Clinical Nurse Specialist SOW WWV

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for two End of Life Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) to join a pioneering collaboration between Pier Health Group (PHG) GP practices called One Weston Integrated Care Home Hub (“The Hub”), University Hospitals Bristol and Weston (UHBW), and Marie Curie. 

This innovative partnership aims to enhance and transform palliative and end-of-life (PEOL) care across the Weston, Worle and Villages (WWV) locality, delivering proactive, coordinated, and high-quality support to care homes and the wider community. 

The roles will play a pivotal part in strengthening neighbourhood-based care for people approaching the end of life. Successful candidates will support earlier identification of individuals who may benefit from palliative and end-of-life care, enable timely and sensitive advance care planning conversations, and help ensure compassionate, person-centred care is consistently delivered in line with what matters most to each person and those important to them. These roles will have an increased focus on those living with severe frailty and dementia, and multimorbidity.

Hours: Monday to Friday, shifts TBC.

Contract: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) and Part-time (26.25 hours per week)

Salary: Band 6 £39,959 - £48,117 per annum (in line with NHS Agenda for Change (AFC) + enhancements and Marie Curie employee benefits package

Location: Care home hub and the community

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide proactive, relationship-based clinical support to care homes across the WWV locality.  

• Support care home staff and residents to identify individuals approaching palliative and end-of-life, using validated clinical tools.

• Facilitate and support Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations with residents, families, and care home staff, ensuring plans are documented, shared, and accessible across the system. 

• Work collaboratively with The Hub to ensure warm, joined-up handovers and continuity of care planning. 

• Provide direct clinical support to care home teams in managing predictable deterioration, recognising dying, and delivering compassionate end-of-life care where this is the primary need. 

• Support care home staff to build confidence and competence in end-of-life care through coaching, role modelling, and structured education, tailored to individual care home settings. 

• Contribute to the broader neighbourhood PEOL improvement agenda, sharing learning from outreach work with The Hub team and Pier Health Group clinical leadership. 

• Provide specialist knowledge and expertise aligned to the Daffodil Standards, using them flexibly as a framework to support quality improvement within each care home. 

• Work proactively alongside UHBW clinical teams to support the early identification of patients approaching end of life.

About the Role 

These roles offer a unique chance to: 

• Work across health and social care setting in a truly integrated way 

• Influence and improve end-of-life care at scale 

• Build strong, lasting relationships between care homes, community and hospital teams 

• Be part of a forward-thinking, collaborative model of care 

• Registered Nurse on NMC register (Adult)
• Relevant Nursing Degree
• Relevant post-registration qualification (minimum Level 6)
• Experience working in Specialist Palliative Care
• Experience influencing multi-professional team decision making about complex palliative and end of life care matters.
• Understand how to work with patients, their family, and carers to gather feedback and make improvements to end of life experiences.
• Facilitate interprofessional team learning, development, improvement, and innovation
• Expert knowledge of complex symptom management.
• Ability to travel to varying work locations during unsocial hours as role requires
• Hold a current and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle which includes business insurance

What's in it for you:  

• Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata) – We honour continued NHS service and reassess total annual leave dates.
• Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave  
• Continuous Professional development 
• Industry leading training programmes 
• Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work 
• Defined contribution schemes for Pension - NHS pensions can be carried over!
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme 
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems   
• Introduce a friend scheme 
• Help with childcare cost (T & C’s apply)  
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card  
• Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme  
• Life assurance – for all employees  

To view the job description, please click here.

To apply, please send us your most recent CV and a cover letter detailing your experience, how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work for Marie Curie. 

Advert closes: 9th July 2026

Interviews to be held on 13th July 2026

We will be reaching out to applicants during the course of this campaign being live to conduct any screening calls, or schedule interviews.

For more information or an informal chat please contact Adam Collings on Adam.Collings@mariecurie.org.uk

At Marie Curie, our values are central to everything we do. They guide how we care for people, how we work together, and how we make decisions every day. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe for everyone — staff and volunteers alike — supportive, inclusive and rewarding.  We take stringent steps to ensure that anyone who joins our organisation are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. We actively consider our impact on the planet, embedding sustainability into everyday decisions to create a lasting, positive difference for the individuals we care for and the world we share.

We believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive and fulfil their potential. Marie Curie is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, recognising both the social justice imperative and the strength a diverse workforce brings.  We actively encourage applications from people of all cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

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