Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care

Main area Palliative and End of Life Care Grade NHS AfC : Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week to support a 7 day service) Job ref 326-7315744-RB

Employer Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site East Surrey Hospital Town Redhill Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum plus high cost allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 24 / 09 / 2025 23 : 59

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care

NHS AfC : Band 7

Job overview

This role supports delivery of 7 day specialist palliative care working at SASH. You will be required to work weekends to a rota.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical nurse specialist to join an established Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care team. This appointment will support the delivery of a 7-day visiting service at SASH.

The palliative care team provide advice and support to patients, carers and staff across the Trust on advanced, progressive disease management, pain and symptom control and end of life care. They liaise with our community colleagues and local hospice, and provide education and support to staff caring for palliative care patients throughout the Trust. As a CNS within a multi-professional team, you will be taking on the role of key worker, liaising with primary care providers and relevant outside agencies, in order to provide a co-ordinated and comprehensive service.

You should be confident and self-motivated, with excellent communication and influencing skills and, utilising the benefit of your clinical knowledge and experience, be able to act as a resource to all staff and other healthcare professionals, providing education as appropriate

You will be part of a well-established and expanding Cancer Nursing Service, which offers a friendly and supportive work environment, participation in clinical supervision and excellent opportunities for both formal and informal professional advancement.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England :

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person specification

Criteria

Additional information

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust operates a 24-hour service, 365 days a year. As such, all nursing, clinical, and operational roles may involve working on a 24 / 7 shift basis, unless otherwise specified during the recruitment process. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workforce and actively encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process.

Successful candidates will be appointed to the first pay step within the band when they start with the Trust (unless they have previous relevant NHS continuous service), thereafter individuals will progress up the pay steps in accordance with NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) terms and conditions. For part time roles you will receive a pro rata'd (proportional) salary payment based on the appropriate pay step / point and hours worked in accordance with AfC and all medical and dental terms and conditions.

Note : Some vacancies may receive a high volume of applications. In such cases, the vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We take our responsibilities to the environment extremely seriously and have an ambitious Green Plan that we’re delivering. Actions include having uniforms made from recycled plastic, 100% renewable electricity and planting 150 trees at East Surrey Hospital. Read our planhere .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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