Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care

A part time opportunity has arisen to join our specialist palliative care team. The 20.5 hour post to work over 3 days is a Band 7 CNS role based in Y Bwthyn Princess Wales Hospital Specialist Palliative Care unit. The position provides an outreach service to patients with palliative care needs across the community and hospital setting. The service provides support for the population of Bridgend and the surrounding valleys in the local authority area. The specialist palliative care service is delivered within teams on multiple sites across Cwm Taf Morgannwg. An appreciation that on occasions, dependent on patient need there may be a need for post holder flexibility in providing support to cover the CNS role across other sites., The position involves directly supporting and advising patients with palliative care needs in a hospital and community setting. Multidisciplinary team working to lead education and to provide support and guidance to colleagues about the specialty is key. The core hours are Monday to Friday 9-5pm but with participation in a 7 day roster with the same working hours which will require giving advice to other health care professionals, patients and families, potentially visiting patients in the hospital and community setting at weekends. The successful applicant would be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs in collaboration with the wider MDT, participating in an education, audit and providing leadership regarding the specialty. You will need to be enthusiastic about the specialty, demonstrate experience of caring for patients with palliative care needs and be able to meet the travel requirements. The Specialist Palliative Care Team in CTMUHB is a multi-professional team providing a clinical, advisory and educational service across CTMUHB. The team are situated in locality bases which each have a SPC inpatient unit and house services that provide outreach services to both community and hospital patients.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.