Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist-Macmillan Community Palliative CareNHS

Job summary

1 x 22.5hrs

The Solihull Macmillan Community Specialist Palliative Care Team works closely with the wider MDT based at the Marie Curie Hospice, giving the team access to specialist medical advice, Hospice at Home and other hospice services. It is a supportive, well-connected service with a strong focus on helping patients remain at home where possible and ensuring they receive the right level of palliative care at the right time.

We are looking for an experienced Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) who can provide visible, compassionate leadership while remaining clinically credible and involved in patient care. You will lead and support the CNS team, manage a small clinical caseload to keep your clinical skills current, and work closely with GPs, district nurses, hospice colleagues and wider community services.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to help shape the future of community palliative care in Solihull. The role includes developing pathways, strengthening education and support for generalist teams, and ensuring specialist skills remain focused where they add most value, including complex symptoms, rapid deterioration, difficult decision-making and significant patient or family distress.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide expert, autonomous specialist palliative care to patients with complex needs in their own homes and community settings. This will include holistic assessment, complex symptom management advice, advance care planning, supporting patients and families through uncertainty and deterioration, and coordinating care across the multidisciplinary team.

Alongside a small clinical caseload, they will provide day-to-day leadership for the Community Palliative Care CNS team. They will support staff with complex cases, triage and prioritise referrals, oversee workload and staffing, keep communication clear across the team and wider MDT, and contribute to appraisal, supervision and staff development.

They will lead and support service improvement, including reviewing referral pathways, developing standards and guidance, learning from incidents and feedback, and contributing to audit, quality improvement and evidence-based practice. They will also provide formal and informal education to colleagues across community services, helping generalist teams recognise palliative needs, plan ahead and know when specialist support is required.

We are looking for someone calm, approachable and clinically experienced, who can manage competing priorities, make sound decisions and lead change without losing sight of patients, families or the team.

Job description

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About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.