Community Nurse Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description Position

ROLE PURPOSE - To coordinate the operational management of the community specialist palliative care team, who support patients and those most important to them, in their preferred place of care and death.

To provide managerial and leadership guidance and support to the team of CNSs, Development CNS, Registered Nurses, and Student Nurse Associates as required.

To support the Care Direct to deliver the clinical, strategic, and operational objectives of the organisation.

To act as a resource and support to health and social care providers involved in the delivery of palliative care through the sharing of advice, information, and education.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide advanced level palliative nursing interventions and ensure a coordinated and effective service in the hospice and community setting.

Advise and support Health Care Professionals with advanced symptom control, ethical issues, and highly complex nursing interventions.

Provide day to day operational coordination and management of workload allocation to meet fluctuating demands, liaising with other teams to ensure equity of resources, prioritisation, and effective time management.

Lead regular and effective multidisciplinary caseload management meetings, ensuring attention to detail and appropriate management plans are in place.

Participate in the Senior Nurse Manager On call service (on a rotational basis).

Develop and support the team through the continuous performance review programme and regular 1 to 1s, acting as a role model and demonstrating strong leadership and team player skills and appropriate delegation skills, to empower them to develop both professionally and personally.

Participate in promoting clinical effectiveness, quality assurance and practice development activities, which will include audit, benchmarking, service review and clinical supervision.

Ensure outcome measures demonstrate the effectiveness of hospice care, which is in line with the CQC single assessment framework.

Identify and initiate risk assessment processes to determine risks to health and wellbeing of patients with complex care needs, taking action to minimise risks.

Work proficiently and effectively within the relevant legal, ethical, and professional frameworks applicable to patients palliative care practice in the community at all times, including the NMC Code of Practice and Care Quality Commission

Be an active member of the multi-professional team, working closely and collaborating with colleagues and wider Hospice team to ensure patients needs are met to a consistently high standard. To attend planning, review and debrief meetings as appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and evidence
• of recent CPD.
• Mentorship qualification.
• Nursing degree in palliative care / oncology or other
• appropriate subject.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of supervising, managing, mentoring, and leading
• staff, supporting their practice and development.
• Experience in research audit, standard setting and / or
• clinical governance.
• Experience in the management of complex needs and
• medicines at the end of life.

Other Knowledge, skills and personal qualities

Essential

• Advanced communication skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and
• interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate
• effectively with a range of audiences.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload, meet
• deadlines and delegate appropriately as well as managing
• difficult situations with a wide range of people.
• Compassionate and patient focused.
• Enthusiastic and positive attitude.
• Self-motivated, resilient, flexible, and able to deal with
• challenges with a positive and proactive outlook.
• Willingness to participate in the senior nurse on call rota.

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

St Peter & St James Hospice

Address

North Common Road

North Chailey

Lewes

East Sussex

BN8 4ED

Employer's website

https://stpjhospice.org/ (Opens in a new tab)