# Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist-palliative-and-end-of-life-care/05068d5f-f5e9-409b-b88e-0453b708a8df - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist-palliative-and-end-of-life-care/05068d5f-f5e9-409b-b88e-0453b708a8df.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. Inclusive of HCA - **Contract type:** 2 x Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day working pattern including weekends and bank holidays.) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-20T10:42:32.762Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Palliative_End_Life_Care/Palliative_End_Life_Care-v8162772 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8162772?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Band 7 - Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care 2 x 1.0 WTE (substantive) 7 day working pattern including weekends and bank holidays. We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Palliative and End of Life Care team. We provide fully integrated 24/7 clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative and end of life care needs, based on current evidence and best practice across inpatient and community settings. Our dedicated Palliative and End of Life Care team provides rapid response to patients in the dying phase and our overnight service (Pal@Home) support people to remain in their preferred place of care. We really look forward to welcoming you to our team! Please contact \[email protected\]  to find out more about our team and your chance to join us. You will have the opportunity to work alongside wider specialist teams including Learning Disabilities, Health Inclusion Team, Neighbourhood Nursing, Dementia and Delirium. Closing date - Monday 3rd August 2026 at Midnight Provisional Interview date -  Tuesday 11th August 2026 Applicants who have applied for this position in the last three months are requested not to submit another application. ### Main duties of the job The successful post holder will lead and support the delivery of excellent personalised care to patients and families across the Boroughs of Lambeth & Southwark, in their own homes and care homes. You will provide specialist advice on pain and other physical symptoms as well as psychological, emotional, social and spiritual concerns. Our team includes nursing, pharmacy, medical, social work, and psychology colleagues. Our Band 7 nurses participate in developing our Band 6 nurses within the team with support from our Matrons, Consultant Nurse & Deputy Head of Nursing. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and personal specification for a detailed description of the roles and responsibilities for this post ## Person Specification ### Previous Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care. - Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice - Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level - Experience of delivering patient advocacy - Experience of audit, research & evidence based care - Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator ### Skills/Knowledge/Ability **Essential** - Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty. - Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes. - Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition. - Ability to clinically lead & influence staff - Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, communication skills - Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues - Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing - Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills - Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care - Time management and organisation skills - Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully - Demonstrate an understanding of: the National agenda for speciality. Knowledge of quality standards & NICE recommendations/NSF - Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research - Ability to carry out audit and research - IT Skills - Presentation skills **Desirable** - Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings - Undertaken clinical & nursing research ### Qualifications / education **Essential** - BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience - Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent. - Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience - Leadership course - Mentorship course **Desirable** - To have or be working towards a Master’s degree - To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course ## Documents - [band 7 cns frf (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463732) - [band 7 cns paeolc ps (pdf, 48.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463731) - [band 7 cns paeolc jd (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463730) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.