An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team in St Helens and Knowsley. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with advanced evidence-based Palliative Care Skills, 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 with 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 professionals providing palliative and end-of-life care in the community setting, including community inpatient. Working in collaboration with our partner organisations across the St Helens and Knowsley geographical area.
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 costs 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 the St Helens and Knowsley 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 so that patients are directed to the right service at the right time to meet their needs.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Apr 2025.
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