Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join our Salisbury Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Community CNS Team on a substantive post working full time hours.

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated nurse ideally with clinical palliative care knowledge and experience at Band 6, whom is confident in decision-making, innovative and with a passion to always improve.

The role will involve providing expert symptom control advice and psychological support. You will hold a caseload of patients in a geographical area, linked to GP practices. You will based at Salisbury Hospice and travel into the community setting, so access to transport is essential.

We have strong links with all of our external professional colleagues and are regularly involved with GSF and MDT meetings.

Main duties of the job

The Specialist Palliative Care Nurse is an expert in ensuring high quality palliative care is delivered to patients and their families. They are able to work independently, as well as part of the Salisbury Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Service and with external health care teams.

To offer the patient and families the skills of a clinical nurse specialist in symptom control, social, emotional, psychological and spiritual care.

To offer advice, support and education to the primary health care teams, community and hospital staff where appropriate, as part of a multi-professional team.

To work from using a multi-professional approach to care.

Experience of holding conversations around advance care planning and using end of life care tools in a community environment

To participate in quality initiatives within the department.

Experience of delivering both formal and informal teaching.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk