Specialist Palliative Care CNS

The successful candidate will be joining a well-established team of Band 6 and 7 Clinical Nurse Specialists, Lead Nurse and Consultants in Palliative Medicine who provide specialist palliative care expertise across the acute and community settings. The team values close working relationships and have a firm commitment to the education and training of others.

For this post, we are keen to attract a team orientated, experienced nurse, who ideally has worked in a specialist palliative care setting or have extensive experience in caring for palliative patients. They will possess excellent communication skills, have established emotional resilience and be skilled decision maker.

The successful candidate will take up a position as a supervised caseload holder working within a caseload share model. They will join an established specialist team who have expertise in undertaking holistic assessments, symptom management, psychological support and providing advice and signposting to other services, for our patients and carers.

Our new team member will be joining a service that has a strong team culture, where support for each other has become a natural aspect of day to day working. In addition, the successful individual will enjoy close support and mentoring from all team colleagues.

Main duties of the job

To work within the integrated Wye Valley NHS Trust Specialist Palliative Care Team, being responsible to the Lead Palliative Care Macmillan CNS.

The post holder will be supported to manage a caseload, providing high level clinical assessment and proactive clinical care across all care settings for people facing life limiting illness.

To contribute to the achievement of corporate objectives.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."