Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist: Sponsorship Available

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care team as a B7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS).

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and experienced nurse, with a passion for promoting excellence in end of life care.

The successful candidate will work alongside a team of nurses delivering highly specialist palliative care advice, support and monitoring to patients, their families and staff across the Central Cheshire community footprint.

You will work closely with our Palliative Care Medics, and as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team including District Nurses, AHPs, GPs and our local hospital and hospice teams.

This valuable role is equally rewarding and demanding, and we are committed to creating a supportive environment, where supervision, training and development opportunities are actively encouraged to meet the clinical needs of the job.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Contribute to the provision of a co-ordinated specialist palliative care service for patients, families and carers across CCICP.

Have responsibility for a shared caseload of patients with cancer and other life-limiting conditions, with specialist palliative care nursing needs, acting as a keyworker for a percentage of the caseload.

Provide holistic assessment of patients, formulate management plans, and implement care by providing specialist advice on complex pain and symptom management.

Act as a specialist resource for advice to other healthcare professionals across CCICP.Maintaining excellent working relationships with the wider MDT.

Participate in non-clinical aspects of the role including audit, education, and research.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Adult nursing Degree or equivalent
  • Masters level qualification or equivalent
  • Post graduate qualification in palliative care
  • V300 Prescribing Qualification
  • Clinical Diagnostics Qualification
  • Teaching/mentoring qualification
  • Advanced Communication Skills
  • NMC Registration.

Desirable

  • Research Qualification
  • Counselling Skills Training
  • Full UK driving license and car for work purposes

Skills

Essential

  • Advanced communication, negotiation & listening skills
  • Ability to manage/lead junior colleagues
  • Audit skills
  • IT skills
  • Proactive workload management and prioritisation skills
  • Ability to cope under pressure, and deal with complex emotional situations

Desirable

  • Teaching and presentation skills

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant post registration experience in palliative care
  • Experience of multi professional working
  • Evidence of CPD

Desirable

  • Relevant post registration experience of working in NHS services
  • Relevant post registration experience of working in a community setting

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 29 October 2026

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