Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area Community Specialist Palliative Care Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 18.75 hours per week Job ref 412-COMM-8305557
Site Infinity House Town Crewe
Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing 29/10/2026 23:59
Want to work somewhere you can really make a difference? Somewhere you’re encouraged to have ideas and empowered to create positive change?
Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) deliver NHS Community Services across Cheshire. With a wide range of clinical disciplines, we are a dynamic, future-facing organisation passionate about delivering the highest quality healthcare whilst collaborating with our community partners.
We foster a culture of continuous improvement, built on compassion.
- Over 83% of staff would recommend CCICP as a place to work
- 90% of staff say the people they work with show appreciation to each other
- 88% staff say that patient care/service users are the organisations top priority
- Over 70% of staff believe there are opportunities for them to develop their career
- If a friend or relative needed treatment 81% of staff are happy with the standard of care provided
We are recognised nationally
- With over 24 Queen’s Nurses (and growing) we have one of the highest percentages proportionate to the size of our team
- Nursing Times Award winners in 2023 and finalists in 2024 for a Bladder and Bowl project. Our specialist Stoma service is currently shortlisted for a Nursing Times and British Journal of Nursing awards.
- Two Specialist clinicians have recently had their work recognised by Wounds UK
- Leighton Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, run by CCICP, was reviewed by Care Quality Commission and awarded the highest score in the North West
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care team as a B7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS).
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and experienced nurse, with a passion for promoting excellence in end of life care.
The successful candidate will work alongside a team of nurses delivering highly specialist palliative care advice, support and monitoring to patients, their families and staff across the Central Cheshire community footprint.
You will work closely with our Palliative Care Medics, and as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team including District Nurses, AHPs, GPs and our local hospital and hospice teams.
This valuable role is equally rewarding and demanding, and we are committed to creating a supportive environment, where supervision, training and development opportunities are actively encouraged to meet the clinical needs of the job.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Contribute to the provision of a co-ordinated specialist palliative care service for patients, families and carers across CCICP.
Have responsibility for a shared caseload of patients with cancer and other life-limiting conditions, with specialist palliative care nursing needs, acting as a keyworker for a percentage of the caseload.
Provide holistic assessment of patients, formulate management plans, and implement care by providing specialist advice on complex pain and symptom management.
Act as a specialist resource for advice to other healthcare professionals across CCICP.Maintaining excellent working relationships with the wider MDT.
Participate in non-clinical aspects of the role including audit, education, and research.
Working for our organisation
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). Our services include planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care, child health, maternity, and intermediate care across Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
Through our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, we deliver extensive services in 26 medical centres and schools in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With 500 beds and around 5,500 staff, we are one of the area’s largest employers.
Since the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust has become a key partner in Cheshire East & Cheshire West and Chester and in two provider collaboratives, aligning our strategic goals with the Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care System.
As part of the national New Hospital Programme, we’re reimagining Leighton Hospital to create a new health and care neighbourhood, transforming healthcare delivery for a Healthier Future. Learn more on our Healthier Futures website .
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Lead in specialist area of practice, providing expert professional advice to others across the Trust within agreed guidelines and protocols, including generalist colleagues and other professional groups when required.
- Perform comprehensive specialist assessment of community patients, plan, treat and evaluate care within agreed guidelines and protocols according to evidence-based practice and changing health needs, including prescribing medication.
- Communicate complex specialist information to generalist colleagues and others. Refer patients to appropriate clinicians, in the Trust or externally, within agreed guidelines and protocols, according to assessment of patient need and evidence-based decision.
- Prioritise patient care, supervising and allocating ones’ own workload, monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of care, including discharge of patients, or referring on, within agreed guidelines and protocols.
- Perform specialist clinical skills in the treatment and overall management of patient care, including requesting and interpreting investigations, within agreed guidelines and protocols.
- Provide a comprehensive specialist service, accepting accountability and responsibility for the management and effectiveness of the community service on a day-to-day basis.
- Collect, collate, evaluate and report on information, including communicating detailed information to clinical colleagues and others, maintaining accurate patient records and documentation.
- Promote patient and public involvement in the improvement of services, and involve patients and carers/relative in the planning and delivery of their care.
- Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to patient flow, care pathways and discharge arrangements.
- Analyse and act on information to proactively manage and maintain NHS targets and standards.
Qualifications
- Adult nursing Degree or equivalent
- Masters level qualification or equivalent
- V300 Prescribing Qualification
- Clinical Diagnostics Qualification
- Advanced Communication Skills
- NMC Registration.
- Research Qualification
- Counselling Skills Training
- Full UK driving license and car for work purposes
Skills
- Ability to manage/lead junior colleagues
- Audit skills
- Proactive workload management and prioritisation skills
- Ability to cope under pressure, and deal with complex emotional situations
- Teaching and presentation skills
Experience
- Relevant post registration experience in palliative care
- Experience of multi professional working
- Evidence of CPD
- Relevant post registration experience of working in NHS services
- Relevant post registration experience of working in a community setting
We offer enviable benefits* which include:
- Recognition: monthly 'Because You Matter' awards, with an annual awards celebration. CCICP Star of the Month acknowledgements
- Flexible working, tailored to the service, role and individual
- Training and development opportunities
- Mentoring and coaching
- Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays. Increasing with length of service. Option to buy / sell annual leave.
- Fast track physiotherapy access
- Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption leave pay
- Sick pay
- Access to free counselling service 24/7
- Carers leave
- Free Flu and Covid Vaccinations
- Discounted complimentary therapies
- Access to hundreds of staff discounts nationally and locally
- Cycle to work scheme
- Long service awards for all NHS service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Lindsay Copppenhall
Job title Specialist Palliative Care Team Leader
Email address lindsay.coppenhall@mcht.nhs.uk
Telephone number 01270 278440
Please reach out if you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal visit to the team.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
Telephone jennifer.burkquest@mcht.nhs.uk
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