Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse.
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust. The role involves providing specialist palliative care advice and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families across acute and community settings. You will manage a caseload, assess patients, and implement care plans, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. The position requires flexibility, including travel for work purposes, and offers support for training and development.
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse/Current NMC registration.
- Recordable Oncology/Palliative qualification (20 credits at 1st degree level) or equivalent practical experience demonstrated throughout application
- Teaching or mentorship qualification and/or experience of teaching both formally and informally.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced communication skills or willingness to undertake.
- V300 prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake.
- Able to demonstrate extensive post registration experience in a palliative care setting.
- Evidence of recent study, not including core mandatory training, in the last 2 years
- Able to demonstrate knowledge about the importance of effective communication in a team and with patients and their families
- Previous specialist palliative care experience is desirable
- Personal attributes
- Self-awareness of own personal developmental needs / limitations.
- Importance of Time management skills/Diary management
- Autonomous working/ team working
- Self-awareness of own well being
- Evidence of local and national palliative care drivers.
- Other
- Assess to a car for work purposes
- Willingness to travel and work flexibly over 7 days within the hospital or community specialist palliative care team.
- Registered General Nurse/Current NMC registration.
- Recordable Oncology/Palliative qualification (20 credits at 1st degree level) or equivalent practical experience demonstrated throughout application
- Teaching or mentorship qualification and/or experience of teaching both formally and informally.
- Advanced communication skills or willingness to undertake.
- V300 prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake.
- Able to demonstrate extensive post registration experience in a palliative care setting.
- Evidence of recent study, not including core mandatory training, in the last 2 years
- Able to demonstrate knowledge about the importance of effective communication in a team and with patients and their families
- Previous specialist palliative care experience is desirable
- Personal attributes
- Self-awareness of own personal developmental needs / limitations.
- Importance of Time management skills/Diary management
- Autonomous working/ team working
- Self-awareness of own well being
- Evidence of local and national palliative care drivers.
- Other
- Assess to a car for work purposes
- Willingness to travel and work flexibly over 7 days within the hospital or community specialist palliative care team.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse.
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust on a full-time, permanent contract as a Band 6 Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. Whilst this vacancy is within the hospital team, please be advised that you may be asked to work across the service subject to service need and for your own role development; therefore you will need to have access to a car for work purposes.
Operating across 7 days, we are a dynamic, multidisciplinary team delivering highly specialist palliative care advice, support and monitoring to patients, their families and staff across the acute and community settings. This is a very fast paced, rewarding and demanding role caring, for people and their families who require Specialist palliative Care services. You will be working in a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Specialist Palliative care team and Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative Care across the trust.
You will play an active role, together with the existing members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team, in advancing high quality specialist palliative care services and
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