Specialist Palliative Care Nurse | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust


Company:	Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 pro rata per annum
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Kings Lynn, PE30 5NU
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	4 Nov 2026

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Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse with the relevant skills and experience to work as a band 7 Specialist Palliative Care Nurse , based in our friendly, supportive team based in West Norfolk.

The Community Specialist Palliative Care Nursing PLACE teams are based at locations across Norwich, North, South and West Norfolk providing expert clinical palliative and end of life care for patients in their own homes and care facilities.

The successful candidate will work across 3 duties as a specialist palliative care nurse: triage, community visiting and call handling; providing advice to professionals, patients and their families or carers on the palliative care advice line. The advice line operates from the coordination centre at the new purpose-built Priscilla Bacon Lodge, in Colney, as well as from the base of your working base/Place when appropriate.

The teams work as part of the wider Specialist Palliative Care Service which includes a consultant-led specialist inpatient unit, a therapy team a Psychological family support team and a Day Therapies service.

We are proud to work closely with our Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity colleagues who support patients with enhanced care such as complementary therapy, bereavement support, music therapy and more.

You will have your own caseload of patients within west place (West Norfolk) and will work closely with colleagues in community nursing and therapies teams, urgent and Supported Care, hospice at home, the acute palliative care team and GPs/Primary Care, to clinically manage palliative and end of life care patients safely in their own homes.

As a part of your role you will provide clinical leadership and support to our Associate Palliative Care Nurses and expert advice and psychological support to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals as part of a daily clinical team working on our advice line.

Our Band 7 Specialist Nurses are also expected to act as Non-Medical Prescribers and we support team members to undertake a relevant post-registration training course if required.

The service offers a commitment to ongoing personal development and offers a supportive, friendly network of colleagues.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

• The post-holder is expected to operate autonomously at an advanced level of clinical practice providing evidence based expert palliative care and advice to all colleagues.

• To provide holistic specialist palliative care nursing assessment of patients and carers with highly complex needs, identifying priorities of care, implementing strategies in order to give this care and evaluation to ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.

• To utilise clinical assessment skills and non-medical prescribing as required.

• To provide education, information and advice to patients, their relatives and carers acting as the patient’s advocate where appropriate.

• To provide psychosocial support utilising advanced communication skills, particularly at times of high distress or heightened emotional response, e.g. at times of diagnosis, at a time of recurrence and managing last few days of life.

• Influencing clinical practice, indirectly with the provision of education, information and advice, to providers of generalist palliative care.

• To participate in MDT, GSF and SPCN meetings as a core member of the specialist palliative care team contributing to the MDT discussion/patient assessment/care planning.

• Identify those adults and children at risk of complicated grief and plan care as appropriate.

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026

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