South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care

The closing date is 26 June 2025

Job summary

1 x 22.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care.

In this role, you will work across the Barnsley neighbourhoods, providing supportive palliative care to enhance the quality of life for patients/carers with any life limiting illness requiring palliative care, including complex physical, psychological & emotional needs.

The post holder will possess extensive knowledge of palliative medication to support the complex symptom management needs of the patient.

As Band 7 Macmillan CNS Palliative Care, you will be able to demonstrate:

ability to manage a caseload of people with specialist palliative care needs

excellent working knowledge of pain & symptom management & managing complex emotional & psychological needs

ability to provide highly specialised advice/guidance to members of the wider health & social care team

ability to design & deliver palliative care education

ability to work as an effective team member

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

As Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care, you will:

Assess, develop & implement specialist palliative care for patients & family, monitoring & evaluating the effectiveness of that care enabling patients to be maintained in the environment of their choice

Work closely with neighbourhood teams, primary care, & adult social care partners to ensure seamless support for individuals with complex needs

Be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes & behaviours relevant to employment & act in accordance with the NMC Code Professional standards of practice

Have a key role in training, education & staff development, actively participate in regular supervision & appraisals contributing to clinical leadership facilitating a culture of learning/reflective practice

Have high level communication & interpersonal skills

The team is committed to personal development, training & wellbeing

This post will involve the requirement to work at weekends & bank holidays

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

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

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Date posted

12 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9378-B2147

Job locations

Silkstone Health Centre

High Street

Silkstone

Barnsley

S75 4JH

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

To assess, develop and implement specialist palliative care for patients and family of those diagnosis with cancer and other life limiting illness, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of that care enabaling patients to be maintained in the environment of their choice.

Provide and lead specialist education to others to promote best practice in Palliative Care.

Communication with others

Patient and families and significant others

Members of Primary and neighbourhood Health Care Teams

Health and Social Care colleagues at all levels within the community, hospitals, hospice and independent settings

Palliative Care Team members

Supportive Care at Home Service Co-ordinator

Statutory and voluntary agencies

KEY RESULT AREAS:

The postholder will:

1.1Care/service/function provision:

To manage own specific geographical caseload, and day to day management of colleagues in absence of team members.

To give highly specialised advice, information, guidance and support to patients, families, Neighbourhood teams, Primary Health Care Team, Allied Health Care Professionals and Social Care Professionals.

To provide highly specialist clinical leadership for patients and their families to meet individual palliative care needs in the community, working independently with significant discretion.

To autonomously assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care for individual patients and their families to meet individual palliative care needs in the community, working independently with significant discretion.

Where it is appropriate to the service, upon successful completion and registration of the relevant qualification with the individuals professional body and SWYPFT to function as an independent non-medical prescriber and carry out relevant CPD to maintain competence.

To develop effective and empathetic supportive relationships with patients and their families, using advanced communication skills to relate highly complex, contentious, sensitive information taking into account barriers to understanding and challenging communication.

To monitor and identify complex bereavement issues and refer to appropriate services.

To act as a resource in developing and signposting information for patients and staff.

1.2 Working as part of a Team:

To act as Palliative Care representative at primary care Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings.

To be a core member of Palliative Care Multi-Disciplinary Team meeting and neighbourhood team.

To initiate, design and deliver palliative care education programmes for multi professional groups to promote high quality palliative care.

To act as a mentor to newly appointed clinical nurse specialists in palliative care setting

To contribute to business planning for service development and strategic planning in palliative care services

To develop network and regional contacts enabling the sharing and promotion of new developments in Palliative Care.

To participate in Team responsibilities for efficient management of Palliative Care Services, including the accepting, recording and safe keeping of donations from the general public for Macmillan and Home Care Support Fund.

To participate in the formulation and implementation of policies and procedures and evaluate standards of care within palliative care services.

To develop and lead integrated audit systems, which influence and guide palliative care practice in line with Department of Health Guidelines.

To participate in national research projects.

To maintain accurate manual and computerised records to ensure continuity of care and facilitate accurate data collection for service development

1.3 Managing Self:

To critically evaluate and disseminate existing research to promote evidence-based practice incorporating into SWYPFT Clinical Governance Guidelines.

To participate in professional development and clinical supervision programmes.

To be aware of and act in accordance with Trust clinical standards, guidelines, Health and Safety and work within the NMC Code of Conduct.

To have developed flexible self-management skills and have the ability to concentrate where the work pattern is unpredictable.

1.4 Management Supervision and Support

To be part of the core neighbourhood team and provide leadership for palliative/ end of life care team for the team. This includes provision of supervision and clinical advice and direction.

1.5 Financial Responsibility: eg, ** Use Trust resources efficiently and suggest efficiency savings to more senior staff).

1.6 Trust Values:

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:

Honest, open, transparent

Respectful

Person first and in the centre

Improve and be outstanding

Relevant today, ready for tomorrow

Families and carers matter

1.7. Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

1.8 Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Trust Data Protection Policy;

comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually;

receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity;

ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining;

comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached;

work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards.

adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own responsibilities under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.