Outpatients Clinical Nurse Specialist
What you will do
The purpose of the role is to provide high quality specialist palliative nursing care, skills, advice and support to patients, carers and those important to the patient. This role will support the delivery of planned care across Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.
This means you will be responsible to:
- Actively participate in the development of the organisations planned model of care.
- Demonstrate specialist skills and expertise in palliative care and offer advice, support and education to the primary health care team as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- Manage specialist planned care to a palliative nursing caseload whilst delivering high standards of personalised care.
- Engage in the full range of activities consistent with the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist including Nurse-Led Clinic, Assessment Clinic, Palliative Care Referral Centre (PCRC) triage, community and Living Well services as required.
- Improve patient outcomes and experience by providing physical and emotional support to patients and carers via coordinated care and informing and advising them on clinical and practical issues associated with their illness.
- Participate in activities such as audits and case reviews in order to improve the service.
- Act as a Rennie Grove and Peace Hospice Care ambassador within the community, actively demonstrating our values and positively promoting the specialist care we provide.
- As required, work across Rennie Grove and Peace Hospice Care sites (Watford and St Albans), or externally as required, to support safe and effective service delivery.
What you will need
For an informal chat about this role contact Rebecca Varvel, Business, Operations and Performance Manager - Living Well and Care Coordination Centres on [email protected]
Please click on the attached link for further information about Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care - https://renniegrovepeace.org/our-care-and-support/
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
Our commitment to Equality and Diversity
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.
