Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust | Prescot | findajob.dwp.gov.uk |
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with advanced evidence based Palliative Care Skills, evidence of Palliative Care/oncology courses at level 6 and above and experience, along with a V300 prescribing qualification and proven advanced communication skills.

To provide professional leadership, advice and support in palliative care for health professionals, patients and carers to enhance the quality of life for people with life limiting illness requiring palliative care , including complex physical, psychological and emotional needs .

Our vision, is to provide a comprehensive and patient-focused approach for people with complex symptoms associated to advanced progressive disease who are in the last 12 months of life, creating a forward thinking and innovative approach to supportive care.
The role requires an understanding of current Initiatives in Palliative and end of life care. The successful candidate will work as part of a specialist team consisting of clinical nurse specialists, providing holistic needs assessment for patients, advice and support for health professional providing palliative and end of life care in the community setting including community inpatient.
Working in collaboration with our partner organisations across the Liverpool and South Sefton geographical area and the Integrated Merseyside Palliative Care Team.

We have an excellent staff supervision system enabling our staff to be committed to developing both their service and themselves through continued professional development and appraisal systems.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team across Liverpool and South Sefton geographical area, supporting patients to be symptom managed in their usual place of residence.The focus of the role is to provide clinical expertise and leadership within the community setting.

To work in collaboration with our partner organisations and IMPACT so patients are directed to the right service at the right time to meet their needs.

This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024
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