A B7 Clinical Nurse Specialist post in the Community Specialist Palliative Care team at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on specialist palliative care advice, support and monitoring for patients, families and staff, including a shared caseload with keyworker duties. It sits within a multi-disciplinary team alongside Palliative Care Medics, district nurses, GPs and hospital and hospice colleagues. Applicants need NMC registration, a V300 prescribing qualification and post-registration palliative care experience.
What the job involves
- Provide holistic assessment, formulate management plans and implement care, including specialist advice on complex pain and symptom management
- Hold a shared caseload of patients with cancer and other life-limiting conditions, acting as keyworker for a percentage of it
- Contribute to a co-ordinated specialist palliative care service for patients, families and carers across CCICP
- Act as a specialist advice resource for other healthcare professionals across CCICP
- Maintain excellent working relationships with the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Participate in audit, education and research
- Lead in the specialist area, giving expert advice across the Trust within agreed guidelines
- Perform specialist assessment of community patients, including prescribing medication
- Communicate complex specialist information and refer patients to appropriate clinicians
- Prioritise and supervise own workload, including discharge or onward referral
- Accept accountability for the day-to-day management and effectiveness of the community service
- Collect, evaluate and report information and maintain accurate patient records
What’s required
Qualifications
- Adult nursing degree or equivalent
- Masters level qualification or equivalent
- Postgraduate qualification in palliative care
- V300 prescribing qualification
- Clinical diagnostics qualification
- Teaching or mentoring qualification
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
Experience
- Relevant post-registration experience in palliative care
- Experience of multi-professional working
- Evidence of CPD
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced communication, negotiation and listening skills
- Ability to manage or lead junior colleagues
- Audit skills
- IT skills
- Proactive workload management and prioritisation
- Ability to cope under pressure and handle complex emotional situations
Nice to have
- Research qualification
- Counselling skills training
- Full UK driving licence and car for work purposes
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Post-registration experience of working in NHS services
- Post-registration experience of working in a community setting
What’s offered
- Supervision, training and development opportunities
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
