Macmillan Lead Nurse for Palliative Care

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a compassionate and experienced Macmillan Lead Nurse for Palliative Care. This role focuses on providing clinical leadership for palliative care services, ensuring patients with life-limiting illnesses receive exceptional care and support. Responsibilities include managing a dedicated nursing team, collaborating with medical professionals, and enhancing palliative care services. The position offers a salary of £55,690 to £62,682 per annum, pro rata, as well as numerous staff benefits.

Benefits

Supportive work culture

Staff Recognition Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Fast-track Physiotherapy service

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in EOLC and Palliative Care.
• Demonstrated clinical expertise in palliative care.
• Experience in teaching and counselling required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership to the Palliative Care team.
• Support patients and families in hospital and community.
• Drive development and delivery of palliative care services.

Skills

EOLC/Palliative Care Experience

Clinical expertise

Counselling

Teaching

Community experience

Education

Registered Nurse

MSc or working towards

Job description

Macmillan Lead Nurse for Palliative Care

The closing date is 04 January 2026

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and highly motivated Palliative and End of Life Care Lead Nurse to provide clinical and professional leadership for our specialist palliative care service. This role will drive the development, coordination, and delivery of exceptional care, ensuring all patients facing life-limiting illnesses and their families receive seamless, holistic, and dignified palliative and end of life support.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of this role is to:

• Provide support to patients with specialist palliative care needs and their families, in both the hospital and community settings
• Provide strong, visible leadership and have the appropriate level of authority to offer support, advice and assistance required by patients, their families and carers. Concentrating on areas of patient safety, patient experience and clinical outcomes will be essential.
• Provide leadership, line management and operational nursing responsibility for the Palliative Care Nursing Team
• Working with consultant colleagues in Palliative Medicine to:
  • Share lead clinical responsibility for Palliative and End of Life (EoL) care
  • Enhance Palliative and EoL Care in HDFT and across the locality through education of healthcare professionals and implementation of evidence based guidelines.
  • Support the organisation with service improvement initiatives in Palliative and (EoL) Care in line with the national strategy for EoLC across Harrogate and Rural District (HaRD).

About us

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Please note:

• Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
• Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
• Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
• All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

Job responsibilities

For further details, please see attached job description and person specification or contact Charly Gill on [e-mail].

Shortlisting

• Registered Nurse
• EOLC/Palliative Care Experience
• MSc/Working towards
• Clinical expertise
• Counselling
• Teaching
• Community experience

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.

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum, pro rata