Specialist Palliative Care Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and conscientious individual to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team as a Team Leader. We are looking for a highly motivated and resilient candidate, to manage our community palliative care team, based across St Helens and Knowsley geographical area.

You will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service in the defined area. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients. You will also ensure the delivery of the trust strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

To operationally manage and lead Specialist Nursing Teams whilst being accountable for the performance, quality, and clinical effectiveness of the team. A key outcome of the role is to support your team to understand and own their quality, recognise, and respond to patient safety concerns, whilst identifying, assessing, and managing risk. The post holder is expected to provide direct patient care when necessary, acting as an expert practitionerEnsuring that the specialist nurses within the team practice within a legal and ethical framework that adheres to The Code and local Trust Policies and Procedures., Our vision is to provide a comprehensive and patient-focused approach for people with complex symptoms associated to advanced progressive disease, who are in the last 12 months of life, creating a forward thinking and innovative approach to supportive care. The role requires an understanding of current Initiatives in Palliative and end of life care. You will work as part of a specialist team consisting of clinical nurse specialists, providing holistic needs assessment for patients, advice and support for health professional providing palliative and end of life care in the community and inpatient setting.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with experience in palliative care, evidence of leadership and management experience, with proven advanced communication skills.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.