Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist - Better Care Funded post for Care Homes

(Part time - 30 hours hrs per week)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 7  Better Care Funded - Training for Care home Specialist nurse within the palliative care team. The post will is designed to provide specialist palliative care knowledge and support to patient's carers and health and social care professionals in the community and care homes

The multi disciplinary team is forever developing and is  committed to providing gold standard care to patients within our community.

This is a rare  opportunity to join our dynamic team working collaboratively with other professionals to deliver a demanding  but rewarding service.

Must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner whilst working as part of the Community Specialist Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) in partnership with other specialist palliative care providers within the South Tees Locality.

The post holder will work closely with and within the multi-organisational, multi-professional arena with statutory and non-statutory organisations including some cross boundary work within the North of England Strategic Clinical Network (NESCN), the Acute Sector, Social Care, Hospices, Care Homes and Teesside University.

Delivering palliative and End of Life education to care homes in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland.

The Specialist Nurse will provide high quality specialist palliative care (direct and indirect) and advice to patients, carers and professionals in line with Macmillan’s four Levels of Intervention for the population of Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland.

Clinical leadership and support will be provided by the Lead Cancer Nurse, Specialist Palliative Care Consultant, Nurse Consultant and MDT lead.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.