Outpatients Clinical Specialist Nurse

The Vacancy Outpatients Clinical Nurse Specialist

• Hours: 22.5 per week
• Location: Peace Hospice (Watford) / Grove House (St Albans)
• Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 7 - £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (pro rata)
• Closing date: 14 September 2026 at 12 noon
• Interview date: 27 September 2026

The purpose of the role is to provide high quality specialist palliative nursing care, skills, advice and support to patients, carers and those important to the patient. This role will support the delivery of planned care across Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.

• Actively participate in the development of the organisations planned model of care.
• Demonstrate specialist skills and expertise in palliative care and offer advice, support and education to the primary health care team as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Manage specialist planned care to a palliative nursing caseload whilst delivering high standards of personalised care.
• Engage in the full range of activities consistent with the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist including Nurse-Led Clinic, Assessment Clinic, Palliative Care Referral Centre (PCRC) triage, community and Living Well services as required.
• Improve patient outcomes and experience by providing physical and emotional support to patients and carers via coordinated care and informing and advising them on clinical and practical issues associated with their illness.
• Participate in activities such as audits and case reviews in order to improve the service.
• Act as a Rennie Grove and Peace Hospice Care ambassador within the community, actively demonstrating our values and positively promoting the specialist care we provide.
• As required, work across Rennie Grove and Peace Hospice Care sites (Watford and St Albans), or externally as required, to support safe and effective service delivery.

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting
• Full, current valid UK driving licence.
• Access to a vehicle which can be used for work purposes.
• Car insurance, including business cover
• Disclosure and Barring Services Check:
  Enhanced Adult and Child Workforce with Adult and Child Barring Lists
• Professional registration (e.g. NMC)
• A good level of IT literacy is required, including confidence in using Microsoft Office applications, email, and other digital systems relevant to the role

For an informal chat about this role contact Lisa Jackson, Assistant Director - Patient Services Centre Base Department on (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.

If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement…