Clinical Nurse Specialist -Community

Clinical Nurse Specialist -Community

CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST (Palliative Care) Location: Sydenham and Bromley Department: SPOC and Community Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday Sunday on a rota basis) Salary: £49178 – £55492 per annum per annum (inclusive of HCA, equivalent to AfC band 7) Please note, salary will be determined on service and experience within the role Do you aspire to work for a forward thinking, progressive organisation that is highly regarded around the globe? Would you like to be part of a committed and supportive multi-disciplinary team that delivers empowering and compassionate care and support? Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills within an organisation that values their staff and offers a comprehensive wellbeing programme? Then St Christophers, and this role may be for you.

St Christophers has services spanning the London boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and are connected to partner health and social care organisations in all the boroughs we support. St Christophers CARE, provides learning and development to the communities we support, and we have academic links with a number of universities, nationally and internationally. We are looking for compassionate nurses to join our community palliative care team. Our team works across a 7-day week, providing a service from 7.30am to 9pm.

We have roles that rotate through all of our services including our Single Point of Contact team, and our Bromley and Sydenham based teams. In these roles, our skilled team provides telephone and video triage, visiting people in their homes across Bromley, Croydon, Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark; and also see people in our outpatient department. You will be a registered nurse or paramedic with experience in end of life care, or who would like to develop your career in palliative care, we could have the opportunity for you. Your new role Your role will be so important in supporting people who are entering the last phase of their lives to talk about what is important to them and helping them to navigate how their wishes and goals can be achieved.

You will also support families and friends as well as providing expert care that will support a dignified death. You will offer the people we support your skills in symptom control, social, emotional and spiritual care, in addition to providing advice, support and education to the primary health care team and hospital staff where appropriate, as part of an interdisciplinary team. To succeed in this role You will need to a compassionate and resilient person. For our Clinical Nurse Specialist (equivalent of AfC band 7), you will have proven experience in palliative care/oncology with relevant qualifications and experience of working at Band 6/equivalent or above.