Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:

• To provide professional and clinical leadership for CYPs with symptom and palliative care needs across care settings.
• To act as an expert clinical resource for symptom and palliative care for CYPs, their families and healthcare professionals across care settings. These settings will include home, hospice, GP and POSCU's
• To provide support to CYP's and their families where required through community visits to hospital, home or hospice along with relevant allied healthcare professionals as above.
• To provide expert clinical care to this group of CYPs and their families.
• To demonstrate a high degree of professional autonomy, using clinical judgment, to provide advice.
• To participate in the out of hours PATCH on-call rota when deemed competent to do so (and within 12 months of commencing the post) and there is a position available.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• First level registration
• Registered children's nurse
• Children's oncology qualification/experience
• First level degree
• Teaching qualification
• Willingness to undertake higher degree

Desirable criteria

• Children's community nursing qualification/experience
• Experience in research
• Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Physical assessment skills qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Nursing experience.

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working within symptom and/or palliative care.

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines.
• Evidence of delivering person-centred care and demonstrating organisational values in clinical practice.
• Evidence of leading practice improvements or influencing multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes.
• Able to communicate effectively with children, young people, families and multidisciplinary teams in sensitive and complex situations.
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• Evidence of innovative practice/evidence-based care.
• Ability to set and monitor standards.
• Able to prioritise competing demands and manage a complex caseload whilst maintaining safe and effective patient care.
• Ability to work effectively with members of the MDT across various boundaries.
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Ability to lead and influence professional colleagues

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to both sites if required.
• Flexibility of working hours to meet service needs
• Car owner / driver

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination - What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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