Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist in Newport

30 hours per week: Monday to Thursday 0830hrs - 1700hrs.

Salary: £43,300 per year, pro rata. Actual salary: £34,700 per year.

We are committed to delivering outstanding care and support to everyone across North Devon who is impacted by a life-limiting illness. Together we can make a real difference. We are proud to support patients and their families at their most vulnerable times, offering compassionate dignified care when it is needed most. Our aim is to enable more people who wish to remain at home to receive care in familiar surroundings, supported by family and friends.

Main duties of the job

• Working as part of a community team covering the whole of North Devon, you will collaborate closely with colleagues across a range of teams and organisations within the locality to support people in their own homes.
• You will be able to demonstrate experience in managing a caseload within a community setting and have a strong foundation in symptom management.
• While working within a close-knit and supportive team, you will also show confidence and autonomy in your practice.
• A commitment to person-centred care and evidence-based practice is essential.
• If you are not already a non-medical prescriber, full support will be provided to undertake the required training and achieve registration.
• For candidates without previous specialist palliative care experience, a tailored induction and training programme will be provided.
• We actively support continued professional development and encourage all team members to pursue learning opportunities that support their growth and development.

About us

Working for us is awesome! Benefits include:

• An excellent working environment (& beautiful outside areas)
• Flexible & family friendly policies including Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental leave and Pawternity!
• Tech Scheme
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Personal pension scheme with the ability to continue contributions to your NHS pension
• Generous holiday allowance increasing with service
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering free confidential advice on a range of matters including financial, legal, health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which can include up to 5 children and the option to include partners
• The opportunity to give us your feedback on how we can improve as an organisation

Job responsibilities

• Working with the community team, to help deliver flexible, responsive, patient-led, outstanding care to people in their own homes.
• Liaise with GPs and surgeries to provide best patient led care jointly.
• Carrying a clinical caseload and use expertise to guide and support others in the management of complex palliative care needs.
• Contributing to the governance and monitoring of our services through compliance with and involvement in the regular delivery of audit.
• Directly managing your own caseload, assessing complex, specialist palliative care needs, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care and evaluating effectiveness, impact and outcomes with the patient, those close to them and other key colleagues involved in the patient's care.
• Promoting an environment and culture where patient led, individualised care is central to our way of working.
• Work with the team to develop skills of enquiry in order that we always look for ways to develop and improve services to achieve the best outcomes.
• Promoting and facilitating effective multidisciplinary working within the hospice and with colleagues in primary and secondary care to ensure patients receive coordinated and seamless care.
• Working with the team to define and agree standards of nursing care and practice to ensure our care is always safe.
• Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous records of care in line with policy and legal requirements.
• Ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• Supporting the team to understand their role in Safeguarding including recognising issues, reporting concerns and being involved in investigations.
• Supporting staff to report concerns, incidents, learning points, issues for awareness and safeguarding concerns. Develop action and learning points and investigate where required.
• Acting always to promote and facilitate patients and their families to receive outstanding care and to listen to their feedback.
• As a CNS, you will be involved in the facilitation of learning and development and support the education lead.
• Providing mentorship and supervision to designated staff as required.
• Your own continued professional development and ensure you are updated on current research, clinical practice and professional matters.
• Ensuring that you follow good infection control practice at all times and that you are familiar with infection control policies, procedures, and guidance relevant to your area of work.
• Understanding your role in the safeguarding of adults and children by being able to identify risks, and recognise signs of harm, abuse or neglect including how to report concerns and take immediate action to protect a person at risk of harm or abuse.

Person Specification

• Current NMC Registration as a Registered Nurse
• Post registration qualification at degree level in palliative care is desirable.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• NMP or willingness to gain the qualification
• Significant post registration experience in end of life care, palliative care or a related field
• Experience of working in the community nursing setting

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.