Macmillan Lead Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHSFT; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Chesterfield is seeking a Palliative Care professional to lead and support outstanding patient care. This role includes clinical decision making, providing educational support and leading service development initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Palliative and End of Life care, with excellent leadership and team collaboration skills. This position emphasizes compassionate, ambitious, respectful, and encouraging care values.

Qualifications

• Expertise in clinical decision making and patient assessment.
• Ability to provide leadership and develop programs in Palliative Care.
• Excellent communication skills for working with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement service development in patient care.
• Provide education to team members for competent service delivery.
• Evaluate service effectiveness through audit and quality assurance.

Skills

Expert clinical decision making

Team leadership

Palliative care expertise

Education and training abilities

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Uses expert levels of clinical decision making through specialist assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support patients and carers who have complex and/or changing physical symptoms, emotional or practical needs. Overall responsibility for the care of a caseload of patients requiring specialist advice as appropriate, accept referrals from other healthcare professionals and work unsupervised. Through demonstration of high levels of clinical expertise and practice, work collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), divisional care unit and others to review and plan services which are responsive, cost effective and evidence based. Provide strong, professional leadership working in partnership to enhance professional standards of care across the service linking in with primary, secondary and tertiary care as appropriate. Lead and participate in research and audit within specialist area. Instrumental in providing specialist advice and educational programmes across all disciplines internally and externally, evaluating the effectiveness.

The Palliative Care team

Contributes to the delivery of outstanding patient care by:

• Providing a patient centred, evidence-based specialist service for patients with Palliative and End of Life care needs and those important to them at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
• Providing leadership, purpose and vision, as the service lead for one aspect of the Palliative Care service.
• Developing and supporting a programme of education that enables other team members to be competent in the delivery of all aspects of the Palliative Care service.
• Acting as a resource for all those involved in the care and management of the patients who have Palliative Care needs.
• Promoting an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through the use of both formal and informal educational strategies with the multi-professional team, directly in clinical areas and in the classroom setting.
• Ensuring that the service is evaluated via a programme of audit and quality assurance/monitoring.
• Working in partnership with other service leads to provide a cohesive seamless service.
• Taking a lead role in developing clinical practice.

As colleagues, we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:

• Compassion: Treating everyone with kindness – welcoming diversity and inclusion, considering individual needs; and challenging inappropriate behaviours outside of our values.
• Ambition: Aspiring to be the best – reaching high standards, providing exceptional care and services; and achieving measurable improvements in people’s health and wellbeing.
• Respect: Valuing and appreciating everyone – listening, learning, and acting on their experiences, being open and honest; and recognising that working with others brings benefits.
• Encouragement: Opportunities for all – supporting education and development, helping people to bring their improvement ideas to life and speak-up; and getting everyone involved in our future.

Lead area Deliverables

Contributes to the delivery of outstanding patient care by:

Palliative care Inpatient

• Leads on service development and the implementation of new ways of working that improve the quality of patient care i.e. providing a visual presence in ED/EMU, admission avoidance, innovation in delivery of education, sustainable 7-day services.

CUP

• Participates in diagnostic MDT meetings and coordinates patient care in partnership with the MDT coordinator.
• Identifies and develops clinical protocols and operational policies that are in line with National standards.

Please see job description for further details.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025