Community Clinical Nurse Specialist (Bank)
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Lewes, BN8 4ED |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B0360-25-0017 |
Summary
Provide advanced level palliative nursing interventions working closely with medical and other colleagues, both internally and externally, ensuring a coordinated and effective service in the community setting. Advise and support colleagues within and external to St Peter and St James Hospice, on issues including advanced symptom control, ethical issues and highly complex nursing interventions. This includes providing the weekend service. Provide leadership, innovation and excellence in clinical practice to support the patients under their care. Undertake holistic assessments, plan, implement and evaluate palliative interventions and support delivered to the patient and those important to them. Participate in the daily triaging of hospice referrals, in managing the team caseload and prioritising daily team workload. Mentor and support RNs and HCAs within the Community team. Offer specialist advice to external partners, i.e. GPs, district nurses, nursing homes, adult social care, continuing health care, and foster close collaborative working relationships. Utilise advanced communication skills to address complex psycho-social problems. Be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practise at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability within the policies of St Peter and St James Hospice. Participate in clinical supervision and be a member of at least one hospice group, and contribute actively to the clinical strategy. Collate workload data and evaluate the effectiveness and benefits of the role, which will then inform ongoing strategic planning and analysis of need. Effectively identify nursing practice development priorities within the clinical setting and participate in practice development projects with the speciality. Participate in hospice audits as required. Provide education and training in aspects of palliative care to employees within St Peter and St James Hospice and external healthcare professionals, e.g. local care homes, Community Nursing teams; including the Sussex Hospices Project ECHO work. Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national policy on palliative care and end of life care. Comply fully with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct, Performance and Ethics (2008) to protect public and patient safety and requirements for NMC Revalidation. Maintain contemporaneous, accurate records, ensuring that all entries on SystmOne and related documentation are entered frequently to agreed hospice standards.