Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Nottinghamshire Healthcare are delighted to offer a new opportunity to join our Specialist Palliative Care Service based at Bassetlaw Hospice.
We are advertising for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our established team. The Clinical Nurse Specialist role provides expert symptom management and psychological support to patients and those important to them. Based at Bassetlaw Hospice you will provide support across the Bassetlaw community setting.
You will join a team of 3 other nurse specialists working under the clinical leadership of a Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
This post will provide specialist palliative care support and advice to patients within their own homes.
As a specialist in palliative care you will provide expert clinical support to patients and those important to them, in the community setting. This will include management of pain and symptom control as well as psychological support and care in the last days of life.
As well as a clinical role you will give expert telephone advice to colleagues and other providers and processing referrals in to the team and wider palliative care services.
As an expert in your field you will also support the delivery of a portfolio of training and education to staff in all settings. This will include direct teaching and shadowing and peer support.
You will be an independent nurse prescriber or willing to work towards this on appointment.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.
Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
This is a fantastic opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about palliative care and eager to develop in this field.
You will have excellent communication and influencing skills and be confident at undertaking holistic assessments and making recommendations for care based on expert knowledge and skill.
You will be able to work in pressured environments with frequent exposure to emotional distress and death and dying.
We are particularly interested to receive applications from professionals with a background in urgent and acute care, elderly medicine and broader non malignant disease.
In return the successful candidate will join a caring and supportive team. You will be supported to develop and access further training and supervision to meet your individual needs. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss the role in more detail.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024
We are advertising for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our established team. The Clinical Nurse Specialist role provides expert symptom management and psychological support to patients and those important to them. Based at Bassetlaw Hospice you will provide support across the Bassetlaw community setting.
You will join a team of 3 other nurse specialists working under the clinical leadership of a Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
This post will provide specialist palliative care support and advice to patients within their own homes.
As a specialist in palliative care you will provide expert clinical support to patients and those important to them, in the community setting. This will include management of pain and symptom control as well as psychological support and care in the last days of life.
As well as a clinical role you will give expert telephone advice to colleagues and other providers and processing referrals in to the team and wider palliative care services.
As an expert in your field you will also support the delivery of a portfolio of training and education to staff in all settings. This will include direct teaching and shadowing and peer support.
You will be an independent nurse prescriber or willing to work towards this on appointment.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.
Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
This is a fantastic opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about palliative care and eager to develop in this field.
You will have excellent communication and influencing skills and be confident at undertaking holistic assessments and making recommendations for care based on expert knowledge and skill.
You will be able to work in pressured environments with frequent exposure to emotional distress and death and dying.
We are particularly interested to receive applications from professionals with a background in urgent and acute care, elderly medicine and broader non malignant disease.
In return the successful candidate will join a caring and supportive team. You will be supported to develop and access further training and supervision to meet your individual needs. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss the role in more detail.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024
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