Specialist Palliative Care CNS

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Integrated Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver expert palliative and end-of-life care across acute, community and integrated settings, supporting patients with complex needs and their families., To provide a highly specialist palliative care service for people with life-threatening illness, aiming to enhance quality of life for patients and carers with complex physical, psychological and emotional needs. To manage a caseload and assess and evaluate the care given. To act as a specialist resource, to other professionals including independent contractors, this includes the development and delivery of educational programmes both on a primary care and the private sector (care homes) related to the care and management of patients.

• Registered Nurse status with significant post-registration experience
• Specialist knowledge and experience in palliative and end-of-life care
• Excellent communication, leadership and multidisciplinary working skills
• Commitment to education, service development and quality improvement
If you are passionate about improving outcomes and experiences for people with life-limiting illness, we would love to hear from you.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people. Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.