Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Palliative Care

In this role, you will work across the Barnsley neighbourhoods, providing supportive palliative care to enhance the quality of life for patients/carers with any life limiting illness requiring palliative care, including complex physical, psychological & emotional needs., As Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care, you will:

Assess, develop & implement specialist palliative care for patients & family, monitoring & evaluating the effectiveness of that care enabling patients to be maintained in the environment of their choice

Work closely with neighbourhood teams, primary care, & adult social care partners to ensure seamless support for individuals with complex needs

Be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes & behaviours relevant to employment & act in accordance with the NMC Code Professional standards of practice

Have a key role in training, education & staff development, actively participate in regular supervision & appraisals contributing to clinical leadership facilitating a culture of learning/reflective practice

Have high level communication & interpersonal skills

The team is committed to personal development, training & wellbeing

This post will involve the requirement to work at weekends & bank holidays

The post holder will possess extensive knowledge of palliative medication to support the complex symptom management needs of the patient.

As Band 7 Macmillan CNS Palliative Care, you will be able to demonstrate:

ability to manage a caseload of people with specialist palliative care needs

excellent working knowledge of pain & symptom management & managing complex emotional & psychological needs

ability to provide highly specialised advice/guidance to members of the wider health & social care team

ability to design & deliver palliative care education

ability to work as an effective team member

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.