Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist - Community-Based

Marie Curie UK; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined contribution pension

Marie Curie Group Personal Pension

Eyecare cost assistance

Benefit Hub discounts

Marie Curie shop discount (15%)

Marie Curie Blue Light Card

Job summary

Marie Curie is seeking experienced Clinical Nurse Specialists to deliver proactive palliative care within the Solihull Identification and Support Service across six Primary Care Networks. You will help identify patients earlier, review end-of-life registers, and support advance care planning in a coordinated, community-based setting.

Join a multidisciplinary team embedded in primary care, supporting GP practices and local services to improve outcomes, reduce avoidable crises and enhance patient

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on the NMC register with a nursing degree and Level 6+ qualification.
• Experience in specialist palliative care, ideally within community or primary care settings.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage a caseload and influence multidisciplinary decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, including sensitive conversations with patients and families.
• Experience collaborating with multiple partners to improve coordination and patient access to care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist palliative care nursing support across six Primary Care Networks.
• Support earlier identification of people approaching the last year of life via proactive register review and MDT participation.
• Undertake holistic assessment, care planning, symptom management and evaluation for complex needs.
• Support advance care planning and treatment escalation planning conversations.
• Record patient preferences for care and place of death where appropriate.
• Work with GP practices, community services, acute, hospice and other partners to coordinate integrated care.
• Contribute to mobilisation, pathway development, data collection and performance reporting.
• Use outcomes, audits and quality improvement to inform service development.

Skills

NMC registration

Nursing degree

Level 6+ qualification

Autonomous working

Communication skills

Care planning

Education

Nursing degree

Level 6+ qualification

Job description

Marie Curie is seeking experienced Clinical Nurse Specialists to deliver proactive palliative care within the Solihull Identification and Support Service across six Primary Care Networks. You will help identify patients earlier, review end-of-life registers, and support advance care planning in a coordinated, community-based setting.

Join a multidisciplinary team embedded in primary care, supporting GP practices and local services to improve outcomes, reduce avoidable crises and enhance patient