A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Mid Notts Care Home Team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. This is a senior clinical role leading on support and education to care home providers across Mid Notts as well as providing clinical support and advice to residents with complex long term conditions.
You will join an established team of Band 6 and Band 7 nurses and have the opportunity to develop this relatively new service in line with the national Enhanced Framework for Care Homes 2020.
Based out of Newark Health Centre you will be predominantly covering the care homes in the Newark locality.
Applicants should have recent demonstrable experience of working in care homes and delivering training and education to this staff group. You will have an excellent understanding of the current agenda and be able to demonstrate clinical knowledge and the ability to lead within a service.
You will have excellent clinical knowledge with advanced problem solving and critical thinking. You will also demonstrate excellent communication skills.
In return the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of a dynamic and forward thinking team and benefit from being part of the wider specialist palliative care services in Mid Notts.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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The essential experience and qualifications needed are set out in the attached job description and person specification but include, not exhaustively:
1 st Level Registered Nurse
BSc Honours Degree or equivalent must have evidence of studying at degree level.
Independent nurse prescriber V300 or willing to work towards this qualification
Evidence of working at a senior level
Understanding of local and national priorities in relation to patient’s long-term conditions.
Experience of delivering teaching and assessing in clinical practice
Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
Up-to-date professional portfolio demonstrating evidence of reflective practice and ongoing professional development
Experience of leading/managing a team
Broad experience of having used expert knowledge, advanced nursing practice and autonomous decision making to manage patients in a variety of settings.
Competent in physical examination and history taking, diagnosis and treatment plannin

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