Community Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £43,300.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43300.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Location: | Newport, EX32 0HU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0021-26-0002 |
Summary
Working with the community team, to help deliver flexible, responsive, patient-led, outstanding care to people in their own homes. Liaise with GPs and surgeries to provide best patient led care jointly. Carrying a clinical caseload and use expertise to guide and support others in the management of complex palliative care needs. Contributing to the governance and monitoring of our services through compliance with and involvement in the regular delivery of audit. Directly managing your own caseload, assessing complex, specialist palliative care needs, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care and evaluating effectiveness, impact and outcomes with the patient, those close to them and other key colleagues involved in the patients care. Promoting an environment and culture where patient led, individualised care is central to our way of working. Work with the team to develop skills of enquiry in order that we always look for ways to develop and improve services to achieve the best outcomes. Promoting and facilitating effective multidisciplinary working within the hospice and with colleagues in primary and secondary care to ensure patients receive coordinated and seamless care. Working with the team to define and agree standards of nursing care and practice to ensure our care is always safe. Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous records of care in line with policy and legal requirements. Ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times. Supporting the team to understand their role in Safeguarding including recognising issues, reporting concerns and being involved in investigations. Supporting staff to report concerns, incidents, learning points, issues for awareness and safeguarding concerns. Develop action and learning points and investigate where required. Acting always to promote and facilitate patients and their families to receive outstanding care and to listen to their feedback. As a CNS, you will be involved in the facilitation of learning and development and support the education lead. Providing mentorship and supervision to designated staff as required. Your own continued professional development and ensure you are updated on current research, clinical practice and professional matters. Ensuring that you follow good infection control practice at all times and that you are familiar with infection control policies, procedures, and guidance relevant to your area of work. Understanding your role in the safeguarding of adults and children by being able to identify risks, and recognise signs of harm, abuse or neglect including how to report concerns and take immediate action to protect a person at risk of harm or abuse.