Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

**Hutt Hospital Palliative Care Service (HPCS) 0.6 - 0.8 FTE Senior Nurse role (28 to 32 hours per week)**

**Te Omanga is more than just a hospice.**

Te Omanga Hospice provides palliative care through an interdisciplinary team of specialist doctors, nurses, therapists and specially trained volunteers to those living with a terminal or life limiting illness in the Hutt Valley.

We have a well-established Hospital Palliative Care team situated at Hutt Hospital. This team provides specialist palliative care consultation, advice and support to hospital clinicians to improve knowledge, coordination and quality of care for those with a life limited illness. The focus of this role is to promote a palliative care approach, provide specialist care input and support those delivering general palliative care, within Hutt Hospital.

We are looking for an experienced Registered Nurse to join the team. This is a senior nurse position that requires previous palliative care experience, specialist palliative care knowledge and post graduate qualifications. This may suit a senior registered nurse who wishes to develop towards a clinical nurse specialist role.

**Working at Te Omanga**

Our workforce is important to us; therefore, we offer:

- **Competitive remuneration, **supported by our SECA.
- **Professional Development opportunities, **including a rostered non-clinical days
- **A supportive environment** enhanced by our wellness programme, flexible working hours and clinical supervision.

To help you succeed we will provide support and resources from our wider hospice team of support services, education, and clinical multidisciplinary team. We strongly believe in partnership and learning. Working here you can be an active contributor to quality improvement and service development.

We have a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Our purpose is to provide or facilitate palliative care to our community in the manner that they require when they require it. It is this commitment to the uniqueness of everyone that underpins our holistic philosophy.

Joining our Te Omanga Hospice whānau will make you part of a respected community organisation that makes a real difference for people at one of the most difficult times in their lives.

Te Omanga is a values-based organisation where we embrace:
**Respect**
- Working within a strong multi-disciplined team
- Person centred, family friendly management processes and practices
- Clear managerial reporting lines with a horizontal approach to leadership within the team
- Two way, open and transparent communication
- Strong professional boundaries with an open mind to difference.
- Nursing representation on all committees and quality initiatives

**Partnership**
- Person centred, plus family/whanau, holistic care approach
- The principles of Te Tiriti O Waitangi and Te Whare Tapa Wha are inherent to the palliative care approach
- Equity focussed Quality, People and Culture strategy & Framework
- Integrated Nursing services with Hospital, Aged Care and Primary Care
- Nursing team supported by a skilled medical team and allied health services with access to Counsellors, Social Workers, OT, PT, Māori Liaison, Art Therapy, Music Therapy and Spiritual Care.
- Safe nurse caseloads and patient ratios to allow time to deliver holistic care

**Compassion**
- Te Omanga supports it clinical staff to deliver a holistic model of care for all.
- Work closely with people from diverse cultural backgrounds ensuring equity for all.
- Workforce centred people policies and processes - Clinical Supervision and EAP available
- Initiatives to support staff physical and emotional wellbeing
- Nurse patient ratios to support time to deliver holistic care
- Non task orientated nursing care that allows empathy and caring to take the lead

**Learning**
- Monthly non-clinical day for education, profession development, quality improvement
- Free access to our internal education opportunities
- An education allowance to attend external training.
- Opportunities to attend conference nationally and internationally
- Professional clinical supervision
- Actively supported PDRP

Our values make Te Omanga a special place to work. A dedicated, dynamic service that still knows how to have fun and get the work done.

If you want to be part of our team, and a part of the future of Specialist Palliative Care for the Hutt Valley Community we want to hear from.

Any questions - just ask.