Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist in London. Join a dynamic team at Imperial College Healthcare, providing expert care and support to patients and their families while managing your own caseload. Enjoy career development, flexible working, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• NMC registration in Adult Nursing required.
• Extensive experience in Palliative/end of life care.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert palliative care nursing advice.
• Manage a clinical caseload as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Champion a culture of learning and quality improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Advanced Communication

Emotional Resilience

Education

Degree level study in Palliative Care

Master’s degree in relevant subject

Advanced physical assessment qualification

Job description

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

12.05.2025

Expiry Date:

26.06.2025

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Macmillan Palliative care Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our dynamic team Imperial College Healthcare.

As a Palliative care Clinical Nurse Specialist you will provide expert palliative care nursing advice, to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients and relatives/carers, in collaboration with the multi professional team, in line with the local and national targets.

The successful candidate willmanage their own caseload of patients, working as a part of the multi-disciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team. They will maintain effective communication with patients, families/carers and other healthcare professionals, to ensure seamless service delivery.

As part of the Specialist Palliative care team, you will undertake comprehensive palliative care assessments identifying/diagnosing patients physical, social, psychological, cultural and spiritual needs; to facilitate the provision of quality nursing care and to contribute to decisions regarding clinical care and priorities.

Main duties of the job

• As a key member of a multi professional team, ensure appropriate referral and
  discussion with other members of the team to optimise patient care.
• Ensure patients are assessed, have care plans that are implemented and
  evaluated in accordance with Trust’s evidence based procedural documents.
• To have local open and transparent communication channels that support the
  multidisciplinary team to do the right thing for people we care for, to be bold when
  they have good ideas and to speak up when things go wrong.
• Act as a clinical expert for palliative and end of life care.
• Ensure staffing is in line with Trust policy.
• Manage budgets and resources efficiently and effectively.
• Champion a culture of learning and quality improvement within the team
• Be an ambassador for palliative and end of life care across the Trust.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk tous at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Appropriate NMC registration (Adult Nursing)
• Degree level study or willingness to work towards Palliative care qualification
• Advanced Communication course or similar
• Master’s degree or working towards in relevant subject
• Advanced physical assessment qualification
• Non-medical prescriber, or ready and willing to train as such

Experience

• Extensive experience within Palliative/ end of life care/long term conditions
• Experience of managing a clinical caseload.
• Experience of delivering educational sessions and developing training programmes
• Ability to deal with difficult emotional situations
• Recruitment and selection skills
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Experience with managing change in the work place

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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