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
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated nurse who is passionate about palliative and end of life care to join the hospital based Palliative Care team. You will play an active part in clinical practice, education, research/audit and the implementation of national guidelines.
Main duties of the job
* The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established dynamic multi disciplinary team who provide specialist advice and support to patients, their relatives and all members of the health care teams with the hospital.
* The service is offered to patients with both malignant and non-malignant disease.
* You will be an expert within the field and be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with specialist needs.
* The role covers a 7 day specialist palliative care visiting service within the hospital.
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
Applications for this post are invited from nurses who have experience at a senior level in Palliative and EOLC care. You should also have a degree, a palliative care qualification and excellent communication skills. You should be committed to continuing education.
We offer a friendly and challenging working environment with a strong commitment to personal professional development.
Please see Job Description and Job Specification for further information
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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