will work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team across the Trust.
You will promote clinical excellence and provide specialised advice and support to patients, carers, and staff, ensuring practice is patient-centered and evidence-based.
Job responsibilities
* Demonstrate exemplar nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, ensuring a high standard of individualised patient care and experience.
* Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and compliance with appropriate NMC standards and Trust professional guidelines.
* Ensure accurate and contemporaneous patient, staff, and other records are maintained, submitted, and stored meeting NMC requirements.
* Act as a role model for other team members, promoting and demonstrating the standards of care expected.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Experience at Band 5/6.
* Educated to degree level or willing to study.
* Demonstrates ongoing continuing professional development.
* Advanced Communication Skills.
* Competent in Discussions and Decision Making with Regard to Adult Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) and Resuscitation.
* Advanced History taking and Assessment.
* Teaching qualification.
* Recognised teaching course.
Experience
* Post-registration experience including caring for or experience in Palliative Care and EoL patients.
* Experience in Palliative Care and EoL nursing.
* Teaching experience.
* Knowledge of audit and its effectiveness within health care.
* Experience in document preparation, data collection, and report writing.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
* Evidence of teaching.
* Ability to interpret and utilize information effectively.
Knowledge and skills
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own and others' workload.
* Ability to work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to its development.
* Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Adaptable and demonstrates a problem-solving approach.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Nurse Palliative and End of Life Care
£37,338 to £44,962 per annum pro rata
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