Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative care | Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

The Palliative Care Team provides a trust wide service offering specialist advice for adults referred with palliative care needs. This includes patients with malignant and non-malignant diagnoses

The post holder will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team within University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will acknowledge and provide the overall responsibility for the provision of specialist nursing advice and support to patients and families referred to the service.

The post holder will utilize skills of clinical expertise, leadership, education, and management to ensure a seamless service for patients, carers and staff.

They will work closely with the multidisciplinary team in hospital and the community to ensure a coordinated quality service and will be actively involved in education, audit and research.

This is a part time post and the successful post holder may be required to work across the Trust, on both Bristol and Weston sites.

Specific skills

· Demonstrate expert palliative care knowledge and skills to provide specialist advice and support on complex pain and symptom management for patients with life limiting conditions and for those closest to them and for colleagues within and external to the Trust.

· Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist individualised management plans.

· Working autonomously, demonstrate high levels of expertise and initiative within complex situations involving multiple teams

· Work closely with patient their families when conveying complex, sensitive and potentially distressing information around prognosis and future care options

· Provide specialist advice, support, education and training to the wider care team who are providing direct core level palliative care to the person

· Support colleagues to communicate highly distressing information regarding diagnosis /prognosis to patients and families

· Lead and participate in the planning, development and evaluation of clinical services using advanced clinical skills and knowledge.

Please see job description attached for full list of duties and responsibilities.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For a detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Strongly advise with making contact with the team prior to application.

This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jul 2026