Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
An opportunity has arisen to join our Palliative care clinical nurse service. Two 37.5 hour posts have become available as a result of retirement and an internal promotion.
Both Band 7 CNS roles are located in Ysbyty Cwm Cynon and are based within our Palliative Care unit. The positions provide an outreach service to patients with palliative care needs across the community. While working as part of the 7 day roster, the service provides support to both the hospital and community area. The service supports the population of Merthyr and Cynon and the hospital population of Prince Charles Hospital.
The specialist palliative care service is delivered within teams on multiple sites across Cwm Taf Morgannwg. There may be a need for post holder flexibility in providing support to cover the CNS role across other sites depending on patient needs.
Main duties of the job
The position involves directly supporting and advising patients with palliative care needs in a hospital and community setting.
Multidisciplinary team working to lead education and provide support and guidance to colleagues about the specialty is key. The core hours are Monday to Friday 9-5pm, with participation in a 7 day roster with the same working hours. The role will require giving advice to other health care professionals, patients, and families, potentially visiting patients in the hospital and community setting at weekends.
The successful applicant will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs in collaboration with the wider MDT, participating in education, audit, and providing leadership regarding the specialty.
You will need to be enthusiastic about the specialty, demonstrate experience of caring for patients with palliative care needs, and be able to meet the travel requirements.
The Specialist Palliative Care Team in CTMUHB is a multi-professional team providing a clinical, advisory, and educational service across CTMUHB. The team is situated in locality bases which each have a SPC inpatient unit and house services that provide outreach services to both community and hospital patients.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary, and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn, and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organization but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* UK NMC Registered Nurse
* Qualification in palliative care at Degree/Diploma or equivalent skills, knowledge, and experience, supplemented by specialist training, experience, and short courses to Master's Level equivalent
* Teaching and assessing qualification
Skills
* Proven ability of practice development and innovation
Experience
* Significant post-registration experience, with experience of caring for patients with palliative care needs
* Bereavement Care; Audit; Community nursing
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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