Nurse Consultant

Location: Thanet, Canterbury, Ashford

Status: Permanent (both full and part-time considered)

Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum (DoE)

Closing date: 28/10/2025

Interview date: 11/11/2025

Shape the future of supportive Palliative Care in East Kent. Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for holistic, patient-centred care? Pilgrims Hospices is seeking Nurse Consultants to join our senior clinical leadership team.

In this pivotal role, you’ll have the autonomy to lead service development across both in-patient and community settings, influence strategic decisions, and deliver exceptional care to patients and families – making a lasting impact every day. You’ll work alongside leading Consultants in Palliative Medicine, with access to advanced learning and development opportunities.

Your expertise will help us deliver our vision: a community where people with life-limiting illnesses are supported to live well in comfort and with dignity until their final moments and support their loved ones at times most needed.

Key duties

As part of our clinical leadership team, our Nurse Consultants will also be supported by Speciality doctors, doctors in training and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. This clinical leadership team will:

• Deliver high-quality patient care with expertise and autonomy.
• Develop and maintain specialist areas of interest to support our clinical strategy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop policies and procedures.
• Lead and motivate teams to improve standards of practice.
• Contribute to research, evaluation and quality assurance initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and foster a patient-centred environment.

To be successful in this role your will need:

• Advanced palliative care practice experience.
• Strong leadership and team motivation skills.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice and quality improvement.
• Supervisory and educational experience required.

• Embody our values of Compassion, Openness, Dynamism, and Empowerment.

Our vision

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form

, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

• CompassionateWe treat everyone with compassion and care
• OpenWe communicate openly, honestly and effectively
• DynamicWe are dynamic, improving and developing our service
• EmpoweredWe empower people to achieve their outcomes

Our benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Access to the NHS pension scheme*
• Current pay rates benchmarked against NHS bandings
• Generous annual leave
• Sick leave from Day 1
• Eligibility for Blue Light Card discount scheme
• Multidisciplinary working within a diverse team
• Paid CPD hours and career development pathways
• Subsidised meals (from just £2.50!)
• Free on-site staff parking

*NHS pension scheme is available to staff who have contributed into the NHS pension scheme within 12 months before joining Pilgrims.

How to apply

Ready to take the next step in your career? Download the full job description and benefits summary, and apply today via NHS Jobs or via our webpage. We look forward to welcoming you to our passionate team.