Palliative Care CNS

Job summary

Are you passionate about providing high quality Palliative and End of Life care within the community?

Would you like to work in a team that has been rated outstanding for end of life care?

Yes? Then do come and join our experienced Palliative Care Team!

You will be part of a well-established and highly regarded team within Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, working within a MDT environment including medical staff, therapists and Clinical Nurse Specialists. You will be contributing to the development and delivery of this vital service working in collaboration with our hospital Palliative Care Team.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills, knowledge and confidence within our supportive team. Enabling you to become an autonomous practitioner demonstrating the ability to make clinical judgements using expert knowledge and skills, to provide the highest standard of holistic care for our patients and their families.

Main duties of the job

What we look for:

• Someone who is enthusiastic about working patients and their families with complex palliative care needs in the community
• Someone who is able to provide symptom management and psychological and social support to patients and their families
• Someone who can provide education to Health care professionals, patients and their families
• Someone who works well in a team but also able to work autonomously and has an understanding of community working or willing to learn

What we Offer:

• There is access to clinical expertise and oversight to enable the optimal care of our patients 7 days a week.
• There will be access to continued professional development and support especially for those with little palliative care or community experience
• Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview

About us

Who we are: The Palliative Care team operates across all Trust sites. This includes the hospice in Andover and the new hospice in Winchester and in Basingstoke we have a hospital and community team.

The vision at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to provide outstanding care for every patient. We serve a population of nearly 600,000 people across Hampshire and West Berkshire as well as some people who access our specialist services from across the country.

Created in January 2012 the Foundation Trust prioritises the provision of exceptional, compassionate, care delivered by the valued staff working in a culture of collaboration and mutual respect. HHFT employs circa 6,000 people and had a turnover of £382m in 17/18

Four core values (CARE) Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Encourage. These are in place to support of four clear objectives, provide outstanding care of patients, empowering all members of staff, sustainable growth and innovating for the future.