Clinical Lead Palliative and End - North and East

Main area Clinical Lead Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 30 hours per week Job  

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- Vacancy covers N&E cornwall and parts of Central cornwall Town To be confirmed Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 30/10/2026

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The role is key to ensuring that the quality and education of staff within CFT has a strong Palliative and End of Life focus. The successful candidate will work closely with a range of staff and patients across community services including Hospital at home.

The successful post holder will work collaboratively with all members of the multidisciplany team to establish a whole system approach to the management of patients accessing palliative and end of life care.

This role requires a clinician to be working at an enhanced level who is able to demonstrate a broad range of competencies and is able to adapt to a wide variety of clinical circumstances from an educational, professional and leadership perspective.

The post will work alongside the End of life Care Clinical Facilitator , Operational Leads and Developmental Nurse Consultant to support Community and Hospital Teams to monitor the quality of care and provision and lead on areas of service development and education within Palliative and End of Life Care.

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

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