Senior Nurse - Fast Track Team
Bradford District Care Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced clinician to join the End of Life and Fast Track team. You will undertake comprehensive assessments, coordinate complex care packages, and support timely discharges while ensuring care remains patient-centred and in the preferred place of care.
The role focuses on preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, guiding NHS Continuing Healthcare, and providing leadership and education within a collaborative multi-agency
Qualifications
- Essential: Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration.
- Essential: Evidence of post-registration study and continuing professional development in palliative and end of life care, NHS Continuing Healthcare or a related area of specialist clinical practice.
- Essential: Specialist knowledge equivalent to postgraduate diploma level, acquired through formal education, specialist training and substantial relevant experience.
- Desirable: Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Care.
Responsibilities
- Compassionate and highly organised clinician who can work autonomously whilst building effective relationships across multiple organisations.
- A registered healthcare professional (Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional).
- Experienced in palliative and end of life care, community care, continuing healthcare, complex discharge planning or case management.
- Skilled in clinical assessment, risk management and complex decision-making.
- Knowledgeable about NHS Continuing Healthcare, Fast Track processes and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
- Able to manage a varied caseload and work effectively under pressure.
- An excellent communicator who can support patients, families and professionals through sensitive and challenging situations.
- Passionate about delivering high-quality, equitable care and improving patient outcomes.
Skills
Education
Job description
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, compassionate care to patients at the end of life? We are seeking an experienced and motivated clinician to join our Fast Track Team.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring that patients with rapidly deteriorating conditions receive timely, person-centred care in their place of choice. Working across health and social care systems, you will coordinate complex care packages, provide expert clinical assessment and decision-making, and support patients and families during some of the most significant moments of their lives.
The successful candidate will contribute to preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitating timely hospital discharges, and ensuring seamless access to high-quality palliative and end of life care services.
If you are committed to improving the experience of patients and families at the end of life and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.
Closing Date: 04/11/2026
Shortlisting Date: 05/11/2026
Interview Date: 10/11/2026
- Undertake comprehensive assessments for NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track and NHS Funded Nursing Care, ensuring timely identification of eligible patients.
- Coordinate, implement, review and monitor packages of care for patients with complex palliative and end of life care needs.
- Facilitate timely hospital discharge and support admission avoidance initiatives to enable patients to remain in their preferred place of care wherever possible.
- Provide specialist advice, guidance and support regarding Continuing Healthcare eligibility, Fast Track processes, NHS Funded Nursing Care and end of life care pathways.
- Work collaboratively with patients, carers, families, care homes, hospices, community services, primary care, acute providers and social care colleagues to ensure coordinated, high-quality care.
- Monitor and evaluate care provision, responding proactively to changes in patients' clinical needs and escalating concerns as appropriate.
- Act as an advocate for patients and families, ensuring that care remains person-centred and aligned to individual wishes and preferences.
- Support quality improvement, service development and governance activities within the team.
- Provide clinical leadership and contribute to the education and support of colleagues and partner organisations.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
- Increase mileage rates for > 4500
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
- Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible.
Date posted: 30 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 453-26-8347523
Compassionate and highly organised clinician who can work autonomously whilst building effective relationships across multiple organisations.
- A registered healthcare professional (Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional).
- Experienced in palliative and end of life care, community care, continuing healthcare, complex discharge planning or case management.
- Skilled in clinical assessment, risk management and complex decision-making.
- Knowledgeable about NHS Continuing Healthcare, Fast Track processes and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
- Able to manage a varied caseload and work effectively under pressure.
- An excellent communicator who can support patients, families and professionals through sensitive and challenging situations.
- Passionate about delivering high-quality, equitable care and improving patient outcomes.
This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference every day by supporting patients to receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place. You will join a compassionate, experienced team dedicated to delivering excellence in palliative and end of life care across the Bradford district.
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.
As a condition of continuous employment, it is essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.
- Essential: Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration
- Essential: Evidence of relevant post-registration study and continuing professional development in palliative and end of life care, NHS Continuing Healthcare or a related area of specialist clinical practice.
- Essential: Specialist knowledge equivalent to postgraduate diploma level, acquired through formal education, specialist training and substantial relevant experience.
- Desirable: Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Care
- Essential: Substantial post-registration nursing experience, including recent practice within community, palliative or end of life care services.
- Essential: Experience of undertaking comprehensive assessments for patients with complex, rapidly changing or deteriorating health needs.
- Essential: Experience of applying NHS Continuing Healthcare, Fast Track and NHS-funded Nursing Care processes in clinical practice.
- Essential: Experience of coordinating complex care packages and working collaboratively across health, social care, independent-sector and voluntary-sector services.
- Desirable: Experience of delivering training to groups.
- Desirable: Previous experience of community health care within a community team.
- Essential: Knowledge of Continuing Health Care National Framework and processes.
- Essential: Ability to demonstrate team working and development of others.
- Essential: The ability to lead on multi-disciplinary meetings, demonstrating knowledge of inter-agency collaborative working.
- Desirable: Knowledge & experience of discharge processes.
- Desirable: Demonstrate an understanding of the role of both community services and patients pathways into and out of the acute sector.
- Essential: Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey sensitive, complex or unwelcome information clearly and compassionately, including where there are barriers to understanding.
- Essential: Advanced clinical assessment, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex or conflicting information and determine an appropriate course of action.
- Essential: Ability to undertake comprehensive assessments and plan, coordinate, implement and review complex care pathways and packages across organisational boundaries.
- Essential: Ability to prioritise and manage a complex, unpredictable caseload, respond effectively to changing demands and meet required timescales.
- Desirable: Knowledge of System One.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer name: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: New Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, BD18 3LD, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.bdct.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/
For questions about the job, contact: Community Team Leader, Emma Lousie Celli, emma.celli@bdct.nhs.uk, 07710019997
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