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Job overview
Our Specialist Palliative Care services in Harrow are offering an exciting and innovative opportunity for a specialist palliative care clinical nurse specialist, team lead to join our team. This post will be support and deputising for the clinical lead.
Our overall vision at CLCH NHS Trust is to provide great care closer to home. This is supported by our four key values reflecting our commitment to quality, to collaborative and supportive internal and external relationships, our focus on delivery and working well with our communities.
We are looking for compassionate and enthusiastic individual to come and join our diverse, supportive, and kind team.
We have a diverse and inclusive team who work collaboratively to support our patients to maintain and manage their quality of life and to keep our patients safe.
We are passionate about the delivery of good quality care and the delivery of a progressive service. We are highly committed to providing the best possible experience to the people we serve. To do that, we will support you to be the best that you can in your role and will support your continued development and career progression.
Main duties of the job
- You will work to empower people with advanced progressive illness and those who support them
- You will maximise their individual quality of life and death by enabling the provision of skilled palliative care.
- You will support the clinical lead with management of the team.
- You will support learners.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Skills
Essential
- Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
- Ability to communicate unpleasant /difficult information to patients in a variety of settings with sensitivity.
- Able to analyse data and provide written reports.
- Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area.
- Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
- Able to participate/undertake clinical audit & research
- Experience in researching and clinical audits
- Able to identify learning and development needs and actively seek ways to meet those needs
- Basic computer skills
- Understanding of budget and performance
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Knowledge of the audit process
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice
- Knowledge of clinical governance & supervision and risk management
- Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
- Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration experience at band 7 in this or appropriate speciality
- Previous experience in a post involving clinical and managerial responsibilities
- Previous experience of teaching and developing teaching materials
- Demonstrates evidence of well-developed clinical practice
- Ability to develop new ways of working
- Ability to deal with complex patient care including symptom control and psychological support
- Able to manage own caseload.
- Experience in PDP and setting objectives.
- Conversant with the key principles of clinical governance
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
- First level degree in related subject or evidence of work towards this
- Teaching and assessing qualification or experience.
- Advanced Communication Skills Course
- Level 2 psychology training.
Desirable
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300 / V150
- Qualified MSc
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This advert is for Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Lead with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is per annum, inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Jul 2026.
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