Bank Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist in London

CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!

The Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) will join an established integrated Palliative Care team that works across organisational boundaries. This team supports patients with a variety of cancer and non‐cancer diagnoses, alongside long‐term conditions. The post holder will be a member of the Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust Specialist Palliative Care Service.

The CNS will be required to influence patient care by undertaking:

• Advanced Clinical Practice
• Training and Education
• Service Development/Leadership
• Research and Audit

The advanced clinical practice component will be achieved by providing specialist palliative care to an aligned patient caseload in partnership with primary health care teams and other specialist and generalist services. The CNS will be expected to contribute to the wider cancer and palliative care agenda, ensuring a flexible responsive service that meets the local needs within CLCH in Hertfordshire.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide highly specialist palliative care advice and support to other generalist nurses, care agencies and health professionals including doctors and consultants, to ensure high quality individualised patient care.
• Use expert skills in communication, clinical judgement and management within palliative care settings.
• Use and develop specialist skills when dealing with verbal and physical aggression whilst working with patients and carers.
• Function effectively as an autonomous practitioner working independently not directly supervised and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and manage a caseload of complex patients alongside other colleagues to ensure patients, carers and professionals are supported in specialist palliative care needs.

Person Specification:

• Education/Qualification
• Current NMC registration
• First level degree or undertaking a first level degree
• Willingness to undertake further academic or practical study at a higher level e.g. Master's degree
• Suitable applicants will have demonstrable post registration experience working at a senior level
• Candidates should have attained an appropriate level of experience to fulfil the competencies required in palliative care or oncology
• Teaching qualification or willingness to undertake
• Extended nurse prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake
• Certificate in counselling or willingness to undertake

Experience

• Community experience
• Evidence of experience in a teaching and mentoring role
• Experience of cross‐boundary working in partnership and collaboration with health, social and voluntary sectors
• Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
• Understanding of current political and policy context in Primary health Care
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its implications
• Up to date evidence of continued professional development and of reflective practice in a professional portfolio
• Proven leadership skills in some aspect of service development
• Experience of leading change and innovation

Skills and Knowledge

• Has a wide range of Palliative and end‐of‐life care clinical skills
• Ability to utilise a range of expert communication methods appropriate to situation
• Is able to use communication theories to inform and to organise care packages as appropriate
• Is able to communicate complex, and sensitive information which requires empathy and reassurance related to palliative care patients and their families and professionals working with them
• Has ability to use influencing, negotiating and counselling skills in highly emotive atmosphere
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

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.

£21.46 to £26.42 an hour (inclusive of HACS)