Palliative Care CNS Lead

at  Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust considers the Clinical Nurse Specialist role as a keystone to the optimal care of our patients and to the success of our Trust. The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate care is the most important objective for the organisation. This advanced clinical leadership role therefore has the authority required to deliver the responsibilities and accountabilities outlined in this job description.
The palliative care service operates over 7 days.
The Palliative Care business unit operates across all Trust sites. This includes the hospice in Andover and Winchester, links to the hospice in Basingstoke and various activities in the community. This is a cross site role.

The delivery of a seven-day, twenty-four-hour service by the team or area for which you have responsibility this includes:

• Expert professional adviser
• Clinical Lead for the specialist service
• Leads the development in own speciality services
• Delivers education to the multi-disciplinary team
• Assessment and treatment of own caseload of patients
• Responsible for clinical governance within the team.
• Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved
• Leads on clinical audit
• Adviser for the speciality both internally and externally
• Lead on the highly complex patient assessment, where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment
• To develop the above skill set with the staff who report to you or for whom you have a responsibility to train

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached

Please refer the Job description for details