Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative Care

Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Palliative Care NHS AfC:
Band 7

Main area Specialist Clinical Nurse Specilist in Palliative Care Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Band
7) Job  

Site Lister Hospital Town STEVENAGE Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/08/2026 23:59 Interview date 18/08/2026

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Palliative Care who share s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Join our Acute Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team-enhance your assessment skills and provide a continuing supportive service within the Lister Hospital as part of the East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

You will participate in 7 day working, facilitate optimum health care to those diagnosed with cancer and other incurable long term health conditions and those requiring palliative & end of life care, supporting both family and friends.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include , Respect , and Improve . We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

• To work with Macmillan teams and Clinical Nurse Specialists in East and North Hertfordshire.
• Liaise with Garden House Hospice, Letchworth, Isabel Hospice, Welwyn and any other hospice teams.
• Ward sisters
• Consultants in Palliative Care
• Consultants (Surgeons and Physicians)
• Consultant Oncologists and Radiotherapists
• The multi-disciplinary team.

The Primary Health Care Team Cancer Site Specific Clinical Nurse Specialists Macmillan Lecturer Practitioners in Palliative Care, Dementia Admiral Nurse, Frailty Clinical Nurse Specialist Lead Nurse.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Registered nurse education to Degree level or willingness to…