Palliative Care CNS Lead

1 month ago


Basingstoke, United Kingdom Hampshire Hospitals NHS Full time

Job overview

Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust considers the Clinical Nurse Specialist role as a keystone to the optimal care of our patients and to the success of our Trust. The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate care is the most important objective for the organisation. This advanced clinical leadership role therefore has the authority required to deliver the responsibilities and accountabilities outlined in this job description.

 The palliative care service operates over 7 days.

 The Palliative Care business unit operates across all Trust sites. This includes the hospice in Andover and Winchester, links to the hospice in Basingstoke and various activities in the community. This is a cross site role.

Main duties of the job

The delivery of a seven-day, twenty-four-hour service by the team or area for which you have responsibility this includes:

· Expert professional adviser

· Clinical Lead for the specialist service

· Leads the development in own speciality services

· Delivers education to the multi-disciplinary team

· Assessment and treatment of own caseload of patients

· Responsible for clinical governance within the team.

· Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved

· Leads on clinical audit

· Adviser for the speciality both internally and externally

· Lead on the highly complex patient assessment, where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment

· To develop the above skill set with the staff who report to you or for whom you have a responsibility to train

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Professional UK registration e.g. NMC Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience A Masters degree or evidence of working towards a Masters degree in the relevant field

Desirable criteria

Additional Post graduate learning in specialist field including master’s degree or working towards Level 5 Certificate/Diploma in Management and Leadership, or equivalent Non-medical prescriber

Experience

Essential criteria

Evidence of significant post registration clinical work experience to masters level Design and delivery of effective organisation wide training programmes and/or interventions. Experience of staff supervision and mentorship including, employee relations, performance, conduct and training needs analysis Evidence of leading on audits and Quality Improvement projects

Desirable criteria

Experience of project management for policy development or large-scale projects Experience of workforce budgets and staff development planning

Skills

Essential criteria

Highly specialised Clinical Skills appropriate to the relevant speciality of Palliative Care Advanced communication skills including, to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise and negotiate effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information.

Desirable criteria

The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle
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