Coordination Centre Clinical Nurse Specialist

• Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of nursing and palliative care. • Act as a role model demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership for colleagues. • Advise and support on patients with complex needs and their families at home, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, in accordance with the Rennie Grove Peace mission and values. • Effectively allocate and support team members to implement the care plan, monitoring and evaluating the care provided, and deliver practical nursing care when appropriate. • Ensure all written and verbal communication is constructive, effective, accurate and appropriate. • Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested. • Demonstrate a research-based approach to nursing and participate in on-going Rennie Grove Peace research. • Identify risk and lead risk management involved in patient care and lone working, implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents. • Act as a mentor for new staff and oversee successful completion and timely sign off of their baseline competencies. • Carry out individual performance review process - annual and mid-year reviews - for any direct reports and complete personal development plans. • Participate fully in the orientation/mentorship of new staff. • Supervise and teach Rennie Grove Peace trained staff. • Provide specialist palliative care training to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and nursing hope colleagues within the community. Please see the Job Description for full information. Job description Job responsibilities • Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of nursing and palliative care. • Act as a role model demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership for colleagues. • Advise and support on patients with complex needs and their families at home, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, in accordance with the Rennie Grove Peace mission and values. • Effectively allocate and support team members to implement the care plan, monitoring and evaluating the care provided, and deliver practical nursing care when appropriate. • Ensure all written and verbal communication is constructive, effective, accurate and appropriate. • Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested. • Demonstrate a research-based approach to nursing and participate in on-going Rennie Grove Peace research. • Identify risk and lead risk management involved in patient care and lone working, implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents. • Act as a mentor for new staff and oversee successful completion and timely sign off of their baseline competencies. • Carry out individual performance review process - annual and mid-year reviews - for any direct reports and complete personal development plans. • Participate fully in the orientation/mentorship of new staff. • Supervise and teach Rennie Grove Peace trained staff. • Provide specialist palliative care training to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and nursing hope colleagues within the community. Please see the Job Description for full information.