Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care

Are you looking to develop your career within Specialist Palliative Care? This could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We are recruiting an experienced palliative care nurse to join the Community Specialist Palliative Care Service. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop their career within an innovative, collaborative, and experienced multi-professional team.

The Service is committed to excellent symptom management and high quality emotional support, enabling patients to be cared for according to their preferences. The team works closely with colleagues across primary, secondary, and social care, as well as the local hospice provider.

The role involves developing advanced skills in the assessment and management of palliative patients, working towards autonomous clinical practice. This includes contributing to diagnosis, treatment planning, and supportive care, as well as communicating complex and distressing information. The post holder will work closely with a wide multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated, high quality care that supports patients and families to achieve the best possible quality of life., At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

The Specialist Nurse provides specialist palliative nursing care for a defined patient and carer population, practicing as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. The post holder delivers care across agreed clinical settings and professional boundaries, working collaboratively with statutory, voluntary and hospice providers to support seamless, patient-centred care.

The role encompasses enhanced clinical assessment and decision-making, leadership in care coordination, contribution to education and practice development, and engagement with service evaluation and research. The post holder is accountable for delivering high quality, evidence based palliative care and works towards increased autonomy and advanced clinical competence within their scope of practice, seeking supervision and support as required.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence