Clinical Nurse Specialist

Are you an experienced and compassionate nurse looking to make a real difference?

We have an exciting opportunity to welcome a Clinical Nurse Specialist, to join our Community Nurse Specialist team, based in and working throughout Taunton.

You will undertake the holistic assessment, planning and delivery of specialist palliative and supportive care for patients, with advanced, progressive life limiting disease.

• Salary: £39,920.27 - 48,070.94 per annum (pro rata if part time)
• Additional Payments: 30% Unsocial Hours on Saturday and 60% on Sunday & bank holidays
• Working Pattern: Up to 37.5 hours per week available
• Contract: Permanent

This role requires working weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis as well as contributing to the out-of-hours advice line; therefore, flexibility and teamwork are crucial in providing this service.

What can you expect to be doing? 

As a CNS, you will manage a caseload of patients, delivering holistic care and specialist advice to support patients and their families through complex and sensitive stages of their journey.

You’ll work closely with GPs, community teams and other professionals, acting as a key resource for palliative care across the local healthcare system.

What will you be doing?

• Managing and prioritising a specialist caseload of patients in the community
• Undertaking holistic assessments and developing personalised care plans
• Providing expert symptom control and end-of-life care advice
• Supporting patients and families with advance care planning
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and primary care colleagues
• Delivering sensitive and complex communication with compassion and professionalism
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to quality improvement
• Supporting education, mentorship and development of colleagues and students

What will you be good at?

You will:

• Be a Registered Nurse
• Have post registration experience within palliative care, oncology, or a related subject
• Be able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Have excellent communication skills.
• Be passionate about palliative care and have a thorough knowledge of life limiting illnesses.

As this role is based in the community, the ability to travel is an essential requirement. 

Regardless of whether you are a well-established clinical nurse specialist or willing to undertake a developmental clinical nurse specialist plan, we would welcome your application.

Our Values

At St Margaret’s Hospice, our values guide everything we do. We are:

• Compassionate: Kindness and care for everyone, every day
• Collaborative: One team, working together for one goal
• Ambitious: Striving for better, now and into the future.

If these values resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you.

Inclusive recruitment
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. If your experience broadly matches the role and you’re motivated to make a difference, we encourage you to apply.

If you need adjustments during recruitment, please contact recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk.

Why join St Margaret’s Hospice?

You won’t just be joining a fantastic team — you’ll become part of a welcoming, community-minded charity making a real difference every day.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment alongside a range of benefits including:

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS pension continuation where applicable*
• 6% employer / 5% employee contribution for non-NHS staff

Additional Benefits

• Life assurance cover (2x salary)
• Health Cash Plans
• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 GP access, counselling, wellbeing support, and legal/financial advice
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced maternity leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Opportunities to volunteer and support fundraising initiatives

*Eligibility criteria applies

Want to Apply or Find Out More?

If you’d like to learn more or have an informal conversation before applying, please contact Colleen Gagg, Community Services Lead, at Colleen.Gagg@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk

If you are passionate about delivering outstanding palliative care and want to be part of a team that truly makes a difference, we would love to hear from you. Just click Apply to submit an application.

Closing date: 22/06/2026

DBS Information

This role requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure.

The Disclosure and Barring Service offers a confidential checking service for transgender applicants. This route gives applicants the choice not to have any gender or name information disclosed on their DBS certificate and is available for all levels of DBS check.

Additional Information

We are currently managing the recruitment process in-house and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us with candidates for this role.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.