Job Title: Clinical Nurse Specialist
Location: Theale
Type: Permanent
Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £40,456 - £54,027 per annum pro rata, depending on experience and non-medical prescribing qualification
About Our Client
We provide a variety of services throughout Berkshire, with a particular focus on Reading, Wokingham, and Newbury. While our Clinical Nurse Specialist Team primarily operates from our Theale office near Reading, we welcome applications from Nurses across Berkshire and are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.
At our establishment in Reading and through our services in Newbury and Wokingham, we cater to individuals living with life-limiting conditions and extend support to their families. Our mission is to deliver expert care and assistance throughout Berkshire.
We support individuals through life's most challenging times, whether due to a terminal illness, the loss of a loved one, or a neurological condition – we're there when it matters. Our doctors, nurses, and carers provide the compassion and expert care necessary to help individuals live the best life possible.
About the Role
We are delighted to invite applications from seasoned nurses to join our client's well-established and friendly team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Reading. In this role, you will provide support to patients with an End-of-Life diagnosis to enable them to remain in their homes. This position primarily entails telephone triage responsibilities.
Key duties include assessing referrals for admission to the service, conducting comprehensive patient assessments, planning, implementing, and evaluating care delivery according to evolving healthcare needs, identifying actual or potential palliative care emergencies, formulating action plans to alleviate distress, ensuring collaborative development, documentation, and communication of such plans with other professionals, patients, and their families. Additionally:
- Utilising advanced assessment skills to identify reversible symptoms, devise a care plan, and implement it
- Offering holistic specialist care tailored to patients' needs, preferences, and cultural background. This encompasses clinical assessment, care planning, progress monitoring, requesting relevant investigations, and acting upon results
- Establishing and maintaining effective communication, often of a highly complex and sensitive nature, with patients, carers/relatives, and professionals across health and social services. This involves employing verbal and written communication and negotiation skills to overcome barriers to understanding with various stakeholders.
About You
We seek a Registered Nurse with experience as a community palliative care nurse, or alternatively, a nurse with palliative care experience and evidence of ongoing professional development in this field. Strong communication skills are essential, along with qualifications in advanced clinical assessment, mentorship, and non-medical prescribing, or a willingness to undergo training.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme or transfer of NHS Pension*
- 27 days holiday (pro rata), rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Enhanced sick pay
- Corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services
- Free parking
- Outstanding education and training opportunities
If you desire more than just a job, we want you.
Join our team and be there when it matters. Apply now through Sanctuary Personnel.
