Clinical Nurse Specialist - Martlets Community Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Provide expertise and advanced skills to facilitate and promote the individualised care of people with palliative and end of life care needs across Brighton and Hove and the Havens.

Assess, review, support and ensure the safe and effective case management of patients with complex palliative and end of life care needs across a variety of care settings within the community.

Offer continuing support and advice to family and carers and provide palliative and end of life care nursing advice to colleagues in both primary and secondary care settings.

Link with staff across all providers to promote fully integrated team working.

Participate in the promotion of patient centred care, establishing and maintaining a supportive relationship with the patient and their family.

Advocate for people as they approach their end of life, ensuring that their voice is heard by the promotion and support of advance care planning.

Ensure that care is planned around the patient and family and individualised to meet the complexity of need.

Receive and lead handover of patient information and status with relevant colleagues, to ensure that a seamless service is experienced by patients and their families.

Provide support, information and advice to the patients diagnosed with advanced progressive diseases and their families to enable them to realise and maintain their potential and adjust their lives if necessary.

Support the patient in identifying realistic and achievable goals within the context of their overall care plan which may involve referral to other services based on identified need.

Provide an environment that encourages the patient to play an active part in their care enabling them to voice their wishes about current and future care.

Act as an advocate for the patient when necessary.

Participate in bereavement support when appropriate.

Participate fully as a member of the Multi Disciplinary Team

Attend Gold Standard Framework (GSF) meetings

Leadership and management

Lead, engage and empower other staff and provide a range or formal and informal learning opportunities

Support the development of team members through induction, appraisals and identification of appropriate training

Deliver agreed targets, plan and hold regular meetings to inform, update and to promote coaching and team development

Carry out audits on all areas to maintain standards, which include spot checks in areas of work and embed changes for own work and others

Utilise Information Technology and ensure guidelines are followed when sharing information.

Maintain a high professional standard in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Conduct

If registered as a non medical independent prescriber, prescribe in accordance with National, NMC and Martlets guidelines and within the limits of their individual competence. Non medical prescribers will attend Martlets Nurse Independent Prescribers meetings and maintain regular clinical supervision with their allocated NIP mentor.

Attend and be a key member of the Martlets Quality and Safety Forum and other relevant meetings.

Access managerial support and supervision.

Work in accordance with Martlets policies, procedures and values.

Contribute to a range of policy developments, governance and service improvements.

Work flexibly, contributing to improved ways of working and the development of the service.

Manage longer term initiatives and improvement projects, as required.

Engage technology and optimise ways of working to improve efficiency.

Actively contribute to team and individual development, embracing opportunities to review the service and build team resilience and capability.

Ensure positive representation in all interactions, working in partnership with other providers to foster culture of lessons learnt from adverse events and enhances role Martlets can play to benefit patient safety and patient user experience.

Promote a culture which respects and values diversity and supports patients, visitors and staff in exercising their rights and recognising needs of diverse patient groups.

Ensure care within practice is consistent with the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Identify and report patterns of discrimination which undermine the quality and diversity in accordance with organisational policies and current legislation.

Training

Contribute to the development and delivery of Martlets education programmes, enabling Martlets to be the Palliative Care educator of choice

Finance

Effectively and safely use financial and physical resources

Record Keeping

Retain accurate, contemporaneous records that ensures safety, continuity of patient care in a manner that reflects Martlets policy and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards for Record Keeping

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Advanced Communication skills training or equivalent experience dealing with bad news, Complex casework and collaborating with others Significant post registration and specialist palliative care experience is essential for this role within a charity/ hospice/ hospital or community setting Experience of working in a community environment Experience of managing a caseload of patients independently and managing a diverse caseload Management experience including staff and budgets Experience of leading on service development projects Experience in providing multi professional education

Qualifications

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly with set objectives to achieve the strategic aims of the organisation Ability to work as a member of a small team in delivering a high quality service Ability to manage time Ability to manage a range of short term and longer term priorities Ability to travel to varying work locations during unsocial hours A flexible approach to working patterns Ability to work in a rota covering a 7 day service 08.00 to 21.00

Personal Attributes and Values

Essential

• Ability to travel to varying work locations during unsocial hours A flexible approach to working patterns Ability to work in a rota covering a 7 day service 08.00 to 18:00 Able to drive Access to a car Full immunisation for Hepatitis B Enhanced DBS A valid UK driving licence and the ability to travel frequently throughout the working day across the catchment area for the hospice.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Hospice Group

Address

Titnore Lane

Worthing

West Sussex

BN12 6NZ

Employer's website

https://www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)