Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 05 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £48,751.00 to £54,661.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £48751.00 - £54661.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2026 |
| Location: | Worthing, BN12 6NZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0265-26-0012 |
Summary
Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place. Support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence-based and reflects current best practice. Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting. Act as a specialist resource across the whole system using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care. Joint management of the team. Participate in a 7-day rota. Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place. Support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence-based and reflects current best practice. Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting. Act as a specialist resource across the whole system using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care. Joint management of the team. Participate in a 7-day rota. Lead, engage and empower other staff and provide a range or formal and informal learning opportunities Support the development of team members through induction, appraisals and identification of appropriate training Deliver agreed targets, plan and hold regular meetings to inform, update and to promote coaching and team development Carry out audits on all areas to maintain standards, which include spot checks in areas of work and embed changes for own work and others Utilise Information Technology and ensure guidelines are followed when sharing information. Maintain a high professional standard in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Conduct If registered as a non-medical independent prescriber, prescribe in accordance with National, NMC and Martlets guidelines and within the limits of their individual competence. Nonmedical prescribers will attend Martlets Nurse Independent Prescribers meetings and maintain regular clinical supervision with their allocated NIP mentor. Attend and be a key member of the Martlets Quality and Safety Forum and other relevant meetings. Access managerial support and supervision. Work in accordance with Martlets policies, procedures and values. Contribute to a range of policy developments, governance and service improvements. Work flexibly, contributing to improved ways of working and the development of the service. Manage longer term initiatives and improvement projects, as required. Engage technology and optimise ways of working to improve efficiency. Actively contribute to team and individual development, embracing opportunities to review the service and build team resilience and capability. Ensure positive representation in all interactions, working in partnership with other providers to foster culture of lessons learnt from adverse events and enhances role Martlets can play to benefit patient safety and patient user experience. Promote a culture which respects and values diversity and supports patients, visitors and staff in exercising their rights and recognising needs of diverse patient groups. Ensure care within practice is consistent with the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Identify and report patterns of discrimination which undermine the quality and diversity in accordance with organisational policies and current legislation.