Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 26 January 2026

We are offering an exciting opportunity for two experienced registered nurses to join our established and evolving specialist palliative care team. The posts available are full and part‑time (37.5 hrs and 30 hrs / week). The service provides specialist interventions for patients with complex palliative care needs within the acute hospital setting, working in collaboration with the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team. The service runs across 7‑days per week, including Bank Holidays, covering two Acute Hospital sites, providing care across Kirklees and Calderdale.

There will be an opportunity for professional development, especially in key areas, including Advanced Communication Skills, Advance Care Planning, Symptom management and end‑of‑life care.

The specialist palliative care support nurse will be a key team member in the delivery of specialist palliative nursing services to enable and support timely and effective care and assessment and intervention for patients with specialist palliative care needs in all settings.

They will, as part of the specialist palliative care service, support the specialist nursing service undertaking the assessment and triage of patients, ensuring patients and carers receive high quality care, support and advice.

The post holder will provide advice and support to other members of the multi‑professional teams involved in the care of patients with specialist palliative care needs.

To work within the multi‑professional team to manage the caseload of patients presenting with specialist palliative care needs.

To undertake an effective nursing assessment and intervention service within CHFT.

The post holder will work flexibly across Acute Hospital and Community settings, supporting the service according to service demand.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, as well as in community sites, health centres and patients' homes. We also have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care, medical, surgical, maternity, gynaecology, critical care, children’s and young people’s services, end‑of‑life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS‑yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

• Provide specialist palliative care advice to clinical teams.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs.
• Demonstrate specialist skills and knowledge.
• Use advanced communication skills to impart information, advice and support at all levels.
• Provide timely holistic assessment of physical, social, emotional, psychological needs of patients at presentation and other points of contact as appropriate, ensuring early initiation of investigation, referral or management.
• Work with clinical teams to facilitate individualised patient care based on principles of evidence‑based practice.
• Involve patients, their families and carers in the planning and delivery of their care.
• Monitor investigation results, initiating further assessment/review of treatment pathway as required.
• Liaise with all service areas to ensure timely review/treatment of patients…