Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) / Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS)

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Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) / Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS)

Department: Care Directorate Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 (inclusive of HCA FTE) 22.5 hours per week - £31,129-£35,126 Type: Fixed Term - Part Time Hours: 22.5 hours per week, Maternity Cover fixed term or secondment opportunity. Location: Orpington Closing date: 29 May 2025

Community Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) / Clinical Paramedic Specialist (CPS)

Location:Bromley but may require working from the Sydenham site

Hours: Part Time 22.5 hours per week Maternity Cover fixed term or secondment opportunity.

Salary: £31,129-£35,126 (inclusive of HCA, 22.5 hours per week)

Please note, salary will be determined on service and experience within the role

Are you an experienced community palliative care nurse, or paramedic, looking for an exciting opportunity to join a new initiative within the Team hosted within the St Christopher's Community Palliative Care Team?

Are you interested in being part of a dynamic team that provides the best possible palliative care for people living in South East London? A team that responds rapidly, is holistic, reflexive, responsive and uses all your clinical skills to provide high quality palliative care through direct care, or through supporting other clinicians using teaching, education and advancing practice

The Bromley Service is a dynamic, collaborative and integrated model of care that intends to deliver a range of interventions, including remote monitoring in the community. It aims to help patients avoid hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and to remain at home through the use of short-term support and intervention. St Christopher's is part of this new service (The Palliative Team), and is looking to recruit a CNS/CPS to cover maternity leave within the team

What will you be doing? You will work across organisations to support people to remain in their own homes rather than attending hospital or facilitating a rapid discharge home from hospital when appropriate using the model as a basis for care provision. The Palliative Pathway in this innovative service, supports people identified as reaching the end of their life. You will be an integral part of the Bromley Team and St Christopher's Community Palliative Care Team. You will also work closely with The PRUH Acute Frailty Unit, St Christopher's In Reach Nurse and PRUH Inpatient Palliative Care Team.

St Christopher's prides itself on creating an environment of committed and supportive multi-professionals who deliver empowering, compassionate care and support, through making meaningful connections with the people we care for and their families.

St Christopher's has services spanning the London boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and are connected to partner health and social care organisations in all the boroughs we support. St Christopher's CARE, provides learning and development to the communities we support, and we have academic links with a number of universities, nationally and internationally

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 dependent on role
• A number of health and wellbeing schemes
• A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan

For an informal discussion about the role, please contactFiona Hodson - Nurse Consultant on

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: 29th May 2025

Provisional Interview Date: 2 June

In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.

For any queries, please contact our recruitment line on