Job summary
- Main area
- Community Specialist Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-ONW-7353701
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Honeypot Health Centre
- Town
- Stanmore
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Lead
Band 7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Our Specialist Palliative Care services in Harrow are offering an exciting and innovative opportunity for a specialist palliative care clinical nurse specialist, team lead to join our team. This post will be support and deputising for the clinical lead.
Our overall vision at CLCH NHS Trust is to provide great care closer to home. This is supported by our four key values reflecting our commitment to quality, to collaborative and supportive internal and external relationships, our focus on delivery and working well with our communities.
We are looking for compassionate and enthusiastic individual to come and join our diverse, supportive, and kind team.
We have a diverse and inclusive team who work collaboratively to support our patients to maintain and manage their quality of life and to keep our patients safe.
We are passionate about the delivery of good quality care and the delivery of a progressive service. We are highly committed to providing the best possible experience to the people we serve. To do that, we will support you to be the best that you can in your role and will support your continued development and career progression.
Main duties of the job
- You will work to empower people with advanced progressive illness and those who support them
- You will maximise their individual quality of life and death by enabling the provision of skilled palliative care.
- You will support the clinical lead with management of the team.
- You will support learners.
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Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here:https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
- First level degree in related subject or evidence of work towards this
- Teaching and assessing qualification or experience.
- Advanced Communication Skills Course
- Level 2 psychology training.
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300 / V150
- Qualified MSc
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience at band 7 in this or appropriate speciality
- Previous experience in a post involving clinical and managerial responsibilities.
- Previous experience of teaching and developing teaching materials
- Demonstrates evidence of well-developed clinical practice
- Ability to develop new ways of working
- Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
- Able to manage own caseload.
- Experience in PDP and setting objectives.
Desirable criteria
- Conversant with the key principles of clinical governance
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate unpleasant /difficult information to patients in a variety of settings with sensitivity.
- Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
- Detailed knowledge of Primary Health Care and collaborative working with other care providers, e.g. social care and voluntary services
Desirable criteria
- Able to influence management and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills.
Other
Desirable criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Community Specialist Palliative Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07586 436 543
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