Clinical Nurse Specialist (9 month maternity cover)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Hold and manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs in the Palliative rapid response team (PRT), from referral through assessment, planning, coordination and evaluation to bereavement support / first contact through assessment, prioritisation and allocation to the right RGP service.
• Carry out advanced holistic assessment, using advanced clinical reasoning to interpret complex, uncertain and competing information and to decide, often without direct observation, what is happening and what should happen next.
• Prescribe as a non-medical prescriber within RGP policy, and support colleagues' safe medicines management.
• Provide highly specialist advice on palliative and end of life care to GPs, district nurses, care homes, hospital teams and RGP colleagues.
• Deliver hands-on care when it is right for the patient, modelling the standard you expect of others.
• Keep and oversee accurate records, and set the documentation standard for the team.
• Exercise significant freedom to act within professional guidelines; be the person others escalate to, and know when to involve medical and senior colleagues.
• Lead the service day to day: allocate and prioritise PRT referrals and visits, oversee the work of the team including bank colleagues, and keep the service safe across the rota.
• Line-manage the posts named in the role summary: one-to-ones, IPR, personal development plans, probation reviews and first-stage people process with HR support.
• Resolve concerns where possible, contribute to formal complaint responses and investigations, lead or take part in duty of candour conversations with patients and families when something has gone wrong, and share the learning with the team.
• Contribute to service reviews, rota planning and resource management with the BOPM, and deputise clinically when asked.

Job responsibilities

• Hold and manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs in the Palliative rapid response team (PRT), from referral through assessment, planning, coordination and evaluation to bereavement support / first contact through assessment, prioritisation and allocation to the right RGP service.
• Carry out advanced holistic assessment, using advanced clinical reasoning to interpret complex, uncertain and competing information and to decide, often without direct observation, what is happening and what should happen next.
• Prescribe as a non-medical prescriber within RGP policy, and support colleagues' safe medicines management.
• Provide highly specialist advice on palliative and end of life care to GPs, district nurses, care homes, hospital teams and RGP colleagues.
• Deliver hands-on care when it is right for the patient, modelling the standard you expect of others.
• Keep and oversee accurate records, and set the documentation standard for the team.
• Exercise significant freedom to act within professional guidelines; be the person others escalate to, and know when to involve medical and senior colleagues.
• Lead the service day to day: allocate and prioritise PRT referrals and visits, oversee the work of the team including bank colleagues, and keep the service safe across the rota.
• Line-manage the posts named in the role summary: one-to-ones, IPR, personal development plans, probation reviews and first-stage people process with HR support.
• Resolve concerns where possible, contribute to formal complaint responses and investigations, lead or take part in duty of candour conversations with patients and families when something has gone wrong, and share the learning with the team.
• Contribute to service reviews, rota planning and resource management with the BOPM, and deputise clinically when asked.