# Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse (West)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** SPC Office - St Michaels Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Salary:** £49387.00 to £56515.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Part time hours available
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Occasional weekend working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13T09:11:37.542Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8172043
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8172043?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a dedicated professional to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide clinical leadership as part of a supportive, highly skilled service that provides compassionate, person-centred care to palliative patients and their families at a crucial time in their lives.

As a valued member of the team, you’ll play a vital role in delivering specialist palliative care within the community, providing clinical leadership to less experienced team members and working collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care. You’ll bring not only your clinical expertise and leadership but also warmth, empathy, and a commitment to making every contact count.

### Main duties of the job

Community specialist palliative care nurses work closely with the multidisciplinary team and with other specialist palliative care providers.

The post holder will manage a geographically defined caseload alongside a caseload of very complex patients to provide guidance and leadership to less experienced team members and will ensure that all patients referred with complex palliative needs receive high quality symptom assessment, psychological support and specialist advice to meet their individual care needs.

The post holder will use recognised referral guidelines to undertake agreed levels of intervention.

The post holder will demonstrate high levels of clinical decision-making with excellent communication and team working skills and will monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, research and by teaching and providing support to professional colleagues.

The post holder will participate in a rota providing a seven-day service.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Aptitude

**Essential**

- To be able to work autonomously and collaboratively within the team and with stakeholders
- To be able to review research and apply relevant evidence to practise

### Knowledge and abilities

**Essential**

- Knowledge and skill to evaluate research and ensure evidence based practice
- To have a working knowledge of relevant government initiative and the political agenda with relevance to Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life Care

### Education/Qualifications and Relevant Experience

**Essential**

- Current professional registration - NMC
- Professional qualification - RGN
- Degree level study in relevant subject
- Proven teaching skills
- Substantial relevant post registration experience
- Proven palliative/oncology experience with relevant qualification

**Desirable**

- Recordable teaching qualifications
- Independent nonmedical prescriber
- Counselling qualification
- Experience of working in primary care

## Documents

- [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977)
- [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833)
- [job description (pdf, 704.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10474367)
- [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834)
- [job functional requirements (pdf, 233.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10474366)
- [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976)

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