# Community Palliative Care Nurse Specialist, Band 6 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-palliative-care-nurse-specialist-band-6/728575be-9e38-44e8-84e8-b2cf1baeef51 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-palliative-care-nurse-specialist-band-6/728575be-9e38-44e8-84e8-b2cf1baeef51.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cheltenham - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 (pa, pro rata if part-time) - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed-term 12 month role) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm over 5 working days a week) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T14:01:22.198Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialist_Palliative_Care/Specialist_Palliative_Care-v8059710 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8059710?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a unique opportunity to obtain a fixed-term post and gain experience working within community specialist palliative care. The successful candidate will work as a clinical nurse specialist in managing a caseload of patients, living with life limiting conditions who have complex symptoms and needs. within primary care. This is a unique opportunity for a successful candidate to have a secondment on a fixed-term contract. Informal discussions and visits to the department are actively encouraged Additional working pattern details: 9am - 5pm over 5 working days a week ### Main duties of the job - To work autonomously assessing patients and carers within the community setting, with complex physical, emotional, social and psychological symptoms as indicated to enable an appropriate plan of care to be developed. - To provide support and give specialist clinical advice to health care professionals, patients and carers concerning the care and treatment for palliative patients in all areas, hence ensuring effective decision making can be reached and appropriate treatment plans are developed. This will include frequently advising on medication, psychological issues and further treatments. - To establish and maintain effective communication relating to complex, sensitive and potentially stressful situations on a regular basis. Breaking bad news with patients, relatives, carers and other professionals throughout the patient’s illness. Supporting relatives, carers and staff in bereavement with the ability to recognize and refer on for complicated grief reactions. - To identify, organize and evaluate specialist intervention in response to complex needs on a daily basis. This includes identifying oncological/medical/palliative care emergencies, analysing clinical options and liaising with appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification attached to this advert. To contact, visit and review patients with complex symptoms and needs within primary care. Patient contacts are flexible to meet person-centred coordinated care. A high level of autonomy and independent working is expected, on a backdrop of working within a supportive and integrated MDT. ## Job Details This is a unique opportunity to obtain a fixed-term post and gain experience working within community specialist palliative care. The successful candidate will work as a clinical nurse specialist in managing a caseload of patients, living with life limiting conditions who have complex symptoms and needs. within primary care. This is a unique opportunity for a successful candidate to have a secondment on a fixed-term contract. Informal discussions and visits to the department are actively encouraged Additional working pattern details: 9am - 5pm over 5 working days a week ## Job Description - To work autonomously assessing patients and carers within the community setting, with complex physical, emotional, social and psychological symptoms as indicated to enable an appropriate plan of care to be developed. - To provide support and give specialist clinical advice to health care professionals, patients and carers concerning the care and treatment for palliative patients in all areas, hence ensuring effective decision making can be reached and appropriate treatment plans are developed. This will include frequently advising on medication, psychological issues and further treatments. - To establish and maintain effective communication relating to complex, sensitive and potentially stressful situations on a regular basis. Breaking bad news with patients, relatives, carers and other professionals throughout the patient’s illness. Supporting relatives, carers and staff in bereavement with the ability to recognize and refer on for complicated grief reactions. - To identify, organize and evaluate specialist intervention in response to complex needs on a daily basis. This includes identifying oncological/medical/palliative care emergencies, analysing clinical options and liaising with appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team. ## Responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification attached to this advert. To contact, visit and review patients with complex symptoms and needs within primary care. Patient contacts are flexible to meet person-centred coordinated care. A high level of autonomy and independent working is expected, on a backdrop of working within a supportive and integrated MDT. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - RGN with substantial post registration experience - Ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills, and capable of receiving constructive feedback for professional growth - Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills - Experience working with optimising and managing symptoms - Demonstrates understating of specialist palliative care and it's difference in provision from other providers of palliative and end of life care - Demonstrates ability to work independently and as part of an integrated team - Significant and in depth NHS experience of which should be contact with palliative care, oncology, or community nursing - Current driving license **Desirable** - Evidence of completion of Advanced Communication Skills Training or equivalent - Evidence of formal palliative care/symptom control training - Evidence of working within a community setting/lone working - Evidence of clinical leadership ## Documents - [why work for us - rewards and benefits (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2952) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 256.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10349890) ## 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.