Clinical Nurse Specialist – Palliative Care

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Full time
Our friendly team are looking for a highly skilled professional to join our team.

Where possible the successful applicant has experience as Palliative care CNS and is also a non-medical prescriber; however, training is available for successful applicants that need to develop these skills.

A passionate commitment to supporting palliative and end of life care in hospital settings is essential. Practice innovation, self-motivation, and excellent communication skills are vital to this challenging role. This role requires a dynamic, confident nurse leader who, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, can influence practice by demonstrating excellent clinical leadership and motivational skills.

The Palliative Care Team provides multi-professional palliative care services for patients cared by Southend Hospital. The Team has highly developed collaborative relationships across primary, secondary, and voluntary care.

As the Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), the post-holder will play a critical role in supporting patients and their families who have complex needs. This includes working alongside ward and clinical teams in all adult settings ensuring that individualised care for patients is consistently of a high standard that both coordinates and delivers equitable holistic care.

Main duties of the job

To carry caseload of hospital inpatients who require specialist palliative and complex end of life care nursing intervention, providing both support and management for complex needs. Act as an information and advice resource for clinical teams on the care and management of patients and their families who have palliative and end of life needs. Provide expert advice on symptom control, palliative and end of life care issues to staff throughout the Trust. Act as a leadership role model for excellence, empowering others through education, support and the demonstration of expert knowledge and understanding around palliative and end of life care. Participation in delivery of education on all aspects of specialty for Trust and South East Essex locality as required. The post holder will demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise, to support and facilitate high quality individualised care to patients/carers in collaboration with the multi-professional team, and in line with local and national targets. Identify and support Trust wide service and practice development needs for generic palliative and end of life care. As an NMC registered practitioner provide independent prescribing within role (Palliative and EOL care). As part of nursing rota, provide 7 day palliative care face to face service delivering first line CNS led weekend service.

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 17,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people. We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best; to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of this rewarding and interesting role.

We look forward to your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Speciality qualification (BSc, ENB 285/A18 or equivalent)

Desirable

Evidence of leadership and management training Non-Medical Prescriber

Experience

Essential

Minimum 5 years post registration experience Evidence of leadership & management experience Palliative care experience

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff-On-Sea

SS0 0RY

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