Clinical Nurse Specialist – Community
£30,518 pro rata plus enhancements for nights, weekends and bank holidays
30 hours per week (Monday to Friday with occasional weekends)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly and skilled community clinical nurse specialist team, based at Manorlands Hospice, providing specialist care and advice to community patients across Craven, Airedale, and Wharfedale as well as northern Bradford.
Benefits
• Employee benefits are role and location dependent but can include:
• Competitive enhanced pay for nights, weekends and public holidays
• NHS pension transferable
• Company pension scheme
• 25 days holiday - rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays (pro rata)
• Option to buy and sell up to five days holiday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Paid qualifications
• Corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services
• Relocation allowance
• Staff discount of 15% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org
• Season ticket loan
• Cash referral bonus scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Online Wellbeing Centre
• Free Will writing service
• Staff finance loans
• Free onsite parking
• Free uniform
• Carers leave policy
• Subsidised onsite meals and drinks
• Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities
The role of the clinical nurse specialist will involve;
• An NMC nursing registration is essential and the ideal applicant should have experience in palliative and end of life care, preferably in a community setting.
• Assessing referrals for admission to the community service and completing comprehensive assessments of patients with sensitive and complex palliative care needs.
• Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing healthcare needs
• 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
• Able to work autonomously and independently, with good collaborative team working skills
• Establish and maintain effective communication, often of a highly complex and contentious nature, with patients, carers/relatives, and professionals across health and social services. Within specialist assessments,
identify issues which are deemed to be actual/potential palliative care emergencies or crises and develop in a timely way, action plans to mitigate distress
• Ensure such plans are developed, documented and communicated in a collaborative way with other professionals, patients and their families.
This is a community post therefore your own driving license and car are essential.
Sue Ryder - Manorlands Hospice is situated in West Yorkshire in the village of Oxenhope. We provide specialist palliative care supports people with life-limiting conditions and those at end of life. We strive to provide holistic care for patients, family, carers and close friends.
Post subject to DBS and satisfactory references