Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the specialist palliative care team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. The service spans across hospital and community inclusive of Rosewood Oncology and Palliative Care centre at Dewsbury District Hospital. If you are a dynamic individual and a team player with excellent communication and clinical skills then this role may be for you.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialised complex palliative care advice and support to patients with a diagnosis of cancer or other life limiting illness, and their carers within both the acute and community setting. To maintain and improve standards of care and promote a seamless service within a multi-professional framework. This will be achieved through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit of professional activities, taking into account objectives of the clinical service group, corporate objectives and within the Clinical Governance Framework.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key requirements
- Organises, prioritises and evaluates workload based on accepted referral criteria and discharge criteria in line with operational protocols.
- Act as a role model and clinical expert within Specialist Palliative Care, both within the Trust and externally.
- Facilitate clinical care by providing expert assessment. Determine priorities of care and advise on symptom control, emotional, psychological, spiritual and social care.
- Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within Specialist Palliative Care, especially in relation to ongoing care needs.
- Work collaboratively with primary care colleagues through the implementation of and attendance at Gold Standards Framework meetings, other associated forums .and shared governance initiatives.
- Work in partnership with other health care and Specialist Palliative Care providers such as care homes and hospices, referring appropriately and facilitating a seamless service for patients.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives.
- Demonstrate knowledge in relation to pattern of disease, markers of disease progression and understand the range of treatment available.
- Demonstrate knowledge of drugs used for the control of symptoms.
- Develop own ‘expert’ clinical knowledge and participate in the development of others' clinical knowledge.
- Undertake clinical supervision of nursing colleagues on an individual or group basis.
- Provide appropriate support and advice to bereaved carers known to the Specialist Palliative Care service and to refer on to local bereavement services as appropriate.
- Act as a core team member of the Specialist Palliative Care MDT.
- Recognise ethical and legal issues which have implications for nursing practice and take appropriate actions.
- Promote the use of nationally recognised end of life care tools to improve the quality of care.
- Continually monitor standards of care and participate in the improvement of care through benchmarking, clinical audit and research.
- Evaluate and disseminate research findings and facilitate evidence-based practice.
- Will have responsibility for supporting the lead nurse in leading identified and agreed aspects of the service, in the development of care systems, protocols and guidelines and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with a focus on quality improvement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key requirements
- Organises, prioritises and evaluates workload based on accepted referral criteria and discharge criteria in line with operational protocols.
- Act as a role model and clinical expert within Specialist Palliative Care, both within the Trust and externally.
- Facilitate clinical care by providing expert assessment. Determine priorities of care and advise on symptom control, emotional, psychological, spiritual and social care.
- Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within Specialist Palliative Care, especially in relation to ongoing care needs.
- Work collaboratively with primary care colleagues through the implementation of and attendance at Gold Standards Framework meetings, other associated forums .and shared governance initiatives.
- Work in partnership with other health care and Specialist Palliative Care providers such as care homes and hospices, referring appropriately and facilitating a seamless service for patients.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives.
- Demonstrate knowledge in relation to pattern of disease, markers of disease progression and understand the range of treatment available.
- Demonstrate knowledge of drugs used for the control of symptoms.
- Develop own ‘expert’ clinical knowledge and participate in the development of others' clinical knowledge.
- Undertake clinical supervision of nursing colleagues on an individual or group basis.
- Provide appropriate support and advice to bereaved carers known to the Specialist Palliative Care service and to refer on to local bereavement services as appropriate.
- Act as a core team member of the Specialist Palliative Care MDT.
- Recognise ethical and legal issues which have implications for nursing practice and take appropriate actions.
- Promote the use of nationally recognised end of life care tools to improve the quality of care.
- Continually monitor standards of care and participate in the improvement of care through benchmarking, clinical audit and research.
- Evaluate and disseminate research findings and facilitate evidence-based practice.
- Will have responsibility for supporting the lead nurse in leading identified and agreed aspects of the service, in the development of care systems, protocols and guidelines and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with a focus on quality improvement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).
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.
