Clinical Nurse Specialist

Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place., Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place.

Support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence-based and reflects current best practice.

Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting.

Act as a specialist resource across the whole system using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care.

Joint management of the team.

Participate in a 7-day rota.

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.