Ambulatory Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Overview

We are seeking a dynamic Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care Team, based within Woodlands Hospice Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care Team. Candidates must have previous palliative care experience and training specific to the role.

• Part of a team of Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialists, working closely with the Specialist Palliative Care multi‑disciplinary team, and wider teams from the Hospital, Hospice and Community, caring for palliative patients.
• Manage own caseload of palliative care patients in the community, known to the Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care Service, and supporting these patients via Nurse‑Led Clinics.
• Act as clinical expert and professional resource to the generalist multi‑professional team caring for these patients in the community, and to palliative patients and their carers.
• Participate in the rota as the Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care Team triage coordinator within the IMPaCT Hub, triaging referrals for ambulatory services, and coordinating and responding to requests for advice and support from patients, their carers, and other healthcare professionals caring for these patients.
• Carry responsibility for a defined caseload, offering specialist advice, setting standards of care, assessment of care needs, and development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
• Conduct and coordinate independent holistic assessments, and nurse‑led follow up clinics for this caseload, using all available media, including face to face in the department, attend anywhere, telephone, and on occasion, in the patient’s own home.
• Contribute to achieving the objectives of the clinical Palliative Care & Acute Oncology corporate objectives and work within the clinical governance framework.
• Support the Hospice at Home service as a Band 6 Clinical Coordinator in cases of absence, including participating in their on‑call rota, covering the service remotely 09:00‑17:00 at weekends and on bank holidays.

• Previous experience and knowledge of palliative pain and symptom control and management, holistic assessment and patient‑centred planning and delivery of care.
• Advanced Communication Skills and Advance Care Planning training and experience are desirable.
• Band 6 level clinical qualification.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year.

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Jennifer Warren

Job title:

Team Leader Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care
Email address: jennif
Telephone number:

For full details of requirements for this role, please see attached job description and person specification. If you would like to discuss your previous experience and suitability for this role or arrange an informal visit, please contact our clinical admin team on  to arrange to speak to Jennifer Warren, Team Leader, Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care CNS Team.