Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity, for an experienced nurse to join our Specialist Palliative Care Team (SPCT), currently consisting of Hospital and Community Palliative Care Nurse Specialists and Doctors, Specialist Pharmacy support, Clerical support and a Hospice at Home Team

The SPCT provides specialist support, care and advice to patients and their families living with life limiting illness, in East North Wales, across primary and secondary care.

As well as providing community Specialist Palliative Care support the post holder will have designated in reach to HMP Berwyn. They will work in partnership with the health and custodial teams, contributing to the delivery and service development of high quality accessible palliative care, providing specialist support, care and advice to those with life limiting disease.

The post holder will be expected to work 5 days per week and regular weekends, during the hours of 9 - 5pm.

If you feel you have the relevant experience and qualifications, alongside a strong desire to work within specialist palliative care, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Highly Specialist Nurse is an autonomous practitioner and has the freedom to act to influence patient care and service provision. They will exercise higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in specialist palliative care, in relation to the management of patients, their carers and professionals involved in their care, across all specialties and all care settings.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Whether you've worked in the NHS all of your life, or have had the misconception that you need a degreeto even consider it, the NHS North Wales can offer you arewarding career. We currently have vacancies across a whole host of professions.

We provide a full range of primary, community, mental health and acute hospital services across 3 district hospitals, 22 communityhospitals and a network of over 90 healthcentres, clinics, community health team bases and mental health units. BCUHB alsocoordinate the work of 113 GP practices andthe NHS services provided by dentists, opticians and pharmacists across the region.

Our aim is to enable everyone who uses our services to do so through the medium of Welsh or English, according to personal choice and to encourage other users and providers to use and promote the Welsh language in the health sector.