Clinical Nurse Specialist or Clinical Specialist AHP

Job overview

The Community Chronic Pain Service is a multidisciplinary team of expert chronic pain clinicians. We support people with persistent pain to develop self-management strategies, enabling them to live well.  This post is suitable for a Clinical Nurse Specialist or an Allied Health Professional with an interest in pain management.

Our aim is to help individuals develop the skills needed to improve their quality of life and reduce their dependency on healthcare services and medication.

This service is delivered in a variety of settings, face to face clinics, group settings and virtually.

As well as community clinics you will deliver care within the secure (prison) environment. We deliver our award-winning Pain Management Service in all of the Kent prisons therefore travel will be an  essential part of this post.

Main duties of the job

• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating holistic care in relation to care planning/pathways
• Developing integrated care programmes in partnership with service users, commissioners and key stakeholders.
• Ensuring a supervision framework is in place for staff under their care and support in the development of relevant competencies across staff groups
• Actively working as a member of the integrated team to ensure high quality care is provided to service users.
• Maintaining own specialist area of competence, and leading on the competency frameworks for others
• Having the ability to synthesise information in order to present proposals effectively to decision makers (including Directors and Senior Executives) in ways which facilitate their understanding and influence pathways
• Making recommendations to decision makers in order to drive forward innovative solutions to achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and financial efficiencies linked to packages of prescribed care or identified projects

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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