Access and Community Nurse Specialist (Band 6)

We have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Palliative Nurse Specialists to join the Community Nursing Service and rotate between the Access and Community Nurse Specialist Teams.

We are a supportive and dynamic team delivering outstanding palliative care to people in our community. You will need knowledge and experience of palliative care, confident decision-making skills and a passion to continuously improve and develop. This role is primarily advisory, with minimal hands-on nursing care.

The Access Team manage the clinical Telephone Advice Line between 08:00 and 20:00 Monday to Sunday in addition to triaging all urgent external referrals to the hospice. The team are currently trialling a mix of long and short shifts over 7 days.

The Community Nurse Specialist Team support a complex patient caseload of 400-450 patients, triaging all routine external referrals to the hospice. The team work 7.5 hr days Monday to Friday with a regular commitment to the weekend/ bank holiday rota.

We can offer either full or part time hours (37.5 or 30 hours per week)

Working as a Palliative Nurse Specialist within the Community Nursing Services requires a core skill set

• Holistic assessment – face to face and by phone
• Problem solving, decision making, symptom control and prescribing advice
• Independent prescribing
• Advance care planning and completion of Respect plus    
• Joint working / liaison referral / signposting with internal and external MDT
• Initial bereavement support

You will be given excellent support to develop your nursing skills into a specialist role. There are opportunities for professional development and specialist training in palliative care, including Independent Prescribing.

Interview Date: 25th July 2025

Please note the jobholder will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Check. 

We will also require vaccination history or evidence of immunity.

Strictly no agencies.

About Us

We’ve spent over 40 years helping people die in peace, and with dignity. Combining compassion with clinical expertise, we provide patients with the best possible care at the end of their lives.

We’re here for the people around our patients too – those closest to them. Before, during and after a bereavement, we provide support that’s remembered forever.

We think it’s that unforgettable support that inspires people to give back to St Peter’s. To fundraise for us. Donate. Volunteer. We’re not exaggerating when we say that we couldn’t do what we do without our wonderful supporters. We really can’t thank them enough.  

We want to help many more people to die well. And we’re doing this by teaching others. As a centre of educational excellence, we share our skills with other health professionals, helping the NHS and care homes to provide better end-of-life care. 

We’re here for all, for free, forever.

The Benefits

If you join our clinical team, we offer NHS Agenda for Change benefits such as: 

• NHS equivalent salaries
• Generous holiday entitlement and recognition for previous NHS service (up to 33 days for 10 years' service)
• Continuation in the NHS pension scheme for existing members
• Recognition of previous NHS service for sick pay