Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Educator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves providing expert clinical leadership, education, and practice development to enhance palliative and end-of-life care across hospital and community settings. The post holder will collaborate with the Thames Valley ICB to identify knowledge gaps and support high-quality, person-centred care. Key responsibilities include educating acute and community services, as well as university academic settings, acting as a clinical educator, facilitator, role model, and change agent.
Key responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical leadership, education and practice development.
- Work collaboratively across the Thames Valley ICB to identify gaps in knowledge, skills, confidence and care pathways.
- Provide education to acute and community services, alongside university academic settings.
- Act as a clinical educator, facilitator, role model and change agent.
- Clinical Practice and Expert Support.
- Education and Clinical Teaching.
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration nursing experience
- Substantial experience in palliative and end-of-life care.
- Experience of teaching and supporting nurses and other healthcare professionals.
- Experience of practice development and implementing change
- Experience of quality improvement, audit or service evaluation.
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
- Evidence of continuing professional development in palliative and end-of-life care.
- Excellent knowledge of principles and practice of palliative and end-of-life care.
- Knowledge of symptom assessment and management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with hospice or specialist palliative care services
- Master's level qualification or evidence of study at Master's level.
- PGCert Education
- Quality improvement qualification or experience.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Educator
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
The Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Educator will provide expert clinical leadership, education and practice development to improve the quality, consistency and experience of palliative and end-of-life care across hospital and community settings.
The post holder will work collaboratively across the Thames Valley ICB to identify gaps in knowledge, skills, confidence and care pathways, in-order to support high-quality, person-centred palliative care.
A key responsibility will be to provide education to acute and community services, alongside university academic settings.
The post holder will act as a clinical educator, facilitator, role model and change agent, supporting nurses to translate evidence, policy and best practice into everyday clinical care
Main duties of the job
- Clinical Practice and Expert Support
- Education and Clinical Teaching
- Practice Development and Quality Improvement
- Integration Between Hospital and Community
- Leadership and Service Development
- Evidence-Based Practice and Research
- Governance and Professional Responsibilities
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