Clinical Nurse Specialist/Paramedic Practitioner Palliative Care (Band 6)

Job title: Clinical Nurse Specialist/Paramedic – Community Rapid Response Team Location: Compton, Wolverhampton and working across the community Hours: 37.5 hours per week (11.5 hours per day) covering a 7 day per week service Salary: £37,870 per annum We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Specialist or Paramedic Practitioner to join our community services team at Compton Care. What we do Compton Care is committed to providing accessible, innovative, and influential care to patients with complex and incurable conditions. We also support the carers and families of patient within our local communities and work closely with health and social care colleagues from other organisations. What you will do As part of the community services team, you will provide clinical, hands-on care to our patients. It is a service which aims to complement and enhance the care available in the community to those with both a rapidly deteriorating life advancing, chronic, incurable illness or those with complex symptom management that is affecting their living well. You will be there to offer specialist knowledge, expertise and support to the patient and carer, enabling the patient to stay in their home if that is their wish by helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. What we want you to bring You will need to be a registered general nurse or paramedic with post registration experience. You will hold a health care degree and/or have taken a health assessment course or be looking to achieve one. Communications skills are important in this role, so you will also have advanced communication training or be willing to undertake this training. You will have a real passion and commitment to providing high quality palliative and end of life care and be someone who is always looking reflect on how we can improve patient care and share learning with colleagues. You will be working out in the community so you will need to be able to travel using your own vehicle and hold a UK driving licence and relevant insurance to allow you to do this. What you’ll get in return We offer 27 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays), increasing with long service. The ability to transfer an NHS pension for those who are working in patient facing roles. If you don’t have an NHS pension, we offer a salary exchange pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution from day one of employment increasing to 7% after 3 years and a death in service benefit at 2x salary. In addition, you will receive a staff discount across our Compton coffee shops Access to our employee assistance program including unlimited telephone counselling support, 24/7 GP access and a staff discount platform. We are also a Blue Light Card accredited organisation. Compton offers in house training through our learning and Development and HR teams that will equip you with all the skills you need for this role and beyond. If you feel that you have the clinical skills we are looking for then we look forward to hearing from you. Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date when applicant volume is high. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.