Contract type

Permanent

Location

Whittington/Sutton Coldfield

Hours

Full time or part time

Annual salary

F1 £44,805 to F3 £51,500 - pro rata for part time hours

(plus enhancements where applicable)

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (Prescriber) is a key senior role within the Nursing team, acting as the clinical specialist lead and overseeing the community nursing service for a defined area on a rotation basis.

Working with an integrated team of nurses, you will contribute to the overall care of patient and families referred to St Giles Hospice within the community setting. This role will report directly into the Clinical Lead for Community Services.

As a team member, you will contribute to a positive supportive working environment with an emphasis on teamwork and cooperation. You will participate in a rota system providing a 7 day a week, face to face and telephone service for patients and their families and, in the out of hours rota, providing telephone advice and support. This may include visiting out of hours in exceptional circumstances.

It is anticipated that the work plan will be 80% clinical (clinical management) 10% Service Development and 10% Education and Teaching.

The role includes activities such as audit, quality and risk management initiatives and Nurses working at an advanced level will:

·        Practice autonomously and be self-directed.

·        Appropriately analyse complex situations.

·        Undertake assessment of individuals using a range of different assessment methods, which may include physical examination, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or advanced health needs assessment.

·        Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision-making to determine evidence based therapeutic interventions; this may include prescribing medication and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.

·        Actively seek and participate in peer reviews of their own practice.

·        Appropriately define the boundaries of their practice and understand the parameters of their professional role.

Promote and participate in the implementation of the local and national strategies and St Giles Hospice core standards.

For the full job description please click the link below:

Job Description

If you want to have an informal chat about this role please contact Jane Mogford / Naomi Fisher on 01543 432 031

Qualifications

Essential 

• Registered Nurse (Degree/Masters level)  
• Current NMC Registration 
• Recognised teaching qualification or equivalent  
• Advanced Communication skills qualification  
• Independent Nurse Prescribing Level 6 minimum  
• Physical Health Assessment Level 6 minimum  
• Willing to undertake additional study as required

Desirable 

• Degree in specialist practice related to specialist palliative care 
• Community Nursing qualification  
• Leadership course 
• Management course 

Knowledge and experience

Essential

·        Community nursing experience

·        Experience and evidence of clinical audit

·        Published original work

·        Proven experience within specialist palliative care

·        Management experience

·        Experience and evidence of effective change management

·        Experience and evidence of research/evidence based practice

·        Experience and competence in managing complex palliative care cases - symptoms, psychological, grief/loss needs, ethical dilemmas and patient advocacy

·        Fully comprehends contemporary CNS role

·        Experience of development, implementation and appraisal of quality and audit initiatives

·        Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

·        Fully comprehends and implements research and evidence based practice process

·        Diverse specialist palliative care knowledge and awareness - national and local agenda

Values

·        Exhibits our hospice values and behaviours

Skills

Essential

·        Sound reflective and facilitation skills

·        Expert communication, counselling and interpersonal skills

·        Teaching skills - informal and formal and ability to contribute to education programme

·        Leadership skills

·        Management skills

·        Ability to work independently and as part of a team

·        Ability to make expert clinical decisions

·        Emotionally resilient

·        Excellent time/deadline management

·        Reflective practitioner

Personal Attributes

·        Empathetic

·        Team player

·        Able to work under pressure

·        Collaborative

·        Ambassador for St Giles Hospice

Other requirements

·        Valid driving licence

·        Eligibility to work in the UK

·        Please note that St Giles Hospice does not hold a sponsorship licence and is therefore unable to accept sponsorship requests

Benefits

• Up to 33 days holiday plus bank holidays (Pro-rata for part time employees)
• Eligible clinical staff transferring from the NHS will have their continuous service and annual leave recognised for up to 10 years and can continue their NHS pension contributions
• Group pension scheme, matching contributions of up to 8%
• Life assurance scheme, up to the state pension age
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits
• Enhanced sick pay, rising with service
• Access to blue light and charity worker discounts
• Free Parking

Health & Wellbeing

• The Hub Wellness Support
• Eligibility for flu vaccine
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders
• Cycle to work scheme

Professional Development

All staff complete a comprehensive induction programme which includes statutory and mandatory e-learning as well as training that is tailored to the individual’s need. All staff and volunteers should also attend an induction day.

Regular training and personal development opportunities, with internal career progression being a focal point of team growth

This post is subject to a Disclose and Barring Service (DBS) check.

We may review applications before the application review date, however, if you apply after the application review date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role, this may be earlier than the closing date.

If you have not heard within 14 days of the application close date, then please consider that your application has been unsuccessful at this time.

As part of your application your data will be managed in line with St Giles Hospice Privacy Policy and kept for 6 months. If you would like to see this in full, please visit https://www.stgileshospice.com/privacy-policy/

Should you require any further information, please email: [email protected]

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3)      I agree that should I be successful in this application, an application will be made to the Disclosure & Barring Service/Criminal Justice Information Service (Scotland) for Disclosure. I understand that should the disclosure not be to the satisfaction of the hospice any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment terminated.

We make every subject of a DBS check aware of the existence of the Code of Practice and make a copy available on request

Prospective employees will be advised that a criminal record will not automatically exclude them from being appointed.

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