Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse

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The closing date is 16 October 2026

County Durham and DarlingtonNHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest integrated care providers in England, serving a population of around 600,000 people. We are a high performing organisation with a track record of success and have been rated as Outstanding by the CQC for our Palliative and End of Life Care. This substantive permanent Band 7 post offers an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced Registered Nurse to work within the Specialist Palliative Care in the Community setting.

The post covers corehours of 09:00-17:00 and works across a seven day period, weekends and bank holidays are rostered across the team as per CDDFT policy. Core hours are
09:00-17:00.

The successful candidate will provide a consistent high quality specialist palliative care service for patients and families. With significant post registration experience including recent experience in palliative care.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Specialist Palliative Care Community team the post holder will need to be able to:

Demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skillsand will need to be committed to developing practice.

Working collaboratively as part of a team and building effective relationships with the role colleagues, you must also be able to workon your own initiative.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients andcarers.

Provide specialist advice.

Provides day to day supervision and/or clinical supervision to others

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Description s can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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The role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Specailist Palliative Care team requires a suitably qualified and experienced registered nurseto be able to utilise their extensive knowledge of palliative care and complex symptom management to offer high quality patient centred care, whilst supporting their peers and colleagues. Be able to have a positive impact oncare and confidently deal with difficult and complex situations with sensitivity and compassion.

Be confident and influence change. Offer support and supervision to Band 6 Palliative Care Nurses in the team.

• Experience working as a Nurse
• Relevant post registration experience, in cancer, palliative care or relevant specialty
• Experience of multi professional working
• Leadership and management experience
• Experience of teaching
• Demonstrates proactive approach to palliative and end of life care
• Previous experience of working as a clinical nurse specialist
• Experience of audit and research Understanding of Macmillan Cancer Support and its role across the UK

• Able to travel across Trust sites to meet the requirements of the post
• Well presented application
• Assertive and confident yet approachable and supportive manner
• Professionally credible
• Flexibility in approach to work and in range of duties/ hours of work
• Demonstrates initiative and enthusiasm
• Diplomatic
• Calm and objective
• Self Motivated
• Recognition of own limitations
• Driving posts musty have valid Full UK driving licence

• Highly developed knowledge of Palliative Care Pain and Symptom control management
• First level degree in related subject
• Post-basic qualification in cancer/palliative care or relevant subject
• Sound knowledge of…