True Colours Trust palliative cardiac CNS

This is a new exciting opportunity to work as part of the palliative care team in a fixed term role for 2 years funded by The True Colours trust. This role will enhance palliative care for our joint cardiac palliative care patient caseload. A palliative cardiac clinical nurse specialist is required to provide that essential link between services and optimise the care provided to this patient cohort, who often struggle with symptom management and require end of life care., You will be joining an innovative and progressive multi-disciplinary palliative and bereavement care team. The post will involve working across organisational boundaries to serve the needs of children with life-limiting cardiac conditions across the West Midlands offering specialist care and continued development of expert palliative and cardiac care services within BWCH. The post holder will provide essential liaison between hospital and community services for babies, children and young people with life-limiting cardiac conditions acting as a specialist in signposting and facilitating appropriate, timely and safe discharge, discharge planning and care when a child has died.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Parkview Clinic is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Mental Health (CAMHS) facility in Moseley, for young people aged 11-18 years who require admission due to significant psychiatric difficulties.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.