Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist-Macmillan Community Palliative Care

Job summary
Two Vacancies 1 x 22.5hrs and 1 x 30 hrs

The Solihull Macmillan Community Specialist Palliative Care Team works closely with the wider MDT based at the Marie Curie Hospice, giving the team access to specialist medical advice, Hospice at Home and other hospice services. It is a supportive, well-connected service with a strong focus on helping patients remain at home where possible and ensuring they receive the right level of palliative care at the right time.

We are looking for an experienced Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) who can provide visible, compassionate leadership while remaining clinically credible and involved in patient care. You will lead and support the CNS team, manage a small clinical caseload to keep your clinical skills current, and work closely with GPs, district nurses, hospice colleagues and wider community services.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to help shape the future of community palliative care in Solihull. The role includes developing pathways, strengthening education and support for generalist teams, and ensuring specialist skills remain focused where they add most value, including complex symptoms, rapid deterioration, difficult decision-making and significant patient or family distress.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide expert, autonomous specialist palliative care to patients with complex needs in their own homes and community settings. This will include holistic assessment, complex symptom management advice, advance care planning, supporting patients and families through uncertainty and deterioration, and coordinating care across the multidisciplinary team.

Alongside a small clinical caseload, they will provide day-to-day leadership for the Community Palliative Care CNS team. They will support staff with complex cases, triage and prioritise referrals, oversee workload and staffing, keep communication clear across the team and wider MDT, and contribute to appraisal, supervision and staff development.

They will lead and support service improvement, including reviewing referral pathways, developing standards and guidance, learning from incidents and feedback, and contributing to audit, quality improvement and evidence-based practice. They will also provide formal and informal education to colleagues across community services, helping generalist teams recognise palliative needs, plan ahead and know when specialist support is required.

We are looking for someone calm, approachable and clinically experienced, who can manage competing priorities, make sound decisions and lead change without losing sight of patients, families or the team.

About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Details
Date posted: 07 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £565,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 304-9017925
Job locations: Solihull Community Nursing, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4BN, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register (Field dependent upon role)
• Evidence of post registration CPD/Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 /7
• Recognised mentorship course

Desirable

• To have or working towards a MSc/ Masters qualification
• To have or working towards advanced health assessment module -- where applicable to the role
• Non -- Medical Prescriber/ willingness to undertake - where applicable to the role

Experience
Essential

• Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
• Significant years post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/competence.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
• Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
• Experience of patient service user advocacy role
• Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess,plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff
• Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
• Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
• Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

Desirable

• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
• Experience in service development Awareness of current research related to the speciality
• Awareness of current research related to the speciality

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Solihull Community Nursing, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4BN, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager
Juliet Read
Juliet.Read@uhb.nhs.uk
07917265689