Community Care Nurse Specialist
(CCNS) to work as part of the CCNS Team. This is an exciting position. St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice has been working for the past 4 years with Adult Social Care and developed a truly innovative and exciting specialist nurse role to work at Pilgrim Hospital Boston, in collaboration with a fellow Community Care Nurse Specialist based at Lincoln. The role enables people in their last year of life to have their palliative and end of life care needs identified much earlier. This in turn improves person-centred outcomes, including symptom management and wellbeing for people by enabling timely access to palliative care in the community including hospice care. Community Care Specialist Nurses work as part of the Adult Social Care Team within the wider multidisciplinary team, and when necessary, work alongside other clinical staff to support senior clinical decision-making. The Community Care Specialist Nurse uses advanced knowledge and skills to facilitate complex communication and care planning in the community for people who often have their complex needs associated with palliative and end of life care needs missed. The service has been commissioned by Adult Social Care through St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice. The partnership continues to work together with key stakeholders to develop the service and support its implementation across Boston and Lincoln ULHT sites. Main duties of the job The primary focus of the CCNS role is to support the timely identification of people in their last year of life and facilitate and broker person-centred palliative and end of life care within the community and operational areas of St Barnabas Hospice to improve both person-centred and system outcomes. The post holder will: Deliver evidence-based palliative and end of life care and support improvements in the experience for families. Provide support/education to colleagues and other health and social care professionals within the multidisciplinary team. Support the delivery of key quality and performance indicators relating to this service. Practice at a specialist level, including person-centered care, therapeutic skills, and triadic relationships, sharing knowledge, best practice and critical reflective practice. Applications are welcome from candidates with: Ideally, experience of palliative care, long term conditions or frailty or have a passion to support patients, families and staff in caring for these patients. Current registration with the NMC. Current UK resident with the right to work within the UK. Starting Salary:
£36,095 per annum + Contributory pension scheme or continuation of NHS pension. To apply for this vacancy:
Please complete an application via the NHS Jobs website. For assistance with your application contact: Please Note: To be considered for our roles, applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer sponsorship. Please do not apply without this in place. St Barnabas Hospice is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe in treating everyone with dignity and respect and welcome applications from all sectors of the community. We reserve the right to extend, withdraw or close vacancies where necessary. If selected for interview you will be contacted via the email account used to register. Please check your spam folder. We are St Barnabas Hospice! Lincolnshire's Leading provider of palliative, end-of-life nursing care to adults living with a life-limiting or terminal illness. Ranking in the top 100 best companies to work for in the UK. What's Our Vision? A world where dying with dignity, compassion and having choices is a fundamental part of life. We're on a Mission! To ensure all individuals facing the end of their life in Lincolnshire receive dignified, compassionate care when they require it and where they ask for it. Benefits available to qualifying new employees: Please see the separate employees benefit document to see what's on offer. Pension Options: Option 1 - Continuation of NHS pension (If applicable). Option 2 - Join our generous contributory Pension Scheme, 7% of your monthly salary paid, together with a personal contribution by you. (option to increase your contributions to be double matched by the Trust, up to a limit of 9%). Job responsibilities ** For details of the job description and personal specification please refer to the separate Job Description document ** Qualifications Essential ** For details of the job description and personal specification please refer to the separate Job Description document **
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