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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8C
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
193-7891537NCG
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town
Reading
Salary
£79,504 - £91,609 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/08/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Nurse Consultant and Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care

NHS AfC: Band 8C

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

Please note: all vacancies automatically close when 50 applications have been received.

Job overview

Band 8c Nurse Consultant and Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care

To lead, develop, contribute to and influence strategies within Trust, regionally and nationally to enable partnership development across palliative care services.

To be the Clinical Lead for the palliative care department.

To be responsible for development of a strategy for the professional development of all specialist palliative care nursing staff working within RBFT.

To work autonomously in the assessment and development of clinical management plans across the inpatient and primary care settings and communicate recommendations verbally and in writing to consultants, GPs, hospital staff and the primary healthcare teams to ensure seamless delivery of care.

To work closely with consultant colleagues and academic institutions to lead on education, research and practice to continually develop an equitable, standardised, high quality palliative care service.

To develop and lead palliative care research programmes and academic activities.

To contribute to and where appropriate, lead new initiatives that are developments and innovations between the Trust, and relevant external agencies, locally, nationally and internationally.

In conjunction with the Matron and Lead Nurse for Palliative Care jointly manage the CNS team to ensure advanced clinical skills are developed.

To be the Senior Responsible Clinician for End of Life Care (CQC lead).

Main duties of the job

Clinical - Expert Practice:

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, RBFT Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.

To independently receive and make referrals and lead the management of the caseload for palliative care across health care settings (50% of the post is clinical case work).

To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence based knowledge in the management of patients with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.

Education, Training and Development:

To lead on formulating plans to meet the multi-disciplinary team training and education needs of staff, at an individual, team and organisation level.

To initiate new programmes of education and training to facilitate changes in practice.

To provide learning opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals via mentorship and supervision. This includes providing inter-professional support for staff of all disciplines.

To contribute to the development of the undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes locally and nationally in order to facilitate the advancement of structured, evidence based career progression in palliative care.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.

Working for our organisation

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.

Person specification

Clinical: Expert Practice

Essential criteria
  • To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, RBFT Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.
  • Undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy, and act as supervisor to other nurses completing their non-medical prescribing course.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of joint working with academic institutions ensuring the development of research programmes within the workplace.

Professional leadership and consultancy

Essential criteria
  • With matron / CGDoN, carry out regular nursing skill mix reviews and service benchmarking to ensure the established figures meet the needs of the service and the Trust.
Desirable criteria
  • PhD

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Florence Nightingale FoundationNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy will automatically close when 50 applications have been received.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alafiya Sachak
Job title
Director of AHPs and Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07810695546