Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for a better work-life balance? Do you have experience in complex care, A&E, critical care, or ICU settings? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Clinical Nurse Specialist!

Join our team and enjoy the work-life balance you've been seeking!

In this role, you'll:

• Take clinical ownership of your service user caseload, creating and managing bespoke care plans.
• Lead and deliver clinical training for Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers.
• Ensure a compliant, high-quality, person-centred care service.
• Review clinical paperwork and MAR Charts.
• Build strong relationships with service users and their care teams.
• Provide ongoing mandatory training and development in line with national standards.

Its a specialist role that requires clinical expertise along with the ability to manage and prioritise workloads. Were looking for someone who shares our values and is as passionate about care as we are.

Key clinical skills needed include:

• Airway Management (Tracheostomy Care)
• Ventilation Management
• Enteral Feeding
• Suctioning
• Experience of delivering clinical interventions with children and/or adults

Knowledge of spinal injury care, acquired brain injury care, and neurological conditions is beneficial. We offer additional training to enhance your skills.

You will be based at your local Apollo Home Healthcare office in Spennymoor, but some flexibility is required as you will be travelling to clientshomes across the North East region.

We are offering this role at 3 shifts per week, with core working hours of 9am 5pm, between Monday and Friday, and a salary up to £42,000 pro rata, plus bonuses and rewards.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now!

A valid NMC Pin, 2 years post-qualification experience, and a UK Driver's License with access to a vehicle are essential.

Read below for a further insight on this role from our Head of Clinical:

"The Clinical Nurse Specialist role offers nurses the best of both worlds with a combination of office-based duties such as delivering training, supporting the wider team and writing care plans with patient contact where you will spend time in the field building relationships with your patients and their families, developing bespoke care plans and upskilling HCAs to deliver clinical tasks.

The role is predominantly Monday to Friday 9-5, with some flexibility to meet the specific needs of your caseload, but you will always receive time back. This can sound to good to be true, but is just another example of the benefits of being part of the Apollo Home Healthcare team."

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Key clinical skills needed include:
• Airway Management (Tracheostomy Care)
• Ventilation Management
• Enteral Feeding
• Suctioning
• Experience of delivering clinical interventions with children and/or adults

Desirable

• Knowledge of spinal injury care, acquired brain injury care, and neurological conditions is beneficial. We offer additional training to enhance your skills.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews Vicarage

St. Andrews Road

Spennymoor

County Durham

DL16 6NE

Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)