Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Job Overview
Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Job Overview
Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Are you a passionate and experienced nurse ready to make a real difference in palliative and end of life care?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our dedicated Macmillan Palliative Care Team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. This is a rewarding opportunity to be part of a supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality specialist care to patients with both malignant and non-malignant conditions.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of our hospital-based service, you will:
* Provide expert clinical advice and support to patients, families, and healthcare professionals.
* Contribute to education and training across the Trust, helping to build confidence and capability in palliative and end of life care.
* Take an active role in service development, quality improvement initiatives, audit, and implementation of national guidance.
* Manage a caseload of patients with complex and specialist palliative care needs.
* Work within a 7-day specialist palliative care visiting model.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
If you're ready to take the next step in your palliative care career and want to work with a team who shares your dedication to making a difference, we would love to hear from you.
Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered General nurse with degree in nursing studies
* MSc in speciality or evidence of working towards
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Mentor prep
* Independent prescriber or working towards
* Physical assessment and history taking qualification
* Palliative care module or European certificate in essential Palliative care
Desirable criteria
* Oncology Qualification
* Communication skills training
* Knowledge of palliative care in the acute sector
Competencies
Essential criteria
* Good leadership skills
* Experience in leading/managing a team
* Experience of change management
* Education of staff and patients
* Experience of audit
* Experience in service improvement
Desirable criteria
* Recognised leadership course
* Project management
Specialist criteria
Essential criteria
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
* Management of a caseload
* Training and education of medical staff
Desirable criteria
* Oncology experience
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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