Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-DV-44-D
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated nurse who is passionate about palliative and end of life care to join the hospital based Palliative Care team. You will play an active part in clinical practice, education, research/audit and the implementation of national guidelines.
This is a permanent Band 7 Macmillan Palliative Care CNS post.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established dynamic multi disciplinary team who provide specialist advice and support to patients, their relatives and all members of the health care teams with the hospital. The service is offered to patients with both malignant and non-malignant disease. You will be an expert within the field and be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with specialist needs. The role covers a 7 day specialist palliative care visiting service within the hospital.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applications for this post are invited from nurses who have experience at a senior level in Palliative and EOLC care. You should also have a degree, a palliative care qualification and excellent communication skills. You should be committed to continuing professional development and education.
We offer a friendly and challenging working environment with a strong commitment to personal professional development.
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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Browning / Emma Fitzpatrick-burke
- Job title
- Palliative care team leaders
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6 15 4879
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