Palliative Care Nurse Specialist

St Elizabeth Hospice Group; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare charity in Ipswich is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join their Community Nursing Team on a permanent basis. The role involves managing a caseload of patients and providing specialist palliative nursing care, ensuring that care is tailored to meet the individual needs of patients and their families. Candidates should have experience in palliative care and the ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team. This is an excellent opportunity to make a difference in patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Experience in palliative care and working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Registered Nurse with appropriate qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients within the Integrated Neighbourhood Team.
• Provide specialist palliative nursing care to patients and their families.
• Assess and plan care to meet patients' needs.

Skills

Palliative care

Teamwork in a multi-disciplinary environment

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join the Planned Service within our Community Nursing Team on a permanent basis. You will work with the Clinical Nurse Specialist to manage a caseload of patients within the allocated Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT). You will provide specialist palliative nursing care to patients and their families, ensuring their needs are holistically assessed, their care is planned to meet their needs and evaluated.

St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our most recent Care Quality Commission report rated the hospice as “Outstanding”.

Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families.

The hospice’s work is centred on the individual’s needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital or in the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families via the In-Patient Unit, the Community Care Unit including outpatient clinics, home visits from the Community Nursing, Medical and Therapy Teams, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support.

To thrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate experience in palliative care and of working within a multi‑disciplinary team. This is a chance to make a real difference to people’s lives.

Please note that we have a flexible workforce policy which means that employees will be deployed in other areas when there is the need to do so. This benefits service users and employees.

Safeguarding & Recruitment

St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero‑tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.

Informal visit / discussion

If you would like an opportunity to find out more about working at the hospice and how it can fit your own career aspirations, we recommend an informal visit/discussion prior to you completing your application. Please contact one of our Community CNS Team Leaders via email on [e-mail].

Details

• Full vacancy description: Apply online
• Closing date: Monday 26 January 2026
• Interview date: Wednesday 4 February 2026
• Location: Ipswich
• Status: Permanent
• Salary WTE: £38,682.00 – £46,580.00 – Band 6
• Hours: Full time / part time. 7.5 hour shifts Monday to Friday 08:30 to 16:30