Job Description

Our Team The Community Clinical Nurse Specialist team (CNS) offer advice and support to patients living in their own place of residence, including care homes. Working with other health care professionals including GP's, the team provide oversight and guidance, to ensure best practice for patients and families, keeping the patient at the centre of care and allowing them autonomy in decision making. This highly skilled team support patients and families with managing symptoms, advance care planning and navigating their illness throughout its trajectory. Main Purpose & Scope The Community Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is responsible for effectively managing and coordinating a caseload of patients and their families living with specialist palliative and end of life care needs.



The prime purpose is to ensure a flexible, responsive and needs led approach to patient centred care. A key element will be to actively contribute to the Patient Services clinical governance framework to influence care through participation in education, training, research and audit initiatives. There is a requirement to provide CNS support in the community setting and throughout the out of hours period. Key Accountabilities and areas of responsibility Scope and Limits of Authority The CNS is required to plan and organise their own day to day work in collaboration with their team members, and make clinical decisions to support patients with complex and often rapidly changing specialist palliative/end of life care needs.



The CNS is required to identify issues that require onward referral to the multi-professional team and facilitate, where appropriate patient discharge. The CNS does not have any direct budgetary responsibility. Equality & Diversity Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business and the communities we serve.



We are committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are provided with equality of opportunity in employment and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we support. As part of our SAFER recruitment processes, offers of employment will be subject to thorough checks, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references, online and social media checks and verification of qualifications. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to adhere to our safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.



You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Prospect Hospice does not hold a Home Office Sponsor Licence under the UK Immigration System, therefore candidates are required to have eligibility to live and work in the UK prior to applying.