Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist; CNS in Palliative Care

Responsibilities

• Provide supportive palliative care across Barnsley neighbourhoods to enhance quality of life for patients/carers with any life limiting illness requiring palliative care, including complex physical, psychological & emotional needs.
• Assess, develop and implement specialist palliative care for patients and families, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness to enable patients to be maintained in the environment of their choice.
• Work closely with neighbourhood teams, primary care and adult social care partners to ensure seamless support for individuals with complex needs.
• Be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours relevant to employment and act in accordance with the NMC Code Professional standards of practice.
• Have a key role in training, education and staff development, actively participate in regular supervision and appraisals contributing to clinical leadership and facilitating a culture of learning and reflective practice.
• Have high level communication and interpersonal skills.
• Work at weekends and bank holidays.
• Possess extensive knowledge of palliative medication to support the complex symptom management needs of patients.

• Ability to manage a caseload of people with specialist palliative care needs.
• Excellent working knowledge of pain and symptom management, and of managing complex emotional and psychological needs.
• Ability to provide highly specialised advice or guidance to members of the wider health and social care team.
• Ability to design and deliver palliative care education.
• Ability to work as an effective team member.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.