Job summary
We are looking for a Specialist Nurse to join our Hospice at Home team. You will work in collaboration with the wider multi-professional team to deliver coordinated and seamless care. You will be responsible for coordinating the day to day activities of the Hospice at Home Service via practical community nursing and office based activity.
Main duties of the job
To coordinate the day
to day activities of the Hospice at Home Service via practical community nursing and office based activity. Accepting and processing referrals, ensuring
appropriate and timely services are delivered, working with H@H administrators,
H@H care staff and external agencies with the aim of providing high quality
care in patients homes. Preventing
unnecessary admission to acute or residential care settings and enabling
patients to be cared for and die at home.
Ensuring a robust professional service by contributing to the out of
hours service, working on a rota basis to provide cover 7 days per week,
directly managed by the Head of Hospice at Home, with delegated operational
responsibility in the absence of the Head of Hospice at Home.
About us
Longfield is a community hospice charity, in a beautiful setting near Stroud. We believe that everyone touched by a life-limiting illness in Gloucestershire should benefit from free hospice care. We support people to live well after diagnosis through a range of day services for them and their loved ones and, when the time comes, we provide hospice at home care, enabling them to have the choice of dying in the comfort of their own home. We also provide support to their families and carers, including bereavement counselling.
We offer a competitive benefits package which includes 33 days holiday, Life Assurance scheme and the option to join a pension scheme or continue the NHS Superannuation pension scheme.
Longfield is a truly wonderful place to work and we are proud of our modern, purpose-built facilities, fantastic grounds, free parking and amazing staff and volunteers. The Specialist Nurse role is a highly rewarding and varied role with a well-regarded charity, which makes a genuine difference to lives and deaths across the county.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1
Scope
of Job:
·
Provide
clinical leadership, support and guidance to a team of Health Care Assistants,
Registered Nurses and Care Service Administrators employed by H@H.
·
Monitor
the standards of care and professional practice delivered to H@H patients and
their carers, through a structure governance and assurance framework.
·
Work
in collaboration with the wider multi-professional team to deliver coordinated
and seamless care.
·
Requirement
to cover at weekends and up to 10pm.
·
To
work in accordance with Longfield values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1
Scope
of Job:
·
Provide
clinical leadership, support and guidance to a team of Health Care Assistants,
Registered Nurses and Care Service Administrators employed by H@H.
·
Monitor
the standards of care and professional practice delivered to H@H patients and
their carers, through a structure governance and assurance framework.
·
Work
in collaboration with the wider multi-professional team to deliver coordinated
and seamless care.
·
Requirement
to cover at weekends and up to 10pm.
·
To
work in accordance with Longfield values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Experience in relevant speciality
- Educated to degree or working towards
- Evidence of a teaching/assessing qualification
- Competent and confident user of MS office products such as Word, Outlook + Excel
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Well developed organisational skills and experience of balancing conflicting workloads/priorities
- Ability to work collaboratively and network
- Presentation and Teaching skills
- Expert clinical skills
Desirable
- Desirable - Evidence of clinical specialist qualification in palliative care or oncology
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience within a health/social care environment
- Recent experience of working in a community setting
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Knowledge of patient services in palliative care
- Team Management
- Desirable - Sound knowledge of research and audit
- Knowledge and experience of clinical supervision and individual performance review
- Experience of working with carers
- Experience of writing briefing notes / reports
- Evidence and experience of coaching and mentoring
- Experience in use of Electronic patient records
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Experience in relevant speciality
- Educated to degree or working towards
- Evidence of a teaching/assessing qualification
- Competent and confident user of MS office products such as Word, Outlook + Excel
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Well developed organisational skills and experience of balancing conflicting workloads/priorities
- Ability to work collaboratively and network
- Presentation and Teaching skills
- Expert clinical skills
Desirable
- Desirable - Evidence of clinical specialist qualification in palliative care or oncology
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience within a health/social care environment
- Recent experience of working in a community setting
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Knowledge of patient services in palliative care
- Team Management
- Desirable - Sound knowledge of research and audit
- Knowledge and experience of clinical supervision and individual performance review
- Experience of working with carers
- Experience of writing briefing notes / reports
- Evidence and experience of coaching and mentoring
- Experience in use of Electronic patient records
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).
Additional information
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).
