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Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join our Supportive & Palliative care team at Wythenshawe hospital. You will be working with a team of highly specialised Clinical Nurse Specialists, supporting patients with Palliative and EOLC needs.

The post holder will be expected to provide detailed specialist knowledge and care to the patient and their carers. They will act as a source of specialist advice in the nursing management of patients in their specialist area who require a high level of judgement, discretion and decision making whilst as an in-patient/outpatient or in a setting external to the
Trust. The post-holder will provide education and training to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.

You will also be working with the Macmillan organisation. You will be
supported by an expert team in an environment where training and developing opportunities are actively encouraged in order to meet the clinical needs of the role/patient cohort and the Trust’s philosophies. The team operate a seven day service across the acute setting.

We offer a comprehensive induction programme and you will have appraisals on a regular basis with a view to developing knowledge and skills.
With the development of your clinical leadership skills, you will need to demonstrable the ability to influence the practice of others through
teaching and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

Create an environment in which individuals take ownership for their professional development.

Establish & maintain a learning environment within the service of responsibility.

Provide & develop specialist teaching which will include practical & theoretical sessions to nursing, medical staff, other health care professionals & primary care in their own specialty & in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

Participate & undertake research & audit to enhance & demonstrate evidence based practice.

Provide specialist care, knowledge & expertise, whilst being continually aware of the importance of empowering colleagues to ensure dissemination of knowledge & best practice.

Advise & support patients to manage their symptoms, giving highly specialist advice as appropriate.

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in their specialty.

Assess, plan, prioritise, implement & evaluate nursing interventions to meet patient's needs.

Undertake comprehensive health care needs of patients, changing treatment plan as necessary.

Promote effective leadership at all times.

Manage effective multidisciplinary teamwork.

Deal personally with patients, relatives or visitors who make a compliant in line with Trust policy.

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.