Clinical Nurse Specialist/Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist

St Christopher’s Hospice; Orpington; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A community palliative care provider in Orpington is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist to support patients in the last phase of life. This role involves facilitating discussions about wishes, providing symptom control, and assisting families while working in a supportive interdisciplinary team. The position offers flexibility in hours and requires proven experience in palliative care. A compassionate approach to care is essential.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Competitive contributory pension scheme

Health and wellbeing schemes

Access to free local street parking

Qualifications

• Proven experience in palliative care/oncology.
• Experience of working at Band 6/equivalent or above.
• Ability to work efficiently in a interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support people entering the last phase of life.
• Assist families and friends, delivering expert care.
• Provide symptom control and emotional support.
• Offering advice to health care team as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Work across a 7-day week providing service.
• Rotate between teams for triage and home visits.

Skills

Compassionate

Resilience

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Education

NMC Registration

Job description

Clinical Nurse Specialist/Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist

Your role will be so important in supporting people who are entering the last phase of their lives to talk about what is important to them and helping them to navigate how their wishes and goals can be achieved. You will also support families and friends as well as providing expert care that will support a dignified death. You will offer the people we support your skills in symptom control, social, emotional and spiritual care, in addition to providing advice, support and education to the primary health care team and hospital staff where appropriate, as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be so important in supporting people who are entering the last phase of their lives to talk about what is important to them and helping them to navigate how their wishes and goals can be achieved. You will also support families and friends as well as providing expert care that will support a dignified death. You will offer the people we support your skills in symptom control, social, emotional and spiritual care, in addition to providing advice, support and education to the primary health care team and hospital staff where appropriate, as part of an interdisciplinary team.

About us

St Christophers, in our experience, is an extraordinary place to work.

Our aim at St Christophers is to deliver care and support that is of the highest quality to our patients, their families and carers and anyone else who looks to us for help. We know that people working across our organisation will only be able to provide this if they in turn, feel supported in their endeavours.

Job responsibilities

• Support people entering the last phase of life, facilitating conversations about their priorities.
• Assist families and friends, delivering expert care that supports a dignified death.
• Provide symptom control, social, emotional and spiritual care.
• Offer advice, support and education to the primary health care team and hospital staff as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Work across a 7‑day week, providing service from 7.30am to 9pm.
• Rotate between Referrals and Urgent Response Team (StARRT) for telephone and video triage, home visits and outpatient care.

Location and Hours

Location: Bromley

Department: Community Palliative Care Team

Hours: 30 hours per week (Monday‑Sunday on a rota basis); we will consider 3 or 4 days per week.

Salary

Band 7: £53,751 – £60,651 per annum (inclusive of HCA, equivalent to AfC band 7)

Band 6: £44,485 – £52,521 per annum (inclusive of HCA, equivalent to AfC band 6)

Benefits of joining St Christophers

• You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community.
• Access to excellent training and development opportunities including masters level education and non‑medical prescribing.
• A number of health and wellbeing schemes.
• A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan.
• Access to plenty of free local street parking.

To succeed in this role

You will need to be a compassionate and resilient person. For our Clinical Nurse Specialist (equivalent of AfC band 7), you will have proven experience in palliative care/oncology with relevant qualifications and experience of working at Band 6/equivalent or above. We require you to possess excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to work efficiently in a disciplinary team and manage stressful situations.

Contact

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Eva Trowers, Consultant Nurse, on 0208 768 4500 or [e-mail].

Please have a look at our website for further information on all aspects of St Christophers at www.stchristophers.org.uk and to apply for this position, please click the Apply Online button below.

Closing Date: 7th December 2025

Provisional interview date: TBC

In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.

Person Specification

See section below.

Qualifications

• NMC Registration

Experience

Experience in end‑of‑life care, or a desire to develop a career in palliative care, is required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.