Clinical Nurse Specialist Community Palliative Care

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare organization in London seeks an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care. This Band 7 role involves working within a multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality patient-centered care in the community. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and communication skills, along with a commitment to excellence in clinical practice. Opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training, support and development

Car lease scheme

Qualifications

• Relevant post registration experience at band 6 or above.
• Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert high quality patient focused care.
• Support community teams in delivering palliative care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Compassion

Motivation

Education

First level degree in related subject

Teaching and assessing qualification

Non-Medical Prescriber V300

Qualified MSc

Job description

Main area Clinical Nurse Specialist Community Palliative Care Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 824-ONW-7197844

Employer Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Honeypot Lane Centre for Health Town London Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59

Clinical Nurse Specialist Community Palliative Care

Band 7

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Palliative Care CNS to work within the community setting. We are looking for an experienced, autonomous, and innovative nurse to join the integrated specialist palliative care nursing team.

This is a Band 7 community-based palliative care CNS post, working alongside, Community Nursing Services, Consultants, Therapists, and wider MDT to ensure that the service and team are providing expert high quality patient focused care to advice and support patients, families and Health Care Professionals.

You will be working closely with GP's, Community Teams and Acute Trust staff. As an integral part of community nursing, you will support community teams to feel confident and competent to deliver good palliative and end of life patient centred care and providing expertise for patients with palliative care needs across the borough.

Main duties of the job

Enthusiasm, motivation, compassion, and leadership are qualities and skills considered essential for this specialist nurse role to work in a very challenging environment; you will be expected to have a commitment to and progressive work within the field of palliative care. Additionally, you must be able to demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, acting as a resource for information and education, while working alongside the other specialist services.

In return we can offer you a supportive, friendly working environment with opportunities for personal and professional development. You will be supported by the Clinical Lead.

For further information and to arrange an informal visit please contact: Lorraine Gilbert [e-mail]
Telephone [phone]

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

• First level degree in related subject or evidence of work towards this
• Teaching and assessing qualification or experience
• Advanced Communication Skills Course
• Level 2 psychology training
• Non-Medical Prescriber V300
• Qualified MSc

Experience

• Relevant post registration experience at band 6 or above in this or appropriate speciality
• Previous experience in a post involving clinical and managerial responsibilities.
• Previous experience of teaching and developing teaching materials
• Demonstrates evidence of well-developed clinical practice
• Ability to develop new ways of working
• Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
• Able to manage own caseload
• Conversant with the key principles of clinical governance

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to develop new ways of working
• Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
• Able to manage own caseload
• Ability to communicate unpleasant /difficult information to patients in a variety of settings with sensitivity
• Able to analyse data and provide written reports.
• Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area
• Able to present information to professional groups.
• Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
• Able to participate/undertake clinical audit & research
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Able to influence management and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills

Other

• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Change agent - participating in implementing changes within practice
• Recognition and management of own limitations
• Able to take a self-reflective approach to own practice
• Awareness of self as a role mode
• Assertive, confident, approachable, and friendly
• Clearance from DBS at enhanced Level
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010) See below Assessment will t

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.