Team Lead for Community & Hospital Palliative Care Nurse Specialist

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to be part of the Senior Nursing Team at Salisbury Hospice. We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated nurse with expert leadership and management skills, and to also have expert clinical palliative care knowledge and experience.

Using your specialist skills and knowledge you will be responsible for developing your teams and the service in order to ensure excellent evidence based care that meets local need within a designated budget., As a senior nurse you will be working alongside the senior management team to support the provision of specialist palliative care. You will have responsibility for the Community and Hospital Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Teams ensuring that expert high quality palliative care is delivered to patients and their families.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff., Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.