Clinical Nurse Specialist St Helens

Location: St. Helens, Merseyside

Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum D.O.E (plus bonus)

Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday with no on‑call, shifts, or nights.

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for a better work‑life balance and a role where your clinical expertise directly supports people with complex health needs? If you have experience in complex care, trauma care delivery, critical care, or ICU, this could be your ideal next step.

About the Role

It is a specialist role that requires clinical expertise along with the ability to manage and prioritise workloads. We are looking for someone who shares our values and is as enthusiastic about care as we are. You will be based at your local Apollo Home Healthcare office in St Helens, but some flexibility is required as you will be travelling to clients’ homes across Merseyside. There’s never been a more exciting moment to join the Apollo Home Healthcare team, as we continue to grow, evolve, and expand the impact of the care we provide.

Main duties of the job

• Taking clinical ownership of complex care caseloads, including the occasional paediatric complex care package.
• Creating, managing, and reviewing bespoke care plans.
• Leading and delivering clinical training for Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers.
• Ensuring safe, compliant, high‑quality care in line with national standards.
• Reviewing clinical documentation, including MAR charts and care records.
• Building strong, supportive relationships with our clients, their families, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Providing ongoing mandatory training and development in line with national standards.

This role combines office‑based responsibilities with community visits to our clients, focusing on the training, assessment, and competency of Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers.

About us

At Apollo Home Healthcare, we deliver high‑quality, person‑centred care to adults and children in their own homes. Every package is tailored to our clients’ individual needs, and as a Clinical Nurse Specialist you will play a key role in shaping safe, effective, and compassionate clinical care.

Job responsibilities

• To promote the Apollo Home Healthcare brand to all prospective clients and healthcare professionals, undertake assessment of new referrals and reviews of current service user care plans as well as assist in the recruitment and interviewing of potential new staff.
• There will be a requirement to manage appraisal and supervision of staff.
• Provide person‑centred nursing care and support to service users, their families and healthcare assistants.
• Participate as part of a team and using a person‑centred approach, assess, plan, implement and evaluate care delivered.
• Maintain and oversee the maintenance of appropriate associated service user records.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Valid NMC Pin with at least 2 years post‑qualification experience.
• Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle.

Skills and Experience

We are looking for passionate and compassionate nurses with experience in:

• Airway management, including tracheostomy care and suctioning.
• Ventilation management (invasive and non‑invasive).
• Enteral feeding (PEG / JEJ / NG).

Desirable

• Experience with spinal injuries, acquired brain injuries, degenerative or neurological conditions is beneficial but not essential. Additional training can be provided.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.