*Advert may close early if sufficient volume of applications is reached.*
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a role as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Specialist Palliative Care team at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. We are inviting applications from highly motivated registered nurses. You will have advanced communication and interpersonal skills and are educated to degree level. The applicant should have post-registration experience working with palliative and end-of-life patients.
In return, we will offer a supportive and friendly environment where you will be challenged and encouraged to maintain and improve knowledge and skills to ensure the delivery of high-quality palliative and end-of-life care.
A key part of the CNS role is to assess and facilitate appropriate transfers to local hospices, working closely with the MDT and other stakeholders to ensure timely, safe, and efficient transfers of care. You will be responsible for implementing timely and person-centred assessments to determine appropriate admission into the hospice setting for patients requiring complex symptom management and/or end-of-life care. You will also contribute to avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and expediting discharges to meet patients’ preferred place of care or death.
The Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) will hold a supervised clinical caseload, coordinate holistic care, and provide ongoing support for patients, their relatives, and carers. The successful applicant will work alongside other Clinical Nurse Specialists, conduct ongoing assessments, reviews, planning, and evaluation of care requiring clinical expertise within Specialist Palliative Care, escalating concerns to senior team members as required. Effective, empathetic, and reassuring communication is essential, especially when discussing sensitive information. The CNS will act as a patient advocate and palliative care resource within multidisciplinary meetings, participating in clinical management discussions.
You will ensure continuous development of clinical skills related to symptom management for patients on the specialist palliative care caseload, ensuring timely escalation to senior clinical nurse specialists or SPC consultants when needs fall outside your scope of practice or competency. You will proactively monitor patients, recognizing early signs of deterioration or acute illness based on an understanding of disease processes.
The CNS will conduct assessments and care planning to meet patients’ future care needs, respecting their wishes and preferences, including Emergency Health Care Planning, Preferred Place of Care, and DNACPR decisions.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees, and you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, our main priority is to provide safe, high-quality care to our patients every day—care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We aim to be the best place to work, with the right staff in the right roles at the right time, to deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We support staff through an inclusive and supportive workplace, health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is important to us, including performance reviews, appraisals, and recognition programs such as Star and Team of the Month, colleague recognition notes, Managers Awards, Shining Stars, and Service Awards.
We promote the Making Every Contact Count approach to behavior change, supporting health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
We recruit based on values, and our motto is “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”.
For further details or informal visits, contact:
* Name: Caroline Rocks
* Job title: Operational Matron
* Email: caroline.rocks1@nhs.net
* Telephone: 07825938398
Please contact us for more information or to arrange an informal look around our department.
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