Community Nurse Specialist
Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice, Keighley Road, Oxenhope, BD22 9HJ
30 hours per week
£18.81- £21.31 per hour. £36,780 - £41,669 Per annum, pro rata, depending on experience. 12 month fixed term contract
Be there when it matters!
There has never been a more important time to provide high quality, specialist end-of-life care to support patients and their families.
About us
Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice is in Oxenhope, near Keighley. As well as expert palliative care, we support people with life-limiting conditions, and their families. We work across Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven, and north Bradford.
About the Role
Sue Ryder are pleased to invite applications from experienced nurses to join a well-established friendly team as a Community Clinical Nurse Specialist in Oxenhope.
The duties of this role will include assessing referrals for admission to the service, performing comprehensive assessment of patients, planning, implementing and evaluating care delivery according to changing healthcare needs, identifying issues which are deemed to be actual/potential palliative care emergencies, compiling action plans to mitigate distress, ensuring such plans are developed, documented and communicated in a collaborative way with other professionals, patients and their families. As well as:
• Using advanced assessment skills to identify reversible symptoms, develop a plan of care and implement.
• Providing holistic specialist care for patients in accordance with their needs, wishes and culture. This includes clinical assessment, planning care, monitoring progress, requesting appropriate investigations, and acting on the results.
• Establish and maintain effective communication, often of a highly complex and contentious nature, with patients, carers/relatives, and professionals across health and social services. Using verbal and written communication and negotiating skills breaking down barriers to understanding with various individuals.
About you
We are looking to recruit a registered nurse with experience as a palliative care nurse or would consider a nurse with experience in palliative care and evidence of continued professional development in this specialty. You should have excellent communication skills and qualifications in advanced clinical assessment and mentorship.
For more details, please visit our website.
While we do not mandate the COVID-19 vaccination, we strongly encourage anyone working closely with vulnerable people to be fully vaccinated. Sue Ryder has a duty to protect those in our care and the vaccination is considered best practice to protect yourself and others from the virus.
If you want more than just a job, we want you.
Join the team and be there when it matters.
Sue Ryder supports people through the most difficult times of their lives. Whether that’s a terminal illness, the loss of a loved one or a neurological condition – we’re there when it matters. Our doctors, nurses and carers give people the compassion and expert care they need to help them live the best life they possibly can.
