Specialist Palliative Care Nurse – Peterborough

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Specialist Palliative Care Nurse – Peterborough

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Specialist Palliative Care and enhance Palliative care skills experience and expertise within the Specialist Palliative Care field

Delivering high quality palliative care to patients within the Community setting and with the potential to rotate into the Acute Hospital setting.

You would ideally have some knowledge of symptom control for patients with end of life malignant or non-malignant care needs.

The job will involve the education and training of other health professionals regarding end of life and specialist palliative care across North West Anglia NHS Trust and the local community.

In supporting a seven day specialist palliative care service the Trust region and the local community, the successful candidates will need to work weekends and Bank Holidays pro rata.

The role offers an opportunity to develop palliative care knowledge and experience across the hospital and community provision in the region.

This secondment or fixed term opportunity does have some potential to become permanent in the future though this is in no way guaranteed.

Main duties of the job

To deliver high quality holistic palliative care interventions to patients with complex palliative care needs, their families and support care teams.

To demonstrate nurse leadership in action, role modelling Trust values whilst delivering patient focused care.

To deliver teaching formally and informally to patients, carers and colleagues.

To engage with service improvement tools, including audit to support service innovation and audit.

Developing Skill and expertise and delivering plans of care delegated by the Specialist MDT.

About us

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

Education & Qualifications

  • Specialist module in palliative field, or working toward, or willing to achieve within agreed fixed time period.
  • NMC or HCPC Registered Professional
  • Advanced Communication Skills
  • Masters level qualification or unit in specialist field

Experience

  • Can demonstrate nurse leadership through extended roles
  • Multi-disciplinary Team working
  • Up to date evidence of 4 Pillars of Practice
  • Managing people

Knowledge

  • Specialist palliative care symptom control and ability to identify palliative emergencies
  • Holistic Palliative Assessment
  • Up to date knowledge of palliative care guidance and best practice local and national initiatives
  • Ethical dilemmas and how to approach them
  • Legislation including knowledge of Mental Capacity and Care Act

Key Skills

  • Good written and verbal communication Skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively and build positive working relationships
  • Demonstrate ability to formulate patient plan of care
  • Quality Improvement and innovation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum pro rata

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Posted: June 12th, 2026