Clinical Nurse Specialist inSt Augustine's Gardens inSt Augustine's Gardens PUBLISHED
TUE 28 JAN 2025
Band 7: £46,148 to £52,809 a year
PERMANENT GOOD SALARY
CASELOAD HOLISTIC MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ON-CALL
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices rImoNio7
Opportunity to provide advanced level symptom management and holistic care to children with life-threatening illnesses, making a significant impact on their quality of life.
Collaboration with a multi-disciplinary professional team, enhancing teamwork skills and providing a supportive working environment.
Participation in a 24/7 on-call rota provides varied experiences and enriches professional development through exposure to diverse clinical situations.
Ability to work autonomously while also receiving clinical leadership advice, fostering independence and confidence as a practitioner.
Engagement in continuous education and training opportunities, helping to maintain and expand specialist-level palliative care knowledge and skills.
The role allows for significant contributions to the broader healthcare community by providing clinical expertise, advice, and training to various professionals in health, social care, and education sectors.
Flexibility in working methods (face-to-face, telephone, and virtual consultations) enhances work-life balance and adapts to the needs of families and children.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist at St Augustine's Gardens with East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices will provide advanced symptom management and comprehensive care for children with life-threatening illnesses and complex health needs across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. This role requires the nurse to manage a caseload, conduct clinical assessments through various methods, and develop individualized symptom management plans. The position also involves participating in a 24/7 on-call rota, delivering support for children and families at home, and collaborating with multi-professional teams to coordinate care in diverse settings including hospitals and schools.
Candidates should possess extensive pediatric palliative care knowledge, excellent communication and time management skills, and a strong commitment to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. The role includes acting as a point of contact for symptom control issues, delivering training to other professionals, and providing clinical leadership and expertise to ensure the integration of services. Those with relevant qualifications may also independently prescribe medications as part of their practice.
Candidates should possess extensive pediatric palliative care knowledge, excellent communication and time management skills, and a strong commitment to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. The role includes acting as a point of contact for symptom control issues, delivering training to other professionals, and providing clinical leadership and expertise to ensure the integration of services. Those with relevant qualifications may also independently prescribe medications as part of their practice.
Provide advanced level symptom management, care and support to children with life-threatening illnesses and complex health care needs living in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and North East and West Essex as part of the EACH Symptom Management Nursing Service.
Participate in an on call rota, triaging telephone calls and undertaking face to face visits to deliver the symptom management service across the whole EACH catchment area as required.
This 24/7 service also provides support for children and their families at home and clinical leadership advice and support to children receiving core hospice services across EACH.
The team, consisting of 12.5 wte (nurses and matrons), acts as a point of contact for symptom control and management issues for professionals and teams within the regional managed clinical network (MCN); and with the increasing capacity within the tertiary based Specialist Palliative Care Team (RAaFT)
Are you:
- Enthusiastic?
- Hard working?
- An autonomous worker?
Do you have:
- High level of paediatric palliative care knowledge and experience?
- A passion to provide high quality evidence based care?
- Excellent communication skills Great time management skills?
Responsibilities include:
- Working autonomously to provide holistic, evidence based, advanced level nursing care to BCYPs with life threatening or life limiting conditions.
- Undertaking clinical assessments / consultations using face to face, telephone and virtual methods.
- Managing a caseload within the EACH catchment area.
- Develop, review and evaluate comprehensive symptom management plans.
- Work collaboratively as part of a 24 hour on call rota.
About us
As an autonomous practitioner provide holistic and evidence based advanced level nursing care to children and young people with complex palliative care, pain and symptom control needs as an integral part of the EACH multi-professional core service teams, MCN and Regional Specialist Childrens Palliative Care Team.
- Undertake clinical assessment / consultation using face to face, telephone and virtual IT methods as required.
- Managing a caseload within the EACH catchment area
- Act as appoint of contact for symptom control advice for children and young people across the continuum of care in the full range of settings (home, hospital, hospice, school, residential placement).
- Develop and maintain specialist level palliative care knowledge and skills across a range of procedures and practices including medicines management.
- Participate in the 24/7 on call rota, triaging telephone calls and undertaking face to face visits to deliver the symptom management service across the EACH catchment area as required. Additional hours worked when on call are paid over contracted hours.
- Collaborate with all members of the multi professional team, EACH and MCN/specialist team to co-ordinate safe discharges including the on-call medical practitioners out of hours.
- Provide clinical expertise, advice, support and training opportunities to health, social care and education sector professionals throughout EACH and the Region to ensure a coordinated multi-disciplinary approach to the provision of palliative care for children and young people.
- Develop, review and evaluate comprehensive symptom management plans, coordinating and supporting their implementation and use within EACH core service teams and the Region.
- Provide clinical advice, expertise and support for care co-ordination teams in EACH and undertake a lead professional role when agreed with the multi-disciplinary team within the MCN and specialist team.
- Develop, participate in and deliver training within the EACH education and training programme and other MCN / regional / national / international training events as required.
- Act as an independent prescriber within scope of professional practice (those with relevant qualification).
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