Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care

NHS; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a highly motivated nurse to join their Specialist Palliative Care Team as a Band 6 Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. This permanent, full-time role involves managing a caseload of patients with complex needs and working with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must have NMC registration and relevant qualifications, with support offered for continued professional development. The role provides an opportunity to contribute to excellent end-of-life care across the trust, emphasizing teamwork and patient support.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Recordable Oncology/Palliative qualification (20 credits at 1st degree level) or equivalent.
• Teaching or mentorship qualification/experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence based specialist palliative care to patients and families.
• Manage a caseload of patients, implementing programmes of care.
• Work collaboratively with multi-professional teams.

Job description

Overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust on a full-time, permanent contract as a Band 6 Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. You may be asked to work across the service subject to service need and for your own role development; therefore you will need to have access to a car for work purposes.

Operating across 7 days, we are a dynamic, multidisciplinary team delivering highly specialist palliative care advice, support and monitoring to patients, their families and staff across the acute and community settings. This is a fast paced, demanding role caring for people and their families who require specialist palliative care services. You will work in a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Specialist Palliative Care, and Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative Care across the trust. You will actively contribute to advancing high quality specialist palliative care services and promoting excellence in end of life care across ELHT, with training and development opportunities supported to meet clinical needs.

Main duties of the job

• Provide evidence based specialist palliative care, advice and support to patients with cancer or other life limiting illness, their families and carers.
• Manage a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs in a holistic manner assessing, developing and implementing programmes of care and managing complex physical, psycho-social, emotional and spiritual needs.
• Organise and manage own workload to ensure the delivery of care, to meet patient needs.
• Ensure patients are referred appropriately to key health care workers when specialist palliative care intervention is completed.
• Work collaboratively with multi-professional teams across the health economy/ICS.
• Maintain accurate and effective electronic patient records, keep them updated and communicate to relevant members of the MDT.
• Collect and collate statistics as required in accordance with professional, national and organisational requirements.
• Act as a core member of the palliative care MDT ensuring that all new and complex patients with specialist palliative care needs are assessed and discussed as appropriate.
• Participate in non-clinical aspects of the clinical nurse specialist role including audit, education and research.
• Provide specialist palliative care advice, education and training to all members of the multi-professional team across all care settings as required by the service.
• Work within or towards the competencies of V300 qualification.

About us

The post holder will contribute to the provision of a coordinated and comprehensive specialist palliative care service for patients, families and carers across ELHT. Responsibilities include shared caseload management, patient assessment, management planning and complex pain and symptom management, acting as a specialist resource for advice to health care professionals across ELHT and maintaining excellent working relationships with the wider MDT.

Details

Date posted: 30 January 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 435-CIC-007-26

Job locations: Unity House, Royal Blackburn hospital, Blackburn, BB2 3HH

Employer details

Employer: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Unity House, Royal Blackburn hospital, Blackburn, BB2 3HH

Employer's website: http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job responsibilities

• Be involved and contribute to clinical protocols and developments for the specialist palliative care service.
• Embrace and support line management and the department in making service improvements effective in the workplace.
• Ensure compliance with organisational policies and procedures and national, legal and professional standards.
• Be an active member of appropriate groups representing needs of patients and appropriate staff.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of a seven day service working flexibly over the seven days to meet the needs of the service.
• Maintain accurate up to date information relevant to service, compiling statistical evidence as required.
• Contribute to management of complaints and incidents.
• Work within palliative care clinical governance framework.

Qualifications and experience

Essential

• Registered General Nurse/Current NMC registration.
• Recordable Oncology/Palliative qualification (20 credits at 1st degree level) or equivalent practical experience demonstrated throughout application.
• Teaching or mentorship qualification and/or experience of teaching both formally and informally.

Desirable

• Advanced communication skills or willingness to undertake.
• V300 prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake.

Experience

• Able to demonstrate extensive post registration experience in a palliative care setting.
• Evidence of recent study, not including core mandatory training, in the last 2 years.
• Able to demonstrate knowledge about the importance of effective communication in a team and with patients and their families.

Desirable

• Previous specialist palliative care experience is desirable.

Personal attributes

• Self-awareness of own personal developmental needs / limitations.
• Importance of time management / diary management.
• Autonomous working / team working.
• Self-awareness of own well being.
• Evidence of local and national palliative care drivers.

Other

• Access to a car for work purposes.
• Willingness to travel and work flexibly over 7 days within the hospital or community specialist palliative care team.

Disclosures

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure to the DBS will be submitted to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sponsorship and registration

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.