Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate with be a passionate leader with sound knowledge of end of life care, confidence in care planning and individual assessments. With computer literacy and a resilient and compassionate approach.

If you have experience teaching and developing others, the ability to listen, plan and communicate and hold strong quality and governance awareness, we would love to hear from you!

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 communicator and decision maker
• 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
• Highly resilient practitioner
• Routinely demonstrates integrity and emotional intelligence
• Professional, confident and compassionate approach to work and people
• Ability to travel independently throughout the locality and access to suitable vehicle for business purposes
• Demonstrable commitment to St Catherine's vision, mission and values.

Desirable

• Proactive, influential and motivational colleague and leader

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing qualification at degree level
• Post registration degree level qualification in palliative care or oncology
• Evidence of continued professional development related to this position
• 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 modules towards achieving
• Degree/degree modules in leadership/management
• Teaching qualification
• Practice assessor and supervisor
• Research experience

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post registration experience and expertise in palliative care
• Knowledge of disease processes at the end of life
• 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 at a senior level and as part of community and extended statutory teams
• Sound community awareness
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate in writing, in person and by telephone
• Listening, negotiating and influencing skills
• Demonstrable computer literacy
• Awareness of quality and governance processes
• Experience of developing and teaching others both formal and informal

Desirable

• 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 and medication recommending 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).