Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-LCO-6481634*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Macmillan Wellbeing Centre
- Town
- Trafford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Trafford LCO for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Trafford Community Macmillan Team.
The Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist will work as a member of the wider locality based multidisciplinary Macmillan Palliative Care Supportive Service. The post holder will support Neighbourhood teams to deliver locally driven high quality care, responsive to patient and carers’ needs. This includes education of other health care professionals, training, support and advice for the multidisciplinary team. The focus of the multidisciplinary approach will be to support patients and carers to live well, prevent inappropriate hospital admission and meet their preferred priorities for care.
Main duties of the job
- To provide palliative care to enhance quality of life for patients and carers with complex physical, psychological and emotional needs.
- Be responsible for the specialist nursing assessment and treatment of clients referred to the Trafford Macmillan Palliative Support Service.
- The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be expected to triage all referrals for the multidisciplinary team and provide palliative care advice to patient, carers, relatives and other health care professionals when supporting the triage role
- The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be expected to visit patients who require urgent palliative care support utilising advanced communication skills and partnership working with other teams.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing in-depth multi-factorial assessments and interventions for clients with complex and non-complex cancer needs, and those with a non-cancer diagnosis.
- Manage a caseload of patients requiring palliative care input and be responsible as the main caseload holder of ensuring all grades of staff deliver high quality care. Supervise Associate Macmillan Nurse ensuring competency to support patients within the caseload. Provide supervision and clinical support to band 4 Assistant Practitioners
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Up to date registration with the NMC
- Health Related Degree or equivalent portfolio experience
- Experience evidenced by completion of highly specialist short courses, post-graduate training, etc or relevant Master’s degree
- Non-medical Prescribing qualification or ability to work towards V300
- Substantial experience in specialist field of cancer/palliative care
- Experience of working collaboratively
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Experience of teaching training others at a specialist level
- Experience of supporting and supervising other staff in the clinical environment
- Highly specialist knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to cancer/palliative care
- Advanced communication skills or willing to undertake 3 day National Advanced Communication Skills training
- In depth knowledge of National Policies and Procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
- Car Driver with access to a car
- Ability to assume leadership responsibilities
- Ability to work flexibly over 7 days
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- Member of relevant special interest group
- Completion of basic leadership course
- Post graduate courses in cancer/palliative care
- Experience of managing resources
- Evidence of contribution to the developments of services
- Experience of working in an inner city multi-ethnic environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Aspinall
- Job title
- Community Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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