Clinical Nurse Specialist - North West Identification & Support

The Methodist Church in Britain; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave entitlement (27 days + 8 public)

CPD and industry training

Pension (Group Personal Pension)

Life assurance

Blue Light Card

Discounts

Eye care support

Season ticket loans

Job summary

Marie Curie is recruiting two Clinical Nurse Specialists for a new palliative and end-of-life service across the South Liverpool primary care network. The work centres on finding people with palliative needs earlier, through outreach, referrals and advance care planning, and on specialist symptom management.

Each nurse will hold their own caseload while working across GP practices and community hubs, rather than from a single clinical base.

Qualifications

• Nursing degree with Level 6+ qualification
• Current NMC registration as a registered adult nurse
• Experience in specialist palliative care

Responsibilities

• Outreach and coordinate care across GP practices and community hubs
• Holistically assess people with complex needs
• Plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatments for symptom management
• Provide specialist palliative care advice and respond to changing needs using clinical judgement
• Support advance care planning and conversations about future wishes
• Coordinate care across organisations and advocate for person-centred care
• Manage own caseload and know when to collaborate or escalate
• Build relationships with patients, families and professionals across organisations
• Share expertise with colleagues and support multidisciplinary decision-making
• Contribute to learning, quality improvement and service improvement
• Provide expert guidance to other teams and act as a clinical role model

Skills

Clinical assessment

Symptom management

Advance care planning

Sensitive conversations

Autonomous working

Caseload management

Education

Nursing degree with Level 6+

Adult nursing registration

Job description

Marie Curie is recruiting two Clinical Nurse Specialists for a new palliative and end-of-life service across the South Liverpool primary care network. The work centres on finding people with palliative needs earlier, through outreach, referrals and advance care planning, and on specialist symptom management. Each nurse holds their own caseload while working across GP practices and community hubs rather than from a single clinical base. Applicants need current NMC registration and a driving licence with access to a vehicle.

What the job involves

• Outreach, supporting appropriate referrals, coordinating care and building connections across services
• Holistically assess people with complex needs
• Plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatments and interventions for symptom management
• Provide specialist palliative care advice and respond to changing needs using clinical judgement
• Support advance care planning and sensitive conversations about future wishes and preferences
• Coordinate care across organisational boundaries with GP practices and the multidisciplinary team, advocating for person-centred care
• Manage own caseload of people with palliative care needs
• Build relationships between Marie Curie, primary care and other local services
• Share expertise with colleagues and support multidisciplinary decision-making
• Contribute to learning, quality improvement and service improvement
• Provide expert guidance to other teams and act as a clinical role model

What’s required

Qualifications

• Nursing degree and relevant post-registration qualification at Level 6 minimum
• Adult nursing registration as the base qualification

Registration & licences

• Current NMC registration as a registered adult nurse

Experience

• Experience working within specialist palliative care

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge and clinical skills to assess and respond to complex palliative and end-of-life care needs
• Strong clinical assessment, decision-making and symptom-management skills
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• Works autonomously, managing and prioritising own caseload and knowing when to collaborate or escalat
• Builds trusted relationships with patients, families and professionals across organisations, and works in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
• Makes appropriate referrals and coordinates care across services

Checks & eligibility

• Current valid driving licence with access to a vehicle and business insurance

Other

• Committed to compassionate, equitable and person-centred palliative care
• Comfortable working across community and primary care settings

What’s offered

• 27 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
• Continuous professional development and industry-leading training programmes
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Life assurance
• Blue Light Card eligibility
• Benefit Hub discounts
• Support with eye care costs
• Season ticket and other employee loan schemes