Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Palliative Care
As part of Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people & women from London to the South East England and provides specialist care for families across the UK and around the world.
Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life.
Right in the heart of vibrant London, we benefit from excellent transport links, we have staff working here from the local areas, spanning across London, and further afield into the home counties.
We strive to recruit and retain staff who are motivated to develop and learn with us as we continually strive to ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe, and focused on women, children and their families.
Closing date: 21st April 2026
Duties
We are seeking to recruit a dynamic and innovative nurse with experience in Paediatric Palliative Care to our Clinical Nurse Specialist team.
- As a clinical nurse specialist, you will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working together to deliver this specialist service to children and families under the care of Evelina London across the South East network. This will involve travel to local hospitals, hospices and children’s homes.
- You will bring excellent communication, clinical skills and a desire to maintain and role model a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. There is an expectation that you will be able to work autonomously. The role also involves an element of lone working.
- You will be responsible for developing and delivering specialist pathways of care as part of a multi-professional team, working with care providers across the South East to ensure children and families receive high-quality palliative care in the most appropriate setting.
- This role will involve taking part in an out-of-hours telephone on-call rota to provide advice and support. The on-call rota is in addition to your contracted hours.
You will benefit from excellent support from the existing CNS team and Palliative Care consultants & we will offer you a comprehensive range of experience and development opportunities.
If you feel you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to take this opportunity to join this fantastic team please take this opportunity and contact us.
About Us
At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for us, and for you. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for women, children and families; as we continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs, we recognise the huge benefit of our workforce being reflective of the diverse communities we serve.
We are committed to supporting the professional development of staff, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children, and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge, we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.
If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse and have the appetite to join a forward-thinking, positive environment where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Beth Abraham/ Natasha Wright
Job title: Lead nurse/ Matron
Email address: beth.abraham1@nhs.net
To discuss the role in more detail, please contact either:
Ella Aidoo, Palliative care consultant - ella.aidoo@gstt.nhs.uk
Kathy Gilbert, Paediatric Palliative CNS - kathy.gilbert@gstt.nhs.uk
