Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job responsibilities

Working as part of a supportive and integrated clinical team,covering East Surrey and West Sussex, you will make a difference to local patients and their families by offering expert advice and care seven days a week, including face to face scheduled visits and telephone support, with occasional out of hours visits. Working alongside primary care network colleagues you will deliver specialist palliative care to people at the end of life, youll have shared clinical responsibility for patients referred to the hospice, supported by our community manager and the medical team.

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing qualification at degree level
• Post registration degree level qualification in palliative care or oncology
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Leadership experience
• Advanced communication qualification
• Advanced physical assessment qualification or willingness to undertake
• Independent prescriber or willingness to undertake
• Sound knowledge of palliative and end of life topics and confidence to practice within the role

Desirable

• Masters degree in palliative care or similar, or willingness to undertake
• Degree/degree modules in leadership/management
• Teaching qualification
• Practice assessor and supervisor
• Research experience

Attitude and Behaviours

Essential

• Ability to effectively manage self and teams
• A positive attitude to all aspects of work including supporting and embracing change and managing uncertain situations
• Quality focused 'customer care' ethos
• Confident decision maker
• Ability to travel independently throughout the locality and access to suitable vehicle for business purposes
• Ability to work on own initiative, independently and as part of a team
• Confident and self aware of own limitations and professional boundaries
• Resilient practitioner with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to foster positive relationships
• High standard of diplomacy, integrity and reliability
• Resilient practitioner
• Professional, confident and compassionate approach to work and people
• Routinely demonstrates integrity and emotional intelligence
• Demonstrable commitment to St Catherine's vision, mission and values.
• Ability to operate in multidisciplinary environment

Desirable

• Proactive, influential and motivational leader

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post registration experience and expertise in palliative care
• Advanced physical and risk assessment skills
• Comprehensive and demonstrable individualised assessment, care planning with advance care planning experience
• Demonstrable advanced communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of community and extended teams
• Sound community awareness
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate in writing, in person and by telephone
• Listening negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience of developing and teaching others both formal and informal
• Demonstrable mentorship skills
• Demonstrable computer literacy
• Demonstrable knowledge and awareness of quality and governance

Desirable

• People management experience including performance management, workforce planning and recruitment
• Experience of ensuring continuous improvement
• Confident presentation skills
• Experience of delivering formal education
• Experience of contributing to the development of governance frameworks
• Experience of working with care homes.
• Experience of working with people living with dementia and frailty
• A knowledge of hospice and national initiatives relating to palliative care
• Prescribing experience in palliative symptom control and end of life care

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).