Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Supportive & Palliative Care

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Supportive & Palliative Care. This role involves working within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care to individuals with life-limiting conditions. You will play a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for patients and their families, ensuring they receive the necessary support and education. Join an innovative and expanding team within one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, where you can make a significant impact on the lives of those in need. If you are passionate about palliative care and wish to contribute to a compassionate healthcare environment, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Training and Development Opportunities

Supportive Work Environment

Access to Research Programs

Flexible Working Hours

Qualifications

• Must have up-to-date registration with the NMC.
• Extensive experience in cancer/palliative care required.
• Advanced communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide supportive palliative care to enhance patient quality of life.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Educate and train other healthcare professionals.

Skills

Palliative Care

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Leadership

Teaching and Training

Non-medical Prescribing

Education

Health Related Degree

Post-graduate Training

Master’s Degree

Tools

Assessment Tools for Palliative Care

Job description

Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Supportive & Palliative Care

Band 7

Main area: Palliative Care

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes weekend working)

Job ref: 349-LCO-6884831C

Site: Longsight HC

Town: Manchester

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum (pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

The Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist will work as a member of the wider locality based multidisciplinary Manchester Macmillan Supportive and Palliative Care Service. The post holder will support Neighborhood teams to deliver locally driven high quality care, responsive to patient and carers needs. This includes education of other health care professionals, training, support and advice for the multidisciplinary team.

The focus of the multidisciplinary approach will be to support patients and carers to live well, prevent inappropriate hospital admission and meet their preferred priorities for care.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the City Wide Manchester Macmillan Palliative Support Service for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care. The post holder will work as part of the Macmillan Specialist multi-disciplinary team comprising of Medics, Dietitian, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Nurses, Speech and Language Therapist, Assistant Practitioners, Admin support and Volunteer Coordinators. The team aims to provide effective support palliative care and/or rehabilitation to patients with a life limiting condition requiring palliative intervention.

The post holder will provide supportive palliative care to enhance the quality of life for patients/carers with any life limiting illness requiring palliative care, including complex physical, psychological and emotional needs. The post holder will be expected to have extensive palliative medication knowledge to support the complex symptom management needs of the patient.

Recent investment by Macmillan has enabled the Manchester Macmillan Supportive and Palliative Care Service to develop substantially for the city of Manchester; this is an exciting time to join our innovative and expanding team.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Supportive & Palliative Care

• Up to date registration with the NMC
• Health Related Degree or equivalent portfolio experience
• Experience evidenced by completion of highly specialist short courses, post-graduate training, etc or relevant Master’s degree
• Non-medical Prescribing qualification or ability to work towards V300
• Substantial experience in specialist field of cancer/palliative care
• Experience of working collaboratively
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of teaching training others at a specialist level
• Experience of supporting and supervising other staff in the clinical environment
• Highly specialist knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to cancer/palliative care.
• Advanced communication skills or willing to undertake 3 day National Advanced Communication Skills training
• In depth knowledge of National Policies and Procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
• Car Driver with access to a car
• Ability to assume leadership responsibilities
• Ability to work flexibly over 7 days
• Member of relevant special interest group
• Completion of basic leadership course
• Post graduate courses in cancer/palliative care
• Experience of managing resources
• Evidence of contribution to the developments of services
• Experience of working in an inner city multi-ethnic environment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.