Band 7 Service Lead

Bolton Hospice; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton Hospice is seeking a strong Service Lead to oversee the nursing team across the Inpatient Unit, Well Being Hub and Hospice at Home, ensuring safe, patient-centred care and driving clinical governance improvements.

The role requires a Registered Nurse with senior palliative care experience, leadership training, and advanced communications skills; travel to meetings off-site is expected, and a DBS check is mandatory for appointment.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with senior level experience in palliative care.
• Leadership/management training or qualification.
• Enhanced/Advanced Communications Skills qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the nursing team in clinical practice to deliver safe, high-quality patient-centered care.
• Monitor and maintain professional standards through Clinical Governance, developing policies and evidence-based practice.
• Collaborate with Head of Clinical Services and Service Leads to enable multi-professional teamwork and service development.
• Lead change across hospice services to meet local population needs; support service delivery across Inpatient Unit, Well Being Hub and Hospice at Home.
• Travel independently to meetings off-site as required and support community service delivery.

Skills

Palliative care leadership

Clinical governance

Senior nursing

Team leadership

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Leadership training

Enhanced Communications Skills

Job description

Bolton Hospice’s consultant-led team of doctors, nurses and other professional staff provide expert care and support for local people with terminal or life-limiting illnesses and their families, in the hospice and at home. We not only take care of patients' physical needs, but we also consider their emotional, spiritual and social needs too. Whilst supporting families and close friends, both during illness and in bereavement.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a strong and motivated leader across all hospice services. The Service Lead role has a broad and diverse remit to lead the nursing team in clinical practice to provide safe, quality, patient focused care to clients and drive forward the highest standards of palliative care service provision. This post will appeal to an individual with the ability to deliver in all aspects of clinical care and staff management, across the diverse hospice services, this being the Inpatient Unit, Well Being Hub Service and Hospice at Home. Whilst providing support to the Head of Clinical Services.

Salary£47,810 per annum

Full Time, 37.5hrs/ 5 days per week

Closing date for applications: Sunday 1st February 2026

Interview date to be confirmed.

The Role:

The Service Lead will monitor and maintain the professional standards required through leadership and management of hospice services, creating a supportive and unified team, whose prime purpose is to provide safe, effective care to those who need it, across all hospice services.

The post holder will take a key role in the Clinical Governance processes including the review, development and implementation of policies and evidence-based practice required for the safe efficient and effective day-to-day operation of the hospice services and will work closely with the Head of Clinical Services and Service Leads across the organisation to ensure multi-professional collaborative working.

What you need:

We are looking for a Registered Nurse with relevant experience working at a senior level within palliative care. The successful candidate will need to be driven by quality improvement and have the qualities of a motivational leader to continuously improve the standard of care and ensure governance structures are embedded throughout whilst working in collaboration with other clinical managers, senior management team and colleagues to development services and to facilitate and lead change across the service to meet the needs of the local population.

The successful candidate will have leadership management training/qualification as well as holding an Enhanced/Advanced Communications Skills qualification and ideally have experience of working in a hospice environment. It is essential that the post holder is able to travel independently, to be able to attend meetings off-site when required, and fulfill the completion of support across the community service delivery within Hospice at Home.

Bolton Hospice welcomes applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, marital status or sexual orientation. Any appointment will be made on merit alone. Any offer of employment for this post will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check. Bolton Hospice has a No Smoking Policy.