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Clinical Nurse Specialist

Post date
11 March 2024
Closing date
21 March 2024
Location
Milton Hospice, CB24 6AB
Salary
£43,742-£50,056 per annum, depending on experience
Hours
Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contact email
hrinbox@each.org.uk

About Us

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and young people with life threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Over the past 30 years, EACH has developed an enviable reputation in the field of children’s palliative care.

We are the largest provider of palliative and end of life care and support for children and their families in East Anglia, delivering a comprehensive range of services in our hospices, family homes, hospital and wider community.

All three of our hospices; The Nook (Norfolk), The Treehouse (Ipswich) and Milton (Cambridge) were rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission

About the Role

Working Monday-Friday with on-call duties that may require weekends and nights.

Our service is provided in a 24/7, 365 day environment; shifts include weekend & Bank Holidays

Comprehensive range of benefits:

  • Pool car provided when working in the community
  • Free onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices
  • NHS pension – continuation if already contributing
  • Enhanced Annual leave Entitlement – 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays
  • Additional holiday purchase scheme
  • AVIVA pension package – up to 7% Employer Contribution including Life Assurance
  • Free eye tests & cycle to work scheme
  • Wellbeing support & Employee Assistance Programme

Are you:

  • Enthusiastic?
  • Hard working?
  • An autonomous worker?

Do you have:

  • High level of paediatric palliative care knowledge and experience?
  • A passion to provide high quality evidence based care?
  • Excellent communication skills?
  • Great time management skills?

Responsibilities include:

  • Working autonomously to provide holistic, evidence based, advanced level nursing care to BCYPs with life threatening or life limiting conditions.
  • Undertaking clinical assessments / consultations using face to face, telephone and virtual methods
  • Managing a caseload within the EACH catchment area.
  • Develop, review and evaluate comprehensive symptom management plans.
  • Work collaboratively as part of a 24 hour “on call” rota.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our Human Resource Department at hrinbox@each.org.uk who will put you in contact with the Hospice Team.

Closing Date: 21st March 2024

Interview Date: 25th/27th March 2024

At EACH, we are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community and from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds. EACH is also committed to the recruitment and retention of people with disabilities.

EACH is proud to be Investors in People accredited.

EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group.

EACH has a legal responsibility to ensure that its employees have the legal right to live and work in the UK. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to verification that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.

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