Clinical Nurse Specialist / Clinical Paramedic Specialist
- NHS
- Part Time
- Tunbridge Wells
- 46148.00 - 52809.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Do you want to be part of a committed and supportive multi-disciplinary team that delivers empowering and compassionate care supporting people with a life limiting illness? Then this role is for you!
Main duties of the job
Your new role
As part of our model of care to ensure we have the right people, providing the right care in the right place and at the right time, we are offering Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) or Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS) roles, which are the equivalent to a Band 7, to work as part of our multi-disciplinary team within the Hospice Outreach Service in the community.
So, what does that mean? Our Hospice Outreach Team are the initial point of contact for all new community referrals and all telephone calls coming into the service. They are at the forefront of providing palliative advice and support to patients and families in the place they call home, including care homes and nursing homes. You will be part of a rota of clinicians covering our seven day a week service offering telephone support, as well as clinic and home-based assessments.
Our team care for patients who have a life limiting illness and our focus is on individualised care. We focus on improving quality of life and achieving patient centred goals. We care for people with long term conditions; including heart failure, respiratory disease, frailty and neurological conditions, as well as those with an oncological diagnosis.
At the Hospice, our team strive to work alongside other community teams and specialists to optimise patient experience and improve our team knowledge and development.
About us
To succeed in this role...
You are a motivated clinician with the ability to work as an independent practitioner, while also being part of a responsive and resilient team. You possess advanced communication skills and excellent presentation skills (both oral and written).
You have proven community or in-patient palliative care experience at Band 7 or have the equivalent level of experience working in the following related areas: Paramedic, General Medicine, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, Frailty, Respiratory Care, Cardiology or Oncology. You will have sound pharmacological knowledge of medications used within the specialty of palliative care /EOL care.
Why join our team? We have flexible working options to suit your work-life balance, and you can transfer your NHS pension. Other benefits include free parking at our Pembury site and a generous holiday allowance, with the ability to buy and sell additional holiday.
If you think youre right for this position, we would love to hear from you!
To discuss your application, request some further information, or to arrange a visit with us, please contact Dea Haysler or Samara Romans, Hospice Outreach Managerson 01892 820 515 [email protected]/[email protected]
Job responsibilities
Job Title
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) / Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS)
Reports to
Designated Service Manager
Location
Based at the Hospice buildings in Pembury, Kent, or Five Ashes, East Sussex, with potential requirement to work at other locations within West Kent and East Sussex.
Scope & Job Purpose
You will co-ordinate and deliver high quality care to patients with a terminal illness. Providing support and advice to patients in their own homes, community hospitals and care/nursing homes .
You will strive to help us to deliver Hospice advice and support to more people who need it, you will provide clinical advice and interventional support to other professionals on palliative care issues and play a significant role in helping patients to achieve their personal goals and preferred place of care.
Key Responsibilities
Deliverables/Outcomes
Effectively and efficiently manage patients, ensuring the right person is seeing the right patient in the right place at the right time.
Work as part of a team to achieve referral outcome measures as stated in the Hospice in the Weald Business Strategy.
Attendance at palliative care meetings held at GP practices.
Engage in and promote the use of End of Life Care tools.
Participate in the provision of high-quality information to patients and those important to them regarding their disease, treatment and services available; adapting this advice to suit individual needs.
Undertake the Advanced Physical Assessment of patients , ensuring a holistic assessment is completed so that, as an organisation, we can offer the best possible care for the patient and those important to them
Ensure symptom control and End of Life Care is delivered, documented and reviewed to the highest standard.
Ensure that the patient is reviewed at MDT or caseload review in accordance with NICE Guidance
Participate in the provision of a 7 day a week service including weekends and Bank Holidays. Participate in agreed methods of duty planning.
Management and Leadership
Liaise closely with line manger on control, distribution, and management of clinical workload.
Be cognizant of the Hospice in the Wealds Three-Year Strategy and Operational Business Plan.
Work to maintain a high level of risk awareness about self and patient safety
Assist in the development of policies, procedures, and guidelines to continuously improve ways of working.
Support and empower our volunteers and more junior members of the workforce
Communications and Teamwork
Advise and support the multi-disciplinary team to enable them to provide high quality care, planning ahead, giving advice on pain and symptom control, advanced care planning, social and psychological care, communication and use of resources.
Provide a high standard of sensitive communication with patients and those important to them, which maintains an individuals privacy and dignity.
Audit and Research
In consultation with managers, ensure all work is evidence based.
Contribute to performance and activity reports and analysis to Hospice in the Weald using ICT/information to produce intelligence for future service provision.
Develop, in conjunction with line management, mechanisms for auditing care within the service and implement changing practice as a result.
Participate in or support, where appropriate, nursing and/or collaborative clinical research in palliative care
Training and Development
Actively plan and participate in the provision of supervision/reflective practice to colleagues to support engaging development opportunities.
Undertake Hospice mandatory training and participate in wider training and development opportunities
Act as a role model and mentor to colleagues and to be an ambassador to neighbouring health and social care providers, providing informal education and support to staff in their provision of palliative care.
Work collaboratively with the multi-professional team to provide training to care homes on End of Life Care as required.
Undertake external training to enhance the CNS/ CPS role as appropriate
General
Maintain professionalism through adherence to recognized Codes (e.g. NMC, GMC, HPC, HCPC) and work within the boundaries of Hospice in the Weald policies
Maintain professional development though the Hospice Annual Review process to continuously update and improve knowledge and competencies
Engage in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the area you are working and achieve the required level of competence.
Any other duties that may be reasonably requested.
Strive for excellence always.
THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE AND IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE POST HOLDER AND ACCORDING TO FUTURE CHANGES/DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SERVICE.
Helping out - Fundraising Activities
Hospice in the Weald is a registered charity and not part of the NHS. We rely on support from the community we serve, to enable us to develop and deliver our services. It costs over £7 million to run the Hospice every year the majority of which comes from voluntary contributions from the general public. In addition, we have over 1000 volunteers giving their time to the Hospice by helping in every Service and Department.
We expect all members of staff to support the fundraising activities of the Hospice. We encourage every staff member to help out at, at least two fundraising activities every year. Opportunities to support fundraising activities are varied, and could include helping at fundraising or shop events, attending a cheque presentation or giving a short talk about the work of the Hospice to an interested group in the community.
Your manager will ask you which events you have helped out at, when you meet for one to one meetings and as part of the Annual Review process.
