Clinical Nurse Specialist/Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Orpington; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Orpington is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide compassionate care in palliative settings. This role involves supporting patients and families, offering expert advice to the healthcare team, and ensuring dignified end-of-life experiences. Candidates should possess NMC registration and relevant experience in oncology or palliative care. The position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Access to excellent training and development opportunities

Health and wellbeing schemes

Contributory pension scheme

Access to free local parking

Qualifications

• Proven experience in palliative care/oncology.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support people in the last phase of their lives.
• Provide expert care for dignified death.
• Offer advice and support to primary health care team.

Skills

Compassionate care

Effective communication

Symptom control

Teamwork

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

Clinical Nurse Specialist (Palliative Care) Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist

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

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

Please note, salary will be determined on service and experience within the role and please can you state which site you would like to work at within your personal statement.

Do you aspire to work for a forward thinking, progressive organisation that is highly regarded around the globe? Would you like to be part of a committed and supportive multi-disciplinary team that delivers empowering and compassionate care and support? Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills within an organisation that values their staff and offers a comprehensive wellbeing programme? Then St Christophers, and this role may be for you.

St Christophers has services spanning the London boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and are connected to partner health and social care organisations in all the boroughs we support. St Christophers CARE, provides learning and development to the communities we support, and we have academic links with a number of universities, nationally and internationally.

We are looking for compassionate nurses to join our community palliative care team. Our team works across a 7-day week, providing a service from 7.30am to 9pm.

With sites in both Sydenham and Bromley, this post would sit within our Bromley Community Palliative Care Team with potential opportunity to rotate between our Referrals and Urgent Response Team (StARRT). In these roles, our skilled team provides telephone and video triage, visiting people in their homes across Bromley, Croydon, Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark; and also see people in our outpatient department. You will be a registered nurse or paramedic with experience in end of life care, or who would like to develop your career in palliative care, we could have the opportunity for you.

Your new role

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.

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.

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.

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: 8th October 2025

Provisional interview date: 13th October 2025

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

Qualifications

• NMC Registration

Experience

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.