Job summary
- Main area
- Community Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 824-HERTS-7904555
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 16 Building Research establishment
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £51,657 - £58,785 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services, part of Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust, provides a wide range of community-based services. The Hertfordshire Division is currently recruiting.
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. This is a full-time, permanent role. The successful applicant will join a supportive, highly motivated multidisciplinary team working collaboratively to deliver high quality specialist palliative care within the community.
The Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) will join an established, integrated palliative care team working across organisational boundaries. The team supports patients with a range of cancer and non cancer diagnoses, including long term conditions. The post holder will be part of the CLCH Specialist Palliative Care Service.
The role contributes to the wider cancer and palliative care agenda, helping to deliver a flexible, responsive service that reflects local population needs across Hertfordshire.
This is a community based role that requires regular travel to visit patients across the locality. Applicants will therefore need to be able to drive and have access to a car for work purposes.
Main duties of the job
• Provide highly specialist palliative care advice and support to generalist nurses, care agencies, and other health professionals, including doctors and consultants, to ensure high quality, individualised patient care.
• Use advanced communication, clinical judgement, and decision making skills within palliative care settings.
• Apply appropriate specialist skills when managing challenging situations, including distress or heightened emotional responses from patients and carers.
• Work effectively as an autonomous practitioner, managing responsibilities independently while also contributing as a valued member of the multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and manage a caseload of patients with complex needs, working alongside colleagues to ensure patients, carers, and professionals receive appropriate specialist palliative care support.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life’s most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- First level nurse registration
- Current NMC registration
- First level degree or undertaking a first level degree
- Willingness to undertake further academic or practical study at a higher level for e.g. Master’s degree
- Suitable applicants will have demonstrable post registration experience working at a senior level
- Candidates should have attained an appropriate level of experience to the fulfil the competencies required in palliative care or oncology
- Teaching qualification or willing to undertake
- Extended nurse prescribing qualification or willing to undertake
- Certificate in counselling or willing to undertake
Experience
Essential criteria
- Community experience
- Evidence of experience in a teaching and mentoring role
- Experience of cross boundary working in partnership and collaboration with health, social and voluntary sectors
- Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
- Understanding of current political and policy context in Primary health Care
- Knowledge of research processes
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its implications
- Knowledge of resource management
- Up to date evidence of continued professional development and of reflective practice in a professional portfolio
- Proven leadership skills in some aspect of service development
- Experience of participation in research, audit and evaluation
- Experience of leading change and innovation
- Experience of using counselling skills
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Has a wide range of Palliative and end of life care clinical skills
- Ability to utilise a range of expert communication methods appropriate to situation
- Is able to use communication theories to inform and to organise care packages as appropriate
- Is able to communicate complex, and sensitive information which requires empathy and reassurance related to palliative care patients and their families and professionals working with them
- Has ability to use influencing, negotiating and counselling skills in highly emotive atmosphere
- 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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Whiteman
- Job title
- Clinical lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07909966392
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