Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner whilst working as part of the Community Specialist Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) in partnership with other specialist palliative care providers within the South Tees Locality.

The post holder will work closely with and within the multi-organisational, multi-professional arena with statutory and non-statutory organisations including some cross boundary work within the North of England Strategic Clinical Network (NESCN), the Acute Sector, Social Care, Hospices, Care Homes and Teesside University.

Delivering palliative and End of Life education to care homes in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland.

The Specialist Nurse will provide high quality specialist palliative care (direct and indirect) and advice to patients, carers and professionals in line with Macmillan's four Levels of Intervention for the population of Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland.

Clinical leadership and support will be provided by the Lead Cancer Nurse, Specialist Palliative Care Consultant, Nurse Consultant and MDT lead.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading your Team to Successo Leading Into the Futureo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skillso Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.