Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and compassionate Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Symptom and Palliative Care for Children and Young People. This part-time role is based at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, where you will be a key part of a specialist team providing high-quality palliative care services to children and young people with cancer.
The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive and high-quality symptom and palliative care service to children and young people (CYP) receiving treatment at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and their families. You will work with other members of the CYPOONS team and the Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care to provide advanced nursing care to this patient group.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide professional and clinical leadership for CYPs with symptom and palliative care needs across care settings.
- Act as an expert clinical resource for symptom and palliative care for CYPs, their families and healthcare professionals across care settings.
- Provide support to CYPs and their families where required through community visits to hospital, home or hospice along with relevant allied healthcare professionals.
- Provide expert clinical care to this group of CYPs and their families.
- Demonstrate a high degree of professional autonomy, using clinical judgment, to provide advice.
- Participate in the out of hours PATCH on-call rota when deemed competent to do so.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust offers a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways.
Requirements:
- First level registration as a children's nurse.
- Children's oncology qualification/experience.
- First level degree.
- Teaching qualification.
- Willingness to undertake higher degree.
- Nursing experience.
- Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines.
- Evidence of delivering person-centred care and demonstrating organisational values in clinical practice.
- Evidence of leading practice improvements or influencing multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes.
- Able to communicate effectively with children, young people, families and multidisciplinary teams in sensitive and complex situations.