Job summary This community-based role involves travel across Exeter and surrounding areas and participating in seven-day service provision.
Why Join Us?
Retain your NHS pension Free staff parking Career development opportunities Flexible and compassionate workplace Wellbeing and mental health support Main duties of the job As a registered nurse with experience in palliative care or a related field, you will work with our multi-disciplinary team to provide exceptional, evidence-based, person-centred care for patients with complex, life-limiting illnesses.
You will manage a patient caseload, offer expert advice and interventions, and collaborate effectively with local GPs and Community Nurses as part of Hospiscare's renowned specialist care.
About us Hospiscare has been supporting people in Exeter, Mid and East Devon with terminal illnesses for over 40 years.
Our services include support at home, a specialist palliative care ward, out-patients clinics, and supportive therapies.
We support close to 2,200 local people each year, in some of the hardest times possible.
As a local charity, we raise around £10 million each year to continue to provide our care.
Our staff, volunteers and supporters help us to care for people when they're most in need, no matter what their individual circumstances may be.
We're proud to be rated as 'five star' by patients and families and as 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, to have been awarded a Mind Bronze Award for wellbeing at work and to be a Disability Confident employer.
Job description Job responsibilities Job Description1.
JOB DETAILS Job Title: Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Band: 6 Location: Community Hours: Ason contract, to include on-call Team/Directorate: Community Cluster Responsible To: Community Cluster Team Leader (CCTL) Responsible For: N/A Accountable to: Head of Community and Supportive Care Services2.
JOB PURPOSETo deliver an excellent standard of evidencebased specialist palliative nursing care and clinical advice.To promote dignity, encompassing a personcentred approach, to positively enhance the lives of patients in the communitywith complex life limiting illnesses.
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KEY RESULT AREAS/PRINCIPALDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Main ResponsibilitiesProvide advanced specialist palliative care bycontributing highly experienced clinical judgement and knowledge in complexpalliative and end of life care in order to promote best practice for adults withlife limiting illnesses.Demonstrate advanced communication skills andprofessionalism in all interactions with patients and those close to them,carers and other professionals in order to promote and maintain Hospiscarevalues.Contribute to the daily clinical leadership ofjunior staff within the community team to ensure team effectiveness, cover andcohesion.
Deliver education and learning, both internally andexternally, for all those involved in palliative/end of life care, to ensureevidence based practice.
Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary,complex care and Gold Standards Framework (GSF) or End of Life meetings topromote best practice.Contribute to Hospiscares clinical governance andaudit process in order to support continuing quality improvement and learning.Assess and identify complex bereavement andeffectively communicate with the Supportive Care team to enable a seamlesshandover into Hospiscares Bereavement Care Services.
InfectionPrevention and ControlMaintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and employees iseveryones responsibility.
All staff arerequired to adhere to Hospiscares Infection Prevention and Control Policy andmake every effort to maintain high standards of infection prevention andcontrol at all times.
This includesensuring personal and team compliance with all relevant policies andprocedures, and acting upon or reporting any identified risks.