Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, SE1 9RTView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£58,133 to £65,261
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
5 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
Band 7 - Clinical Nurse Specialist- Palliative and End of Life Care 0.9 WTE (substantive) - 33.75hours a week. 7 day working pattern including weekend...
The successful post holder will lead and support the delivery of excellent personalised care to patients and families across inpatient services and the Boroughs of Lambeth & Southwark, in their own homes and care homes.
You will provide specialist advice on pain and other physical symptoms as well as psychological, emotional, social and spiritual concerns. Our team includes nursing, pharmacy, medical, social work, and psychology colleagues.
Our Band 7 nurses participate in developing our Band 6 nurses within the team with support from our Matrons, Consultant Nurse & Deputy Head of Nursing.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We are a member of the Palliative Care Clinical Academic Group, providing unique access to world leading researchers in the field. You will have the opportunity to develop your teaching skills through delivering training across the wider Trust. We support our staff wellbeing through clinical supervision as well as multiple team and Trust wide initiatives.
Qualifications / education
Essential
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience
- Leadership course
- Mentorship course
Desirable: - To have or be working towards a Master's degree; - To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Previous Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
- Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
Essential
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
- Evidence of teaching skills
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, communication skills
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills
- Time management and organisation skills
- Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
- Demonstrate an understanding of the National agenda & quality standards for specialty
- IT & presentation Skills
Desirable: - Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings; - Undertaken clinical & nursing research
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First seen
25 September 2026
Last checked
29 September 2026
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