Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care

Employer Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BNH/RHCH/AWMH Town Winchester/Andover/Basingstoke Salary £55,690 - £62,682 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 16/01/2026 08:00

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

The palliative care service operates over 7 days.

The Palliative Care business unit operates across all Trust sites. This includes the hospice in Andover and Winchester, links to the hospice in Basingstoke and various activities in the community. This is a cross site role.

• Leads the development in own speciality services
• Delivers education to the multi-disciplinary team
• Assessment and treatment of own caseload of patients
• Responsible for clinical governance within the team.
• Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved
• Leads on clinical audit
• Adviser for the speciality both internally and externally
• Lead on the highly complex patient assessment, where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatments

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites:
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

We understand relocating can be a big step. Hampshire Hospitals may be able to provide accommodation options for successful candidates, depending on availability. If this something you would like to explore please contact Southern Housing on

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

• Educated at MSc level
• Teaching qualification
• 3 years experience at band 7 in palliative care
• Masters level or equivalent
• Evidence of leadership
• Evidence of teaching qualification
• Evidence of advanced nurse practice skills
• Non medical prescriber
• Evidence of community specialist palliative care practice
• Evidence of acute hospital palliative care team practice
• Evidence for quality improvement within palliative care

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be…