As a Trainee Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team. You will spend a two-year training period.....
As a Trainee Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team. You will spend a two-year training period working towards providing specialist advice and care to hospice patients and their families. It is anticipated that as a full time post, 60% of your time will be spent working alongside the locality CNSs to develop your specialist skills and undertake the elements as set out in the development programme below, and 40% of your time, consolidating your skills as a registered nurse in providing direct clinical care, navigation, co-ordination and support to hospice patients and their families. On successful completion of your 2 year training programme, you will be promoted to a CNS role and will be expected to undertake the following: Through holistic assessment, provide information, advice, psychosocial, symptom management and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals. Work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it. Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret complex information, to enable them to determine their own future. Use advanced communication skills in delivering highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously withstaff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means. Work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within thelocality for patients who have complex palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is delivered. Work as part of the MDT, but also work autonomously, making decisions and recommendations involving highly complexfactors, seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required,in order tomake sound decisionsaround palliative and end of life care. Support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert, to work as one team. Support and implement any streamlined locality processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology,including clear outcome measures, to produce efficient and highly performing community services. Support the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the goodreputation of the Hospicee.g.local trusts, ICB, health and social care partners, businesses and voluntary organisations.
