Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care

Main area Specialist Palliative Care Grade Band 6 Contract 9 months (Fixed term with end date mid June 2027) Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (This is a 30 hour post worked over 4 days covering a Monday to Friday Service. Working days can be negotiated at interview.) Job
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Site Chester Central Community Care Team Town Chester Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 23:59

We are looking for a well‑motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist for Palliative Care with excellent communication, organisation and leadership skills. This is a maternity cover post running until June 2027.

We would welcome applications from internal and external applicants.

If you are applying as an internal applicant please seek approval from your line manager before applying to ensure a secondment opportunity can be supported by your current team.

Do you have experience of working in the community, supporting for people in their own homes? Do you have experience in Palliative Care and are interested in working in the community?

Cheshire Wirral Partnership NHS Trust are looking to appoint a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Palliative Care to work alongside community colleagues within the Neighbourhood Community Care Team based in the Fountains Health Centre, Chester.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Palliative Care, you will be supported by fellow specialist practitioners including other Nurse Specialists, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapists and a Therapy Assistant. You will also clinically work closely with the support of the Palliative Care Consultants.

The successful candidate will receive a full supportive induction when they join. You will work closely with both your neighbourhood team, Specialist Palliative Colleagues and wider Multi‑disciplinary colleagues based at the Hospice and beyond

This role is part time, 30 hours per week.

The post holder will provide holistic care and support to patients with complex palliative care needs with malignant or non‑malignant life limiting conditions, working autonomously and as part of a team. They will deliver care to patients registered with a West Cheshire GP in their own home. The post holder will provide advice, education and support to patients, their carers and other health care professionals.

They will also promote advanced care planning, management of complex end of life symptoms and patient and carer expectations whilst meeting the holistic care needs of the patient.

Over recent years there has been a lot development within the service and the successful candidate will need to share the teams drive to take the service forward. You also need to be passionate about delivering quality care to people receiving palliative or end of life care.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all‑age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person‑centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making…