Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist - #136773

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated nurse with a passion for palliative and end-of-life care to join our hospital-based Palliative Care Team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a well-established and dynamic multi-disciplinary team dedicated to providing specialist advice and support to patients, their families, and healthcare professionals.

About You

• Have significant experience at a senior level in palliative and end-of-life care.
• Hold a degree and a palliative care qualification.
• Possess excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Are committed to continuing professional development and education.
• Are working towards or willing to complete physical assessment and independent prescribing within the first 1–2 years.
  
  

What We Offer

• A supportive and dynamic team environment.
• Opportunities for ongoing professional development.
• A challenging yet rewarding career in specialist palliative care.
  
  

Main duties of the job

As a Macmillan Palliative Care CNS, You Will

• Provide expert clinical support to patients with both malignant and non-malignant disease.
• Manage a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs.
• Contribute to education, research, and the implementation of national guidelines.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to enhance patient care.
• Support a 7-day specialist palliative care visiting service within the hospital.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Act as a clinical expert in palliative care, providing specialist advice, guidance, and supervision to clinical staff, patients, and carers.
• Promote best practice in palliative and end-of-life care through expert consultation and case management.
• Support the development of individualised care plans, ensuring they align with patient preferences and national palliative care standards.
• Work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs while adopting the key worker role, as agreed with the Palliative Care Team Leader.
  
  

Please see Job Description and Job Specification for further information

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered General nurse with degree in nursing studies
• MSc in speciality or evidence of working towards
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Mentor prep
• Advanced assessment skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Oncology/Palliative Care Qualification
• Communication skills training
• Knowledge of palliative care in the acute sector
• Independent nurse prescribing
  
  

Competencies

Essential criteria

• Good leadership skills
• Experience in leading/managing a team
• Experience of change management
• Education of staff and patients
• Experience of audit
• Experience in service improvement
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Recognised leadership course
• Project management
• Report writing
  
  

Specialist criteria

Essential criteria

• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Management of a caseload
• Training and education of medical staff
• Clinical leadership skills and experience in a senior clinical role
• Recent use of audit and good analytical skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Oncology experience
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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