Role Overview
As a Clinical Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care you will provide evidence-based specialist palliative care and advice to patients, families and staff to ensure the delivery of high quality, person centred palliative care over 7 days. You will also be responsible for the continued development of the service in collaboration with the Consultants and Assistant Director of Nursing for the service. You will link closely with other teams and departments across the trust and more widely across organisational boundaries.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide clinical and managerial leadership to the Specialist Palliative Care Team.
* Work collaboratively in the development of palliative and end of life care services.
* Provide specialist advice for complex referrals, advising the multi professional teams on clinical management plans as required.
* Maintain good relationships/communications with all disciplines within the Trust.
* Act as a Lead in the development and implementation of relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and protocols.
* Ensure compliance with organisation policies and procedures and national, legal and professional standards.
Benefits
In return you will join a supportive team and be provided with opportunities to develop within the role. The trust offers competitive benefits, including a generous annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities.
Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
About the Trust
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we are always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire- to join our team.
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