Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

The closing date is 28 January 2026

Band 6 Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse - South Team (Base Location Whittnash Lodge)

37.5 hours weekly.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated nurse with a passion for palliative care. Have you undertaken recent study to support your knowledge and skills in this area? Working autonomously and collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary team? Then we are looking for you.

You will demonstrate excellent communication skills in supporting patients and their families and must be committed to providing high quality compassionate care.

A commitment to teaching and education is equally important.

Palliative or end of life care experience is essential. In return, we offer a supportive and friendly environment and access to training and continuous professional development to enhance this role.

There will be an opportunity for the successful candidate to undertake the European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care.

To provide a specialist palliative care nursing service across Warwickshire. This includes providing specialist advice, education and training, leadership and change management in pursuit of excellent palliative care.

The post holder will be responsible for actively managing a clinical caseload of patients requiring specialist palliative care.

A key component of this post will be to work collaboratively with others and providing leadership, education, and training in specialist Palliative care to enable the wider workforce to improve their skills. The post holder will work in collaboration with the locality team to deliver the specialist palliative care element of the SWFTs Business plan.

There is requirement to work clinically across Warwickshire in order to meet the needs of the service.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on‑Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are "Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care".

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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• Supports the delivery of specialist palliative care across Warwickshire
• Manages a specialist clinical case load (under the supervision of a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist)
• Participates in the development and provision of specialist palliative care education and training within local trust and actively participates in these functions across Warwickshire
• Participates in local audits, research projects, as requested by Lead Nurse
• Works across boundaries using creative reasoning and problem solving
• Supports and manages change within a complex environment including across organisational boundaries in the pursuit of excellent palliative and end of life care
• Influences the development of others through education and training
• Utilises patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change
• Assesses; analyzes and interprets specialist needs of patients and carers in order to compare varied options for treatment, care/support
• Provides specialised palliative care advice to patients, carers, and…