Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)

Job summary
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic nurse to work within the Specialist Palliative Care team, 7-day service including bank holidays. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping and delivering an innovative service model that aims to provide compassionate, high-quality care to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families. You will need to have good clinical knowledge around end-of-life care, complex symptom control and advanced communication skills. We also encourage our Specialist Palliative Care team to take part in education both within the team and across the trust and will be expected to take on project work to improve service delivery.

Main duties of the job
As a band 6 clinical nurse specialist you will deliver expert clinical practice to patients with complex specialist palliative and end of life care needs. Your role will encompass elements of clinical practice, education, and service development whilst maintaining a strong focus on patient centered holistic care.

The successful candidate will work as part of the Hospital based Specialist Palliative Care Team. You will have experience in delivering end of life care and have the competence and confidence to assist in the management of patients with specialist palliative care needs. This will involve giving advice on symptom management, advance care planning , and delivering education to wider teams. You will work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team and will have excellent communication skills.

Informal visits are highly recommended.

About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job responsibilities
Please see attached Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist job description and person specification for further details. This includes main duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification
Essential

• NMC Registration
• Evidence of professional updating within the last 12 months (CPD)
• Experience within palliative care - able to demonstrate capability in complex patient assessment, holistic needs evaluation and managing symptom control
• Service development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and record keeping
• Positive and enthusiastic role model
• Courteous and polite
• Flexible approach to weekend working and some lone working
• Complex reasoning
• Ability to communicate with senior staff within the profession, and other professions, patients/carers
• Ability to demonstrate empathy and compassion with patients, relatives or carers
• Experience providing formal or informal teaching/mentorship to junior staff or students

Desirable

• Accredited palliative care course (e.g Princess Alice course) or degree
• Understanding of clinical audit and research implementation
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Use of databases
• Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
• Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.