Nurse Consultant / Associate Nurse Consultant (Adult Palliative Care)
Band 8a / 8b
- Growing the Friarage & Community Services L3
- Band 8a / 8b
- Permanent
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- 328-FCS-7580514
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Middlesbrough
- £55,690 - £74,896 per annum
- Yearly
- 26/11/2025 23:59
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Consultant for Adult Palliative Care/Associate Nurse Consultant in Adult Palliative Care.
This role will be part of Community and Neighbourhood Health Clinical Service Unit (CSU) team working in close collaboration with the Deputy Head of Nursing, Lead Nurse for SPC and EOLC, Clinical Director and Service Manager.
Are you a clinical expert who puts the clinical and holistic needs of our patients first to ensure safe, high quality and effective care?
Are you a passionate advanced practitioner with a specialist interest in Adult Palliative Care?
You will provide strong and effective clinical leadership to the specialist palliative care nursing team across the community and acute services. You will act as an expert practitioner providing advice and consultancy for the management of patients with complex specialist palliative care needs.
You will work with patients & staff, evaluating existing services and providing innovative and novel models of care. You will act as an exemplary role model for expert clinical nursing practice, demonstrating high professional standards, values and attitudes with a patient centred approach.
Within South Tees we have an ambitious strategy to improve palliative and end of life care for the patients we serve. You will be supported in your role by senior nursing & medical staff who are committed to delivering a high-quality service alongside supporting the development of your nursing career.
Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.
Main duties of the job
This role will be at an advanced clinical level in direct delivery of high quality palliative care making critical clinical decisions based on expert knowledge and clinical assessment skills. Working across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP SPC teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience, supporting Palliative Medicine Consultants with day-to-day clinical activity.
The postholder will provide expert clinical care to patients with specialist palliative care needs via direct assessment and also by providing expert knowledge and assistance to clinical teams across the trust. To provide the highest standard of expert holistic care for patients through utilisation of advanced clinical skills and advice in the assessment and management of patients, working autonomously and with the multi-disciplinary team to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
This role may be considered as a development role as a Associate Nurse Consultant Band 8a depending on skills, qualifications and experience with the aim of progression to Nurse Consultant Band 8b.
Working for our organisation
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills (Band 8a & Band 8b)
Essential criteria
- • High level of interpersonal and communication skills
- • Expert clinical skills and history taking
- • Evidence of expertise and competency in relation to nursing practice appropriate to post.
- • Autonomous Practitioner
- • Proven Leadership skills
- • Time management skills
- • Excellent organisational skills
- • Ability to prioritise workloads
- • Expert knowledge, clinical skills and experience in specialist palliative care field
Qualifications & Training (Band 8a)
Essential criteria
- • Registered Adult Nurse with current NMC registration
- • 1st Degree in nursing practice
- • Masters degree relevant to professional nursing practice or working towards
- • Post graduate certificate (level 7) in a relevant field
- • Physical Assessment and Disease Management Skills Course
- • Independent Nurse Prescribing
Experience (Band 8a and Band 8b)
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience working within the specialist palliative care environment
- • Experience of working autonomously
- • Experience of assessment, diagnosis and care planning within a complex care setting
- • Experience of delivering formal teaching programmes
- • Experience of innovation in practice
- • Experience of leading audits and implementing these changes in practice
Qualifications & Training (8b)
Essential criteria
- • Registered Adult Nurse with current NMC registration
- • 1st Degree in nursing practice
- • Advanced Communication Skills training
- • Masters degree relevant to professional nursing practice
- • Post graduate certificate (level 7) in a relevant field
- • Physical Assessment and Disease Management Skills Course
- • Independent Nurse Prescribing
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Truman
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care
- Email address
- sarah.truman1@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 07411695760
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