Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-BANK- LIT1447
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Honeypot Lane Health Centre
- Town
- Stanmore
- Salary
- £26.30 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 14:00
Employer heading
Bank Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist,
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 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - 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.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Palliative Care will work to empower people with advanced progressive illnesses and those who support them to maximise their individual quality of life and death by enabling the provision of skilled palliative care.
Key Working Relationships
Specialist Palliative Care services in Harrow and NWL, particularly at St Luke’s Hospice, acute based Palliative Care and Macmillan services, General practitioners, adult community service providers including other specialist teams and district nursing, social services.
Main duties of the job
The CNS in Palliative Care works as a member of Harrow Community services within Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. The team is comprised of a nurse team leader, 6.3 WTE clinical nurse specialists, (one in a development role) one full time specialist palliative care occupational therapist, 3 part time consultants in Palliative Medicine and 1.2 WTE team administrators.
Acting as a specialist resource to provide advice, support and information to patients, families and staff, the CNS plays a key role in raising clinical standards in the provision of palliative care services in the community. The CNS will act as a role model and exercise leadership to influence and develop the practice of nurses, medical and social care personnel in palliative and end of life care.
Your healthcare closer to home www.clch.nhs.uk
In collaboration with the Palliative Care Consultants and other members of the specialist multi-disciplinary team (MDT) the post holder will provide expert advice on pain, symptom control and the ongoing management of patients with specialist palliative care needs.
The post holder will work within the Harrow Community Palliative Care Service, serving the residents of the borough of Harrow, which has over 240,000 residents. Harrow is one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in England and Wales (Office of National Statistic) with over 60% of the population being from minority ethnic group
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 see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- First level nursing 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
- Qualified MSc
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience at band 6 or above 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 deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
- Able to manage own caseload
Desirable criteria
- Conversant with the key principles of clinical governance
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
- Ability to communicate unpleasant /difficult information to patients in a variety of settings with sensitivity.
- Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- Able to influence management and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills.
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
- Sonia Stapleton
- Job title
- Recruitment Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01923961201
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