Clinical Nurse Specialist

The Royal Marsden; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Symptom and Palliative Care for Children and Young People. This part-time role delivers advanced nursing care within a specialist CYP team, supporting families across care settings and MDTs.

You will be a clinical expert, educator, and research-active leader, ensuring high-quality care for children with cancer and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Registration as a first level nurse with children’s nursing qualification.
• Experience or qualification in paediatric oncology preferred.
• Commitment to higher degree studies is encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive symptom and palliative care to CYP with cancer across settings.
• Act as expert clinical resource for CYP, families and healthcare professionals.
• Coordinate care with MDTs across hospital, primary care and POSCUs.
• Deliver high-quality autonomous nursing care with clinical judgment.
• Demonstrate professional leadership and coach junior staff.

Skills

Project management

Person-centred care

Lead practice

Communication with families

Time management

Innovative practice

Standards setting

Caseload management

MDT collaboration

Autonomy

Influence professionals

Education

First level registration

Registered children’s nurse

Children’s oncology qualification/experience

First level degree

Teaching qualification

Higher degree encouraged

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and compassionate Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Symptom and Palliative Care for Children and Young People. This part‑time role is based at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, where you will be a key part of a specialist team providing high-quality palliative care services to children and young people with cancer.

If you are committed to making a difference in the lives of children and young people with cancer, we would love to hear from you. This role offers an incredible opportunity to work within a leading cancer centre and be part of an innovative and supportive team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive and high‑quality symptom and palliative care service to children and young people (CYP) receiving treatment at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and their families. You will work with other members of the CYPOONS team and the Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care to provide advanced nursing care to this patient group. The post holder will be a clinical expert, sound educator, committed researcher and proficient leader.

The post holder will work with and support multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) in the Royal Marsden Hospital, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), voluntary sector and Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Units (POSCUs), to co‑ordinate and manage symptom and palliative care for this cohort of CYPs across settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide professional and clinical leadership for CYPs with symptom and palliative care needs across care settings.
• To act as an expert clinical resource for symptom and palliative care for CYPs, their families and healthcare professionals across care settings. These settings will include home, hospice, GP and POSCU’s
• To provide support to CYP’s and their families where required through community visits to hospital, home or hospice along with relevant allied healthcare professionals as above.
• To provide expert clinical care to this group of CYPs and their families.
• To demonstrate a high degree of professional autonomy, using clinical judgment, to provide advice.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• First level registration
• Registered children’s nurse
• Children’s oncology qualification/experience
• First level degree
• Teaching qualification
• Willingness to undertake higher degree

Desirable criteria

• Children’s community nursing qualification/experience
• Experience in research
• Non‑medical prescribing qualification
• Physical assessment skills qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Nursing experience.

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working within symptom and/or palliative care.

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines.
• Evidence of delivering person‑centred care and demonstrating organisational values in clinical practice.
• Evidence of leading practice improvements or influencing multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes.
• Able to communicate effectively with children, young people, families and multidisciplinary teams in sensitive and complex situations.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Evidence of innovative practice/evidence‑based care.
• Ability to set and monitor standards.
• Able to prioritise competing demands and manage a complex caseload whilst maintaining safe and effective patient care.
• Ability to work effectively with members of the MDT across various boundaries.
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Ability to lead and influence professional colleagues

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to both sites if required.
• Flexibility of working hours to meet service needs
• Car owner / driver

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient‑facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.