Senior Community Nurse & Developmental Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• To act within your professional boundaries and capabilities, providing care for the presenting patient from understanding and listening to the patients needs, initiating the best course of treatment, and evaluating that episode of care.
• Organise and deliver the planned and responsive community service ensuring 24/7 continuity of patient care and integration with other Hospice and wider health economy services.
• Demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and care, including assessment and diagnostic skills for palliative and end of life patients who are referred into Rotherham Hospice Services.
• Leads the delivery of the Hospice advice and support line. With assistance of support tools devised by Hospice medics and clinical nurse specialists.
• To maintain clear concise documentation for own accountability and continuity of care.
• To communicate over the telephone and face to face in highly emotive situations and build rapport with patients and families you are meeting in many cases for the first time.
• To support quality improvement changes within the service, playing a key role to develop and expand the service.
• Deliver operational supervision, PDRs and appraisals for Health Care Support Workers.
• Undertake visits to verify expected deaths, following hospice protocol.
• Providing emotional and spiritual support for the families. Ensuring cohesive documentation to prevent any further distress for families.
• Triaging calls from wider healthcare services that require advice, guidance, education or our service to visit.
• Support patients and their families with advanced care planning. Explanation of the RESPECT process and completion of the documentation.
• Prescribing for both community patients and those on the inpatient unit if required as 2nd phase of the developing service.
• Providing senior nurse support, advice and nursing care to the inpatient unit, whilst firstly prioritising the adviceline and visits.
• Undertakes a designated role as a Hospice champion for safeguarding, tissue viability, falls or medications management.
• Act as advocate for patients/family referring directly to other MDT members, both within the hospice, community, and hospital, as appropriate.
• Organise admissions to the inpatient unit as part of the developing service.
• Provide education and support to the nursing and care homes in conjunction with the named care home nurse liaison service.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Confident and persuasive communicator.
• Approachable, confident, compassionate.
• Good time management and organisational skills.
• Committed to continuous quality improvement of services.
• Team player.
• Empowering leadership and management style.
• Commitment to equal opportunity.
• Professional, pleasant and friendly demeanour.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in palliative and end of life care.
• Working with patients in crisis, problem solving.
• Autonomous decision making.

Desirable

• Delivery of training to a wide range of health partners.
• Experience of supervising a team.
• Experience of using clinical record systems e.g.
• SystmOne, ICE.
• Community experience.

Skills / Abilities

Essential

• Effective time management and prioritisation of
• workload.
• Able to respond to changing needs and priorities
• Full clean driving licence and daily access to a car.
• Good levels of self-awareness and strong leadership

Desirable

• Knowledge of both pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to symptom management.
• An understanding of other Rotherham services that work
• to support patients.

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse.
• Degree in adult nursing or equivalent.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Mentorship/Teaching Qualification or equivalent
• Non-medical prescribing or willingness to undertake.

Desirable

• Advanced communication skills course.
• Post graduate certificate in palliative care.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).