# Clinical Nurse Specialist - Specialist Palliative Care Peterborough

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Peterborough
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (including weekends and Bank Holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-07T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23T09:52:35.175Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Palliative/Palliative-v8136891
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8136891?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Shape the Future of Specialist Palliative Care with NWAFT!

Are you passionate about enhancing the lives of patients with complex palliative and end-of-life care needs? We have an exceptional opportunity to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (NWAFT), where you’ll play a key role in delivering and influencing holistic care across our acute hospitals and community settings.

As part of our integrated Specialist Palliative Care service, you will work across both the acute hospital setting and community setting,  demonstrating how our service can support Patients in a joined up way . Here, you will bring your expertise in symptom control and caseload management, ensuring that patients with complex needs receive the highest standard of care across the service

What We’re Looking For:

- A dynamic, adaptable professional with a deep commitment to specialist palliative care, willing to take on a new challenge and work across the service flexibly to meet Patient need.
- Proficiency in symptom management and caseload handling, with a collaborative approach to working across diverse settings.
- Access to your own vehicle, as you will be required to travel within the community and between sites.

### Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

- Deliver compassionate care for patients and carers, managing complex symptoms with expertise.
- Educate healthcare professionals on best practices in end-of-life and specialist palliative care across both acute hospital and community settings.
- Actively engage in audits and clinical governance to uphold standards of excellence in palliative care.
- Line manage junior staff

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding this role, please refer to the full job description for a full list of responsibilities.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Ability to drive/ travel

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Specialist palliative care symptom control and ability to identify palliative emergencies.
- - Holistic Palliative Assessment
- - Up to date knowledge of palliative care guidance and best practice local and national initiatives
- - Ethical dilemmas and how to approach them
- - Legislation including knowledge of Mental Capacity and Care Act .

### Experience

**Essential**

- Can demonstrate nurse leadership through extended roles
- Multi-disciplinary Team working
- Managing people

**Desirable**

- Up to date evidence of 4 Pillars of Practice

### Key Skills

**Essential**

- - Ability to work collaboratively and build positive working relationships
- - Good written and verbal communication Skills
- - Demonstrate ability to formulate a patient plan of care

**Desirable**

- - Quality Improvement and innovation

### Education and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Advanced Communication Skills
- Specialist Module in palliative care

**Desirable**

- Masters level qualification or unit in specialist palliative care
- Independent prescriber

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 751.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10480127)
- [psp1 (pdf, 336.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435295)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886)
- [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865)
- [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745)
- [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788)

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