Clinical Nurse Specialist Supportive and Palliative Care: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced individual to join our well-established Supportive and Palliative Care Team based at Royal Papworth Hospital. The team offers a 7-day onsite service.

The post holder will work as a part of a team, to help deliver an expert specialist service for those patients with life limiting illnesses. The CNS team help to care for patients at all stages of their journey and through a variety of treatments in a kind, compassionate manner. You will be committed to the delivery of high-quality holistic patient care, and you will play an active part in clinical practice, management of patient caseload, education, research, audit and professional activities relating to palliative care.

We are looking to appoint highly skilled, experienced and motivated nurse to join our Team. Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence are essential to fulfil this role. You will share our passion to strive to improve and enhance care for this group of patients through direct caseload management, teaching, service improvement, research and audit.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who is encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

Main duties of the job

Please include in your Supporting Information how you will meet the Trust values:

Compassion Excellence Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional adult nursing qualification and clinical knowledge acquired through training to diploma or degree level.
• Plus post graduate training in specialist area OR specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or
• relevant practical experience.
• Leadership/management training and/or experience.
• Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in field of own practice.
• The ability to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team as well as mentor and educate junior staff.
• An understanding of clinical governance frameworks including Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), policy and procedure, audit and qualityassurance.
• An understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures, particularly those related to vulnerable patients.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be able to problem solve, use own initiative and plan, organise and prioritise own and others’
• workload.
• Evidence of continuous professional development and a willingness to participate in further training and education.
• Competent IT skills.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that isconsistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration thesuccessful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to drivingculture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.

Closing Date: 13 September 2026