Clinical Lead In Specialist Palliative Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead in Specialist Palliative Care. The post holder will work closely with the Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurses, and the Priscilla Bacon Lodge inpatient unit, acting as an ambassador for clinical excellence, and providing professional and clinical leadership for both teams. The post would suit candidates who have an extensive background and experience in palliative and end of life care, as well as a high standard of professionalism, strong leadership skills, and experience of working to improve services to promote good quality, safe, and effective patient-centered care.

• The post-holder will be an ambassador for clinical excellence by maintaining their own specialist training, development, and expertise so that they can provide professional and clinical leadership to the team.
• You will be responsible for the supervision, training, and clinical skills competency sign-off of staff working within both teams.
• You will support the teams' caseload of complex patients and undertake ad-hoc clinical work on the inpatient unit on a regular basis, in order to support service delivery and maintain high standards of clinical practice.
• You will promote excellent standards of clinical care in the team through continual service improvement arising from supervision and training strategies, competency frameworks, and learning from incidents, complaints, audits, and outcome measure data.
• You will act as a clinical representative for the service in both internal and external clinical development meetings and forums.
• You will promote high standards of palliative and end of life care across our local network of providers by acting as a specialist resource and contributing to the delivery of formal and informal training and education.

Date posted: 16 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share
Reference number: -GP
Job locations: Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Century Place, Norwich, NR4 7YA
, United Kingdom

• To be an ambassador for clinical excellence, maintaining high standards of training, development, and expertise to provide professional and clinical leadership to the teams.
• Clinical responsibilities:
  The post-holder is expected to operate autonomously at an advanced level of clinical practice, hold a caseload of patients with complex specialist palliative care needs and to undertake ad-hoc clinical work in the Priscilla Bacon Lodge Inpatient Unit.
• Professional:
  Be proactive in promoting information sharing to support on-going development of Specialist Palliative Care services.
• Organisational:
  Be committed to working in a changing environment responding to new demands. Be willing to be flexible to the changing needs of the service acting as a change agent.
• To develop local and trust-wide policies, clinical guidelines, and protocols necessary to support the delivery of specialist and generalist palliative care services. Ensure that palliative care policies and procedures are adhered to through education and clinical governance.
• To work with the ICs to enhance palliative and End of Life Care.
• Attend team and senior management team meetings.
• To ensure that all practices adhere to NMC policies and guidelines.
• To continue to develop personal and professional competencies through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and the performance review process.

Essential

• Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register
• Relevant degree or diploma in nursing or other health related subject
• Relevant post-registration qualification in palliative care/oncology
• Rele…