Job overview
Are you passionate about providing high quality Palliative and End of Life care within a community team, looking after people in their own homes?
Would you like to work in a team that has been rated outstanding for end of life care?
Yes? Then what are you waiting for, come join our experienced Palliative Care Team!
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills, knowledge and confidence within our supportive team. Enabling you to become an autonomous practitioner demonstrating the ability to make clinical judgements using expert knowledge and skills, to provide the highest standard of holistic care for our patients and their families.
An enthusiasm and understanding of palliative and end of life Care in an community based setting is essential.
Main duties of the job
What we look for:
1. Someone who is enthusiastic about working patients and their families with complex palliative care needs in the community.
2. Someone who is able to provide symptom management and psychological and social support to patients and their families within a community environment, including telephone triage and home visits.
3. Someone who can deliver education to Health care professionals, patients and their families
4. Someone who works well in a team but also able to work autonomously.
5. Willingness to learn
What we Offer:
6. There is access to clinical expertise and oversight to enable the optimal care of our patients 7 days a week.
7. There will be access to continued professional development and support especially for those with little palliative care or community experience
8. Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
9. Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Professional UK registration in NMC
Desirable criteria
11. Additional post registration learning in palliative care
Experience
Essential criteria
12. Evidence of working with palliative care patients and acute hospital experience
Desirable criteria
13. evidence of specialist palliative care skills
skills
Essential criteria
14. Evidence of the ability to deliver formal/informal learning sessions
Desirable criteria
15. Evidence of advanced communications skills training
Essential
Essential criteria
16. Driving licence and access to a car