Senior Nurse Care Home Service Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job description

Job responsibilities

Title: Senior Nurse Hywel Dda

Salary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale, alignedwithAFC BAND6 £33,706- £40,588pro rata per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Based: Carmarthenshire

Closing date: 10thApril 2023

Interview date: 13thApril 2023

In this key role, supported by the Clinical Nurse Manager, youll deliver day to day support to care homes across Carmarthenshire. As part of your role you will deliver direct support to patients at end of life. This will include supporting care home staff with training and development, advanced care planning awareness sessions and supporting people through grief and bereavement.

A confident communicator and calm decision maker, youll need experience and knowledge in palliative care and community services, together with well-developed assessment and planning skills. The ability to prioritise your work, whilst juggling a variety of changing demands, is vital. You will deputise for the Clinical Nurse Manager in their absence

The role is largely based inour Dafen office, although you must be willing to travel to various venues acrossWalesto meet with nursing teams and attend relevant End of Life Care meetings. The ability to drive with access to a vehicle insured for business use is therefore essential.

So, if youre ready to take the next step in your career, then this is the role for you.

What we are looking for:

• Strong time management skills and the ability to proactively plan and schedule your own workload, to meet patient care requirements.
• The flexibility to work across a varied shift pattern.
• Experience in observation and assessment of clinical practice, to determine standards of care.
• An understanding of specific needs of patients approaching end of life and in the terminal phase.

Whats in it for you:

• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Continuous development
• Industry leading training programmes
• Employee AssistanceProgramme
• Flexible Working

For more information or an informal chat please contact our Clinical Nurse Manager Llinos Trotman on Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory enhanced criminal record check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Level 1 registration.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continual professional development
• Qualification in palliative/ cancer care willing
• Relevant qualification for assessing clinical practice, or willing to work towards to work towards

Desirable

• Relevant Degree or a willingness to work towards a degree

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience in the provision of palliative care in the community
• Recent experience in the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient and family care needs
• IT experience Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail and internet
• Experience in observation and assessment of clinical practice needed to determine standards of care
• Experience in having difficult conversations with staff regarding
• standards of clinical care
• Staff recruitment and development

Desirable

• Gaining user feedback; patient, carer, District Nurse.
• Caseload management experience
• Relevant Degree or a willingness to work towards a degree

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.