Job summary
As an organisation with a strong social purpose,we understand the strength we gain from having and supporting diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that colleagues from different backgrounds bring allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.
As an organisation keen to develop and retain our staff, we will provide successful candidates with:
Bespoke induction
Allocated mentor
Principles of Palliative Care course
Two Tier Dementia Course
DNACPR Course to be signed off as a Senior Responsible Officer
Access to educational opportunities provided by our internal Education Team
Eight-week secondment to the inpatient unit
Access to external study days and conferences
Access to an internal advanced symptom control course
Train the trainer for developing teaching skills
Generous benefit package detailed in job pack
This post involves working on a 7-day week rota.
Why apply for this role?
We offer a great working environment, a competitive pay and benefit package, flexible working and a strong team to support you.
Main duties of the job
Farleigh Hospice is the leading specialist palliative care provider in mid Essex, providing specialist support to patients and their families in both the community via our multidisciplinary locality care teams, and our inpatient unit.
We are now looking for skilled registered nurses who are interested in developing in-depth palliative care skills to be the Community Clinical Nurse Specialists of the future.This exciting new program is a 2-year training plan which once successfully completed will transition to a CNS role. Covering in-depth holistic assessments, complex symptom management, collaboration with the local and wider MDT, psychosocial and spiritual care and advance care planning you will develop the skill set to work autonomously in the provision of expert palliative care.
About us
Farleigh Hospice is a high performing organisation providing specialist palliative and end of life care for people with life limiting illness in the Mid Essex region.Our team at Farleigh has grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of the community we serve and we are looking for highly motivated Trainee Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Community team.
Are you a motivated, forward thinking, talented individual interested in delivering excellent specialist palliative care within a multidisciplinary team to patients and their families within mid Essex.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Trainee Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team. You will spend a two-year training period working towards providing specialist advice and care to hospice patients and their families. It is anticipated that as a full time post, 60% of your time will be spent working alongside the locality CNSs to develop your specialist skills and undertake the elements as set out in the development programme below, and 40% of your time, consolidating your skills as a registered nurse in providing direct clinical care, navigation, co-ordination and support to hospice patients and their families. On successful completion of your 2 year training programme, you will be promoted to a CNS role and will be expected to undertake the following:
Through holistic assessment, provide information, advice, psychosocial, symptom management and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals.
Work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it. Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret complex information, to enable them to determine their own future.
Use advanced communication skills in delivering highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously withstaff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means.
Work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within thelocality for patients who have complex palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is delivered.
Work as part of the MDT, but also work autonomously, making decisions and recommendations involving highly complexfactors, seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required,in order tomake sound decisionsaround palliative and end of life care.
Support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert, to work as one team.
Support and implement any streamlined locality processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology,including clear outcome measures, to produce efficient and highly performing community services.
Support the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the goodreputation of the Hospicee.g.local trusts, ICB, health and social care partners, businesses and voluntary organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Trainee Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team. You will spend a two-year training period working towards providing specialist advice and care to hospice patients and their families. It is anticipated that as a full time post, 60% of your time will be spent working alongside the locality CNSs to develop your specialist skills and undertake the elements as set out in the development programme below, and 40% of your time, consolidating your skills as a registered nurse in providing direct clinical care, navigation, co-ordination and support to hospice patients and their families. On successful completion of your 2 year training programme, you will be promoted to a CNS role and will be expected to undertake the following:
Through holistic assessment, provide information, advice, psychosocial, symptom management and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals.
Work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it. Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret complex information, to enable them to determine their own future.
Use advanced communication skills in delivering highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously withstaff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means.
Work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within thelocality for patients who have complex palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is delivered.
Work as part of the MDT, but also work autonomously, making decisions and recommendations involving highly complexfactors, seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required,in order tomake sound decisionsaround palliative and end of life care.
Support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert, to work as one team.
Support and implement any streamlined locality processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology,including clear outcome measures, to produce efficient and highly performing community services.
Support the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the goodreputation of the Hospicee.g.local trusts, ICB, health and social care partners, businesses and voluntary organisations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nurse Registration
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post-registration qualification in cancer/palliative care or long term conditions/or relevant subject
- Advanced Communications Skills Training
- Leadership training/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven post registration experience
- Demonstrable palliative or end of life care experience
- Experience of holistic assessment and end of life symptom management
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of working unsupervised, managing different patients and making decisions related to complex care planning
Other Requirements
Essential
- Driving license and car owner
- Satisfactory Criminal Records Disclosure
Skills/Ability/Knowledge
Essential
- Proven ability to successfully work with people and handle difficult and complex situations
- Ability to work under pressure, manage own stress and emotional responses and be aware of stress in others
- Ability to use a range of IT systems and software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365 and electronic patient record systems (such as SystmOne) as well as virtual systems e.g. Zoom, MS Teams
- Proven ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to motivate self and others and to lead by example
- Able to effectively resolve professional and ethical issues
- Ability to prioritise issues and tasks and manage own workload
- Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective analytical and judgmental skills to deal with complex cases
Qualities/Attributes
Essential
- Passionate about Hospice Care and enthusiasm for the vision of the organisation
- Team player who can work as part of our One Team ethos
- High level of emotional intelligence and resilience
- Flexible approach to work, with ability to work out of hours on occasions
- Committed to the development of palliative care skills in others
- Committed to working in partnership with people their relatives and carers other organisations and agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nurse Registration
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post-registration qualification in cancer/palliative care or long term conditions/or relevant subject
- Advanced Communications Skills Training
- Leadership training/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven post registration experience
- Demonstrable palliative or end of life care experience
- Experience of holistic assessment and end of life symptom management
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of working unsupervised, managing different patients and making decisions related to complex care planning
Other Requirements
Essential
- Driving license and car owner
- Satisfactory Criminal Records Disclosure
Skills/Ability/Knowledge
Essential
- Proven ability to successfully work with people and handle difficult and complex situations
- Ability to work under pressure, manage own stress and emotional responses and be aware of stress in others
- Ability to use a range of IT systems and software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365 and electronic patient record systems (such as SystmOne) as well as virtual systems e.g. Zoom, MS Teams
- Proven ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to motivate self and others and to lead by example
- Able to effectively resolve professional and ethical issues
- Ability to prioritise issues and tasks and manage own workload
- Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective analytical and judgmental skills to deal with complex cases
Qualities/Attributes
Essential
- Passionate about Hospice Care and enthusiasm for the vision of the organisation
- Team player who can work as part of our One Team ethos
- High level of emotional intelligence and resilience
- Flexible approach to work, with ability to work out of hours on occasions
- Committed to the development of palliative care skills in others
- Committed to working in partnership with people their relatives and carers other organisations and agencies
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).
