Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

We are excited to be recruiting to our Community Specialist
Palliative Care Nursing Team for North Worcestershire.

The service covers a wide area from Tenbury Wells in the west to
the outskirts of Birmingham in the east. The service has two location, Princess
of Wales Hospital in Bromsgrove and KEMP Hospice in Kidderminster. The
advertised post is to be based at Bromsgrove, with an expectation of supporting
the west side as clinical need requires.

We provide a service 365 days a year from 9am to 5pm, with weekend
and bank holidays covered by a rota which the successful applicant will join
once they have settled into the team.

You should be an effective team member
willing to share experience and knowledge of palliative care to help support
your colleagues as well as a willingness to learn and develop as the team
strives to deliver excellent care.

It is
essential you can fulfil the travel requirements of the post.

As a member of the Specialist
Palliative Care Team and an employee of our Trust you will benefit from:

Working
within a supportive and valued team of professionals

Continuous
Professional Development

Flexible
working, allowing you to maintain work-life balance

Access
to LGBT, BAME, Disability and Carers Forums

Wellbeing
and support programmes

A
wide range of NHS discounts.

Main duties of the job

The
successful candidate will be working collaboratively with Palliative Care
services across North Worcestershire including Palliative Medicine Consultants,
Palliative Care in-patient Unit, Neighbourhood Teams, specialist palliative
care services and specialist services within the neighbouring acute Trusts, Hospices
and primary care colleagues to provide expert advice for patients with a life
limiting diagnosis. The role will include caseload management, being a primary
resource to health professionals in care settings giving advice for symptom
control and advance care planning. You will attend and present patients to the weekly
MDT meeting and actively support the GSF meetings held by primary care
colleagues. The role will also require you to undertake audit, critically
appraising current research to apply to practice, updating policies to reflect
these developments as well as supporting and leading research projects.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse.
  • Degree or equivalent.
  • Relevant short courses e.g. Symptom Control and End of Life Care.
  • Able to demonstrate the ability to teach with relevant recognised teaching qualification.
  • Evidence of continual professional development.
  • Willingness to undertake a Non-Medical Prescribing course.
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Desirable

  • Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification or willingness to complete.
  • Post graduate qualification in palliative care or completion of the Princess Alice Course.
  • Advanced Communication Skills (formal course).
  • Recent attendance at a Pain and Symptom Control Course.

Experience

Essential

  • Significant post basic experience.
  • Experience of working within the field of palliative care / caring for palliative patients.
  • Considerable experience in a nursing role whilst working with the multidisciplinary team; communicating effectively at differing levels.
  • Considerable experience in a nursing role managing complex patients.
  • Extensive experience of Caseload and / or team management.
  • Experience of clinical audit and / or utilisation of research skills.
  • Experience in developing and / or reviewing standards / policies.
  • Experience of incorporating policy / evidence into practice.

Desirable

  • Teaching/presentation experience.
  • Experience of managing a caseload independently.
  • Experience of holding ReSPECT and Advanced Care Planning conversations with patients.
  • Experience of undertaking audit and research.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge of caring for patients with life limiting illness.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Experience of completing a holistic patient assessment.

Desirable

  • Experience of supporting and teaching patients how to manage their symptoms to help improve their daily lives.

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: 28 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.