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Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience in field of own practice.
- Experience
The ability to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team as well as mentor and educate junior staff.
- Experience
An understanding of clinical governance frameworks including Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), policy and procedure, audit and qualityassurance.
- Experience
An understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures, particularly those related to vulnerable patients.
- Experience
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be able to problem solve, use own initiative and plan, organise and prioritise own and others'
- Experience
workload.
- Experience
Evidence of continuous professional development and a willingness to participate in further training and education.
- Experience
Competent IT skills.
- Qualifications
Professional adult nursing qualification and clinical knowledge acquired through training to diploma or degree level.
- Qualifications
Plus post graduate training in specialist area OR specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or
- Qualifications
relevant practical experience.
- Qualifications
Leadership/management training and/or experience.
- Qualifications
Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Additional Criteria
As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that isconsistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration thesuccessful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to drivingculture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced individual to join our well-established Supportive and Palliative Care Team based at Royal Papworth Hospital. The team offers a 7-day onsite service.
The post holder will work as a part of a team, to help deliver an expert specialist service for those patients with life limiting illnesses. The CNS team help to care for patients at all stages of their journey and through a variety of treatments in a kind, compassionate manner. You will be committed to the delivery of high-quality holistic patient care, and you will play an active part in clinical practice, management of patient caseload, education, research, audit and professional activities relating to palliative care.
We are looking to appoint highly skilled, experienced and motivated nurse to join our Team. Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence are essential to fulfil this role. You will share our passion to strive to improve and enhance care for this group of patients through direct caseload management, teaching, service improvement, research and audit.
Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who is encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.
Main duties of the job
Please include in your Supporting Information how you will meet the Trust values:
Compassion Excellence Collaboration
Informal visits are welcomed, and any enquiries may be directed to Tracy Simpson Clinical Nurse Specialist tracy.simpson6@nhs.net or Stephen Parish Clinical Nurse Specialist Stephen.parish2@nhs.net 01223 638747
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Details
- Date posted: 26 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 175-2627-1948
- Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
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This advert is for Clinical Nurse Specialist Supportive and Palliative Care with Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 13 Sep 2026.
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