Job responsibilities
Community Clinical Nurse Specialist / Clinical Paramedic Specialist (Virtual Ward)
Location: Bromley
Hours: Part Time 22.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) 12 month fixed term contract
Salary: £49,178 - £55,492 (inclusive of HCA, pro rata)
Please note, salary will be determined on service and experience within the role
Are you an experienced community palliative care nurse, or paramedic, looking for an exciting opportunity to join a new initiative within the St Christophers Bromley Community Palliative Care Team?
Are you interested in being part of a team that provides the best possible palliative care for people living in South East London? A team that responds rapidly, is holistic, reflexive, responsive and uses all your clinical skills to provide high quality palliative care through direct care, or through supporting other clinicians using teaching, education and advancing practice
The Bromley Hospital At Home Serviceis a new dynamic, collaborative, integrated model of care that aims to deliver a range of monitoring and interventions in the community in order to help patients avoid hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and to remain at home through the use of short term support and intervention. St Christophers is part of this new service (The Hospital At Home Palliative Team), and is looking to recruit a part time CNS/CPS to add to the existing team.
What will you be doing? You will work across organisations to support people to remain in their own homes rather than attending hospital. The Palliative Pathway in this innovative service supports people identified as reaching the end of their life .
St Christophers prides itself on creating an environment of committed and supportive multi-professionals who deliver empowering, compassionate care and support, through making meaningful connections with the people we care for and their families.
St Christophers has services spanning the London boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and are connected to partner health and social care organisations in all the boroughs we support. St Christophers CARE, provides learning and development to the communities we support, and we have academic links with a number of universities, nationally and internationally
Benefits of joining St Christophers
- You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community
- Access to excellent training and development opportunities including masters level education and non-medical prescribing
- A number of health and wellbeing schemes
- A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Fiona Hodson - Nurse Consultant on 0208 768 4500 or f.hodson@StChristophers.org.uk
Please have a look at our website for further information on all aspects of St Christophers at www.stchristophers.org.uk and to apply for this position, please click the Apply Online button below.
Closing Date: 13th August 2023
Provisional Interview Date: 15th August 2023
In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.
