Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Supportive & Palliative Care

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Manchester is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care. The role involves working within a multidisciplinary team to provide supportive palliative care, enhancing the quality of life for patients with life-limiting conditions. Candidates should have extensive experience in palliative care, collaboration, and teaching. This is a full-time position with opportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in specialist field of cancer/palliative care.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of managing resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide supportive palliative care to enhance quality of life.
• Deliver education for other health care professionals.
• Support Neighborhood teams in high quality care.

Skills

Collaboration

Teaching others

Palliative care knowledge

Education

Registered Nurse

Health Related Degree

Teaching qualification

Postgraduate courses in cancer/palliative care

Job description

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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

Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care Band7

Flexible working arrangements considered.

An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the City Wide Manchester Macmillan Palliative Support Service for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care. The team are friendly and supportive-development opportunities are available. 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, and admin support. 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.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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 30,000 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.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll 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].

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Health Related Degree or equivalent portfolio experience
• Experience evidenced by completion of highly specialist short courses, postgraduate training, etc or relevant Master\'s degree
• Ability to work towards V300 within 12 of post
• Teaching qualification
• Member of relevant special interest group
• Completion of basic leadership course
• Post graduate courses in cancer/palliative care

Experience

• Substantial experience in specialist field of cancer/palliative care
• Experience of working collaboratively
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary 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
• Experience of managing resources
• Evidence of contribution to the developments of services
• Experience of working in an inner city multi-ethnic environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 per annum (pro rata)