# Clinical Nurse Specialist (9 month maternity cover)

**Company**: Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
**Location**: Watford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £47810.00 to £54710.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Palliative Rapid Response Team. You will provide specialist palliative care to people with complex needs and those close to them.

**Job Summary:**

- 37.5 hours per week, 7.5hr shifts Monday to Friday with occasional shift and weekend cover

- Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (pro rata)

- Closing date: 30 November 2026

- Interview date: 08 December 2026

**Main Duties:**

- Provide specialist palliative care to people with complex needs and those close to them

- Manage a small caseload of unstable patients within SWH and be a clinical leader for the service team

- Exercise significant freedom to act, assessing and managing uncertainty across multiple conditions

- Make decisions within broad professional guidelines rather than fixed protocols

- Act as the person colleagues escalate to

**Responsibilities:**

- Hold and manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs in the Palliative rapid response team (PRT)

- Carry out advanced holistic assessment, using advanced clinical reasoning to interpret complex, uncertain and competing information

- Prescribe as a non-medical prescriber within RGP policy, and support colleagues' safe medicines management

- Provide highly specialist advice on palliative and end of life care to GPs, district nurses, care homes, hospital teams and RGP colleagues

- Deliver hands-on care when it is right for the patient

- Keep and oversee accurate records, and set the documentation standard for the team

- Exercise significant freedom to act within professional guidelines

- Lead the service day to day: allocate and prioritise PRT referrals and visits, oversee the work of the team including bank colleagues, and keep the service safe across the rota

- Line-manage the posts named in the role summary

- Resolve concerns where possible, contribute to formal complaint responses and investigations

- Contribute to service reviews, rota planning and resource management with the BOPM, and deputise clinically when asked

**Person Specification:**

- Registered Nurse (NMC) with current registration

- Degree in a relevant subject, plus palliative care study aligned to the NHSE Qualification in Specialism Standard, or equivalent experience with an agreed plan to complete

- Non-medical prescribing qualification, or completion within two years, funded by RGP with a named practice assessor

- Experience of supervising, mentoring or line-managing colleagues

- Evidence of leading audit, improvement or change in practice

- Advanced clinical reasoning: assesses and interprets complex, uncertain and competing information and makes defensible decisions under pressure

- Specialist symptom management knowledge across palliative and end of life care

- Teaches effectively in clinical settings, formally and at the bedside

- Plans and prioritises a service day: allocation, escalation and rota cover across a seven-day service

- Confident use of an electronic patient record and Microsoft 365

- Recognises the limits of their own competence and escalates appropriately

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## Skills

### Required
- advanced clinical reasoning
- specialist symptom management
- non-medical prescribing
- electronic patient record
- Microsoft 365

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