Clinical Team Leader – Band 7

Birmingham Hospice; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Hospice is seeking a Clinical Lead for the Specialist Palliative Urgent Response (SPUR) Service to lead and develop a dynamic multidisciplinary team across Birmingham and Solihull.

The role combines leadership and operational support with direct clinical care, guiding Urgent Support Healthcare Assistants, Urgent Response Nurses and Paramedics while responding to urgent referrals. You will help deliver timely palliative care in challenging settings.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional (NMC or HCPC registered).
• Passion for palliative and end of life care.
• Experience of leading and supporting clinical teams.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across organisations and systems.
• Commitment to continuous learning, innovation and service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and operational support for the SPUR service, spending ~60% of time developing Urgent Support Healthcare Assistants, Urgent Response Nurses and Paramedics.
• Clinical work 40%, rotating between triage and face-to-face care, responding to urgent referrals.
• Ensure patients are assessed and receive timely, specialist palliative and end-of-life care, aiming to keep them in their preferred place of care where possible.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical leadership

Team development

Cross-functional collaboration

Urgent care

Job description

Join our Specialist Palliative Urgent Response Team

Clinical Team Lead, Specialist Palliative Urgent Response Service (SPUR)

Closing Date: 5 October 2026

Location: Both Sites
Hours: 37.5 hours, combination of day and night working, 8.00pm – 08:00am and day shifts
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Band 7 £45,732 to £52,333 per annum

DBS Requirement: Enhanced check with Adult Barring List

Are you passionate about delivering exceptional palliative and end of life care while leading and developing others?

At Birmingham Hospice, patients and families are at the heart of everything we do. From our Inpatient Units and Living Well Centres to bereavement support services, we provide compassionate care and support when it matters most.

We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our innovative Specialist Palliative Urgent Response (SPUR) Service as a Clinical Lead. This role is ideal for an experienced and compassionate healthcare professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality clinical care while leading and developing a dynamic multidisciplinary team.

As a key member of the SPUR leadership team, you will spend approximately 60% of your time providing leadership and operational support, helping to develop and inspire our Urgent Support Healthcare Assistants, Urgent Response Nurses and Paramedics. The remaining 40% of your role will be clinical, rotating between triage and face-to-face care, responding to urgent referrals from patients, families and healthcare professionals across Birmingham and Solihull.

Working within a responsive service that aims to assess patients within two hours, you will play a vital role in ensuring patients receive timely, specialist palliative and end of life care, helping them remain in their preferred place of care wherever possible.

What We’re Looking For

• Registered healthcare professional (NMC or HCPC registered)
• Passion for palliative and end of life care
• Experience of leading and supporting clinical teams
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across organisations and systems
• Commitment to continuous learning, innovation and service improvement

Why Join Birmingham Hospice?

• Be part of an innovative service delivering compassionate care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Play a key role in shaping and developing a growing specialist service
• Develop your leadership and specialist palliative care expertise
• Make a meaningful difference to patients and families when they need support most
• Benefit from a generous employee benefits package
• Retain NHS continuous service benefits, including pension and annual leave entitlements

Join us and help deliver outstanding palliative and end of life care across Birmingham and Solihull.

“After I saw the care my dad received at the hospice, I knew I wanted to work there.”

Barbara Bennett, a Healthcare Assistant at Birmingham Hospice’s Erdington site, was inspired to join the hospice after seeing the expert palliative care her dad, Frederick, received there.

Having worked in healthcare for 30 years, Barbara decided it was time she went into palliative and end of life care after helping to care for her father when he was diagnosed with heart failure, kidney failure and dementia.

The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim.

We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.

For those with a disability, including a physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or a neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role. Learn more about workplace adjustments and recruitment here .

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life.