Clinical Lead in Specialist Palliative Care

Integrated Care System; Norwich; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead in Specialist Palliative Care at a leading NHS Trust in Norwich. In this role, you will provide professional leadership for community and inpatient palliative care teams, ensuring high standards of patient-centered care and clinical excellence. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in palliative care, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement in service delivery.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with extensive palliative and end of life care experience.
• Willingness to work towards further qualifications.
• Experience in leading a team and promoting clinical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Act as an ambassador for clinical excellence and provide team leadership.
• Hold a caseload of complex patients and supervise team training.
• Develop policies and clinical guidelines for palliative care services.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Change management

Analytical skills

Effective leadership skills

Teaching skills

IT literate

Education

Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register

Relevant degree or diploma in nursing or a health-related subject

Relevant MSc in nursing or health related subject or willingness to work towards

Relevant post-registration qualification in non-medical prescribing or working towards

Job description

Go back Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Clinical Lead in Specialist Palliative Care

The closing date is 24 July 2025

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead in Specialist Palliative Care, on a fixed-term basis for 12 months.

The post holder will work closely with the Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurses, and the Priscilla Bacon Lodge inpatient unit, acting as an ambassador for clinical excellence, and providing professional and clinical leadership for both teams.

The post would suit candidates who have an extensive background and experience in palliative and end of life care, as well as a high standard of professionalism, strong leadership skills, and experience of working to improve services to promote good quality, safe, and effective patient-centered care.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be an ambassador for clinical excellence by maintaining their own specialist training, development, and expertise so that they can provide professional and clinical leadership to the team.

You will be responsible for the supervision, training, and clinical skills competency sign-off of staff working within both teams.

You will support the teams' caseload of complex patients and undertake ad-hoc clinical work on the inpatient unit on a regular basis, , in order to support service delivery and maintain high standards of clinical practice.

You will promote excellent standards of clinical care in the team through continual service improvement arising from supervision and training strategies, competency frameworks, and learning from incidents, complaints, audits, and outcome measure data.

You will act as a clinical representative for the service in both internal and external clinical development meetings and forums.

You will promote high standards of palliative and end of life care across our local network of providers by acting as a specialist resource and contributing to the delivery of formal and informal training and education.

About us

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

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Job responsibilities

To be an ambassador for clinical excellence, maintaining high standards of training, development, and expertise to provide professional and clinical leadership to the teams.

Clinical responsibilities

The post-holder is expected to operate autonomously at an advanced level of clinical practice, hold a caseload of patients with complex specialist palliative care needs and to undertake ad-hoc clinical work in the Priscilla Bacon Lodge Inpatient Unit.

Professional

Be proactive in promoting information sharing to support on-going development of Specialist Palliative Care services.

Organisational

Be committed to working in a changing environment responding to new demands. Be willing to be flexible to the changing needs of the service acting as a change agent.

To develop local and trust-wide policies, clinical guidelines, and protocols necessary to support the delivery of specialist and generalist palliative care services. Ensure that palliative care policies and procedures are adhered to through education and clinical governance.

To work with the ICS to enhance palliative and End of Life Care.

Attend team and senior management team meetings.

To ensure that all practices adhere to NMC policies and guidelines.

To continue to develop personal and professional competencies through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and the performance review process.

Please refer to job description for further information

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register
• Relevant degree or diploma in nursing or other health related subject
• Relevant teaching qualification or relevant experience.
• Relevant MSc in nursing or other health related subject or willingness to work towards.
• Relevant post-registration qualification in non-medical prescribing or working towards.

Experience

• Community/palliative care/oncology experience or experience in a related area at relevant level
• Understands the wider issues impacting on the provision of palliative care, e.g. The End of Life Care Strategy, NICE Guidance, NHS Cancer Plan previous experience in research e.g. clinical trials, own research projects
• Experience of leading a team
• Community experience
• Knowledge and experience of audit
• Previous experience in research e.g. clinical trials, own research projects
• Able to demonstrate evidence-based knowledge of symptom control

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Advanced communication skills
• Change management
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Analytical skills, with the ability to problem solve complex situations
• Innovative, adaptable to change
• Calm, able to work under pressure
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Ability to work within a team
• Demonstrates a commitment to providing and receiving clinical supervision
• Understands the wider issues impacting on the provision of palliative care e.g. The End of Life Care Strategy, NICE Guidance, NHS Cancer Plan
• IT literate
• Effective leadership skills
• Teaching skills
• Advanced assessment skills
• Ability to deliver psychological assessment and support to a minimum of Level 2 as outlined in NICE Supportive and Palliative Care Guidelines

Personal Attributes and Behaviour

• Honest and trustworthy
• Commitment to providing quality services
• Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• Innovative, adaptable to change
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Calm, able to work under Pressure

Other

• Holds a full and valid UK Driving licence and have access to a vehicle
• Able to communicate effectively using the English Language in both written and verbal forms

Communication

• Expert communication skills, able to address communication barriers
• Have good IT/ keyboard skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust