Clinical Nurse Specialist - Development Role

Clinical Nurse Specialist – Development Role

JOB TITLE: Clinical Nurse Specialist – Development Role

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

DEPARTMENT: Community

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week, working over seven days, four shifts per week three 9.5 hour shifts and one 9 hour shift

SALARY: £35,942 – £44,240 per annum for 37.5 hours per week (Grade CA4a-c depending on experience)rising to CA5 upon

successfulcompletion of development competencies

CLOSING DATE: 1 July 2025

INTERVIEW DATE:22 July 2025

Are you passionate about palliative care nursing? This is an e xciting opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills required to become a C ommunity C linical Nurse Specialist in PEOLC . You will join our talented team, w orking alongside specialists in P alliative C are, to help make a positive difference in the Community.

Working as part of a supportive and integrated clinical team,covering East Surrey and West Sussex, you will make a difference to local patients and their families by offering expert advice and care seven days a week including face to face scheduled visits and telephone support with occasional out of hours visits. Working alongside primary care network colleagues you will deliver specialist palliative care to people at the end of life, you\’ll have shared clinical responsibility for patients referred to the hospice, supported by our community manager and the medical team.

You\’ll have the passion to always improve and advance and be happy to participate in a rota system with your team colleagues to provide 7 days a week cover. This makes sure there is always someone available on our telephone line to support our patients and their families. You\’ll also contribute to a positive working environment with an emphasis on teamwork and cooperation.

You will complete a development programme attaining the required levels of knowledge and competence to work as an autonomous Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Community team.

This post is offered on a full time basis, working 37.5 hours per week, worked on a shift basis over 7 days. You will participate in a rota system providing a 7 day per week cover including Bank Holidays, for our patients and their families, via telephone advice and support, but may include visiting out of hours in exceptional circumstances. This includes working four shifts per week, three 9.5 hour shifts and one 9 hour shift.

Please note, the successful candidate will be an essential car user, therefore candidates must have a full driving licence and be willing to use their own vehicle for business use.

When you join St Catherine\’s, you\’ll be joining a supportive team all working towards abig ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something you\’d find fulfilling, please apply today.

Employees at St Catherine\’s Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
• Day off for volunteering
• Day off for moving house
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Generous Pension – Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
• Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
• Life Assurance – 4x basic salary
• Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
• Counselling Offering
• Discounted Gym
• Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
• Free parking
• Career pathway and progression

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We are located in Grace Holland Avenue, Pease Pottage, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 9SL.

If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.

Please upload either your CV or the St Catherine\’s Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your application form, there is no need to complete both.

If you don\’t have a CV and would like to complete our application for, this can be found here.

If you require any additional information or would like to discuss this role further, please give us a call on .

Clinical Nurse Specialist – Development Role

Experience

Experience of working as a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and evidence of recent CPD