Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist

Overview

ASSOCIATE CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST (Palliative Care)

Location: Sydenham and Bromley

Department: Community Palliative Care Team (includes all our services)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Sunday on a rota basis) - would consider part time

Salary: £42,939-£50,697 per annum (inclusive of HCA)

Closing date: 17 September 2025

Your role

Your role will be so important in supporting people who are entering the last phase of their lives to talk about what is important to them and helping them to navigate how their wishes and goals can be achieved. You will also support families and friends as well as providing expert care that will support a dignified death. You will offer the people we support your skills in symptom control, social, emotional and spiritual care, in addition to providing advice, support and education to the primary health care team and hospital staff where appropriate, as part of an interdisciplinary team.

To succeed in this role

You will need to be a compassionate and resilient person. You will need to demonstrate relevant experience at band 5 (equivalent), and an awareness of this work as an Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist, and a keenness to develop in this area of health care. We require you to possess excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to work efficiently in a disciplinary team and manage stressful situations.

Benefits of joining St Christopher's

• You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community
• Access to excellent training and development opportunities including masters level education and non-medical prescribing
• A number of health and wellbeing schemes
• A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan
• Access to plenty of free local street parking.

How to apply

Please have a look at our website for further information on all aspects of St Christopher's at and to apply for this position, please click the 'Apply Online' button below.

Closing Date: 17 September 2025

Provisional interview date: TBC

For any queries, please contact our recruitment line on

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• Offer an interview to disabled people
• Anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as required
• Support any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• At least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

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