Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care
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Clinical Nurse Specialist Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team serving St Helens and Knowsley.
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with advanced, evidence-based palliative care skills, a V300 Independent prescribing qualification, and excellent advanced communication abilities.
Application Details
We welcome applications from both full-time and part-time candidates. The service operates seven days a week, delivering specialist palliative care support between 08:00 and 20:00. The role is primarily based on 12-hour shifts worked on a rota basis, and flexibility to work across the service hours is essential.
Role Overview
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated multidisciplinary team committed to providing high-quality, patient-centred palliative and end of life care within the community.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Understand current initiatives in Palliative and end of life care.
- Work as part of a specialist team consisting of clinical nurse specialists, providing holistic needs assessment for patients, advice and support for health professionals providing palliative and end of life care in the community setting including community inpatient.
- Collaborate with partner organisations across the St Helens and Knowsley geographical area.
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Working at Mersey Care
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.
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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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nicola Maddock
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: Nicola.maddock2@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07557319128
Additional Contacts:
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Louise Carden
- Email address: Louise.carden2@merseycare.nhs.uk
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Janette Macglashan
- Email address: janette.macglashan@merseycare.nhs.uk
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