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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
This job is closed to applications

Location
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc HCA
Profession
Clinical nurse specialist
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
13 May 2025
Contract Type
Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
Posted Date
01 May 2025

Job overview

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care

x1 WTE  12-month Fixed Term opportunity to cover Maternity Leave - 8am-8pm shift pattern.

x1  WTE 12-month Fixed Term  opportunity to cover Maternity Leave - 8am-6pm shift pattern.

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 - Tuesday 13th May 2025 at Midnight

Provisional Interview date - Wednesday 21st May 2025

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

Please  see attached the Functional Requirement Forms for the individual roles.