Clinical Nurse Specialist - North West Identification & Support

Marie Curie Hospice, Glasgow; West Kirby; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Marie Curie seeks two compassionate Clinical Nurse Specialists to join a new service working across South Liverpool, within GP practices, community hubs and other locations. You will manage a caseload of patients with palliative and end-of-life care needs, delivering proactive, person-centred support and coordinating care across services.

You will provide specialist palliative-care advice, advocate for patient choices, and handle advance care planning in collaboration with the multidisciplinary

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of people with palliative-care needs across GP practices, community hubs and other locations.
• Provide specialist palliative-care advice and use clinical judgement to respond to complex needs.
• Coordinate care across primary and community services, advocating for patient-centred plans.
• Support advance care planning and sensitive conversations about future wishes and preferences.

Job description

We are looking for two compassionate and experienced Clinical Nurse Specialists to join a new Marie Curie service working across South Liverpool. Working within GP practices, community hubs and other locations across the PCN, you will be part of a new team focused on proactively supporting people with palliative and end-of-life care needs and helping them access coordinated, person-centred care earlier. This is an exciting opportunity to use your palliative-care expertise beyond a traditional clinical setting. You will manage a caseload of people with palliative-care needs while building strong relationships across primary and community care, helping create a more joined-up experience for people and those important to them. A significant part of your role within this new service will involve outreach, supporting appropriate referrals, coordinating care and building connections across services. As an autonomous practitioner, you will holistically assess people with complex needs and plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatments and interventions that support symptom management. You will provide specialist palliative-care advice and use your clinical expertise and professional judgement to respond to changing and sometimes complex needs. You will support advance care planning and sensitive conversations about future wishes and preferences, helping people and those important to them make informed decisions about their care. Working closely with GP practices and professionals across the multidisciplinary team, you will help coordinate care across organisational boundaries and advocate for care that reflects each persons needs, choices and preferences.

Marie Curie is the UKs leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, theyre likely to die from. The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life. Right now, almost one in three people in the UK with a terminal illness, do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives. We want a different society than the one we live in now. Our mission for the next five years is to close the gap in the number of people missing out on what they need at the end-of-life, through 3 ways:

• Growing and transforming our direct care and support
• Delivering more practical information and support
• Leading in shaping the end-of-life experience