# Clinical Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St Catherine’s Hospice. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist/4a5c9b4d-d3d2-41d5-842f-4f65d187d147 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist/4a5c9b4d-d3d2-41d5-842f-4f65d187d147.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St Catherine’s Hospice - **Location:** St. Catherines Hospice - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Salary:** £35322.28 to £41626.56 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part-time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T13:28:05.849Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0271-VA266 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/B0271-VA266/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=B0271-VA266 - **Employer website:** https://www.stch.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job summary PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE DIRECTLY ON OUR WEBSITE, USING THE LINK BELOW: https://stcatherineshospice.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=b820a4c2-7d4c-4e51-a3b0-448158dd0b1d St Catherines Hospice is a respected local charity providing specialist hospice care alongside statutory service partners (GPs, District nursing etc) across West Sussex and East Surrey. We provide care in communities across Surrey and Sussex which are richly diverse and we want to reflect that in everything we do. We celebrate and support difference and welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you believe in the importance of what we do, share our values and want to be a part of an outstanding team building something important, wed love to hear from you. This specialist role provides expert support to patients and families in the Community. ### Main duties of the job Are you an experienced clinician with a passion for delivering specialist palliative care? Are you an effective communicator, with substantial post-registration experience, with expertise in Palliative Care? Do you bring confidence, resilience and a compassionate approach? We are seeking a passionate leader with sound knowledge of end of life care with confidence in care planning and individual assessments. If you have computer literacy and experience teaching and developing others we would love to hear from you! Clinical Nurse Specialist will bring: - Ability to listen, plan and communicate - Strong quality and governance awareness - Working as part of an integrated team of clinicians - Undertaking specialist palliative care assessments, and specialising in the advisory and Care Coordinator component of this support This post is offered on a part time, permanent basis, working 28.5 hours per week. Hours worked three shifts per week, over seven days on a rota basis, working 9.5 hours each day. We operate a 365 day service and offer pay enhancements for unsociable hours and weekend working. Please note, the successful candidate will be an essential car user, therefore candidates must have a full driving licence and access to a vehicle. ### About us Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including: - Generous annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with length of service, plus Bank Holidays, and an opportunity to buy / sell annual leave days. Plus we offer a day off for volunteering & moving house. - Generous Pension scheme with up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension. - Life Assurance Scheme, Counselling Offering, and a range of discounts. - Enhanced maternity and adoption pay. If you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: a future where everyone approaching death and those who love and care for them can access compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today. ### Details - Date posted: 12 August 2026 - Pay scheme: Other - Salary: £35,322.28 to £41,626.56 a year Depending on experience - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Part-time - Reference number: B0271-VA266 - Job locations: St. Catherines Hospice, Grace Holland Avenue, Pease Pottage, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11 9SL, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Key Responsibilities: Support and take part in the St Catherines telephone advice line Manage and co-ordinate all aspects of the patient pathway through our services to include ensuring that we continue to provide high standards of holistic and individualised specialist patient care embracing the hospice's vision and values Working with external clinical colleagues ensure that every patient receives a comprehensive nursing assessment and has individualised care plans to reflect their patient centred care needs To be responsible for the continued co-ordination of the content and delivery of your allocated patients care plans, and assure that patients receive the right service from the right team both internally and externally In liaison with other clinicians ensure the overall quality and provision of nursing care of patients and families referred to St Catherines in the community setting have their needs met To promote the principles and practice of specialist palliative care as an extension of the hospice into the community working in collaboration with local neighbourhoods To work across a range of settings, including community visits to patients homes care homes community hospitals and outpatient services To assess the needs of patients and their carers and identify their respective physical psychological social cultural and spiritual needs Be responsible for assurance of standards and clinical governance standard setting and audit To assess peoples information needs and provide relevant information to meet those needs To work within a team framework collaborating with colleagues and members of other disciplines To use a proactive and sensitive approach with patients and relatives to enable involvement in advance care planning To offer bereavement support to carers in collaboration with the Wellbeing team referring them onto appropriate services as required To provide appropriate nursing interventions and care To contribute to patient management governance and liaison by attending Gold Standard Framework (GSF) hospital and other practice and community based meetings To liaise and communicate with community nursing home and hospital staff in order to raise awareness and promote hospice services To foster positive working relations and work alongside Primary Healthcare Teams and with other health care professionals in the delivery of community based palliative care ### UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial post registration experience and expertise in palliative care - Knowledge of disease processes at the end of life - Advanced physical and risk assessment skills - Comprehensive and demonstrable individualised assessment, care planning with advance care planning experience - Demonstrable advanced communication skills - Ability to work independently at a senior level and as part of community and extended statutory teams - Sound community awareness - Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate in writing, in person and by telephone - Listening, negotiating and influencing skills - Demonstrable computer literacy - Awareness of quality and governance processes - Experience of developing and teaching others both formal and informal **Desirable** - Confident presentation skills - Experience of delivering formal education - Experience of contributing to the development of governance frameworks - Experience of working with care homes - Experience of working with people living with dementia and frailty - A knowledge of hospice and national initiatives relating to palliative care - Prescribing and medication recommending experience in palliative symptom control and end of life care ### Qualifications **Essential** - Nursing qualification at degree level - Evidence of continued professional development related to this position - Leadership experience - Advanced communication qualification - Advanced physical assessment qualification or willingness to undertake - Independent prescriber or willingness to undertake - Sound knowledge of palliative and end of life topics and confidence to practice within the role **Desirable** - Masters degree in palliative care or similar, or willingness to undertake modules towards achieving - Post registration degree level qualification in palliative care or oncology - Degree/degree modules in leadership/management - Teaching qualification - Practice assessor and supervisor - Research experience ## 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.