Nurse Consultant & Non-Medical Prescribing Lead
| Posting date: | 20 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £59,746.00 to £64,696.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £59746.00 - £64696.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX4 1RW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0269-26-0001 |
Summary
DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Expert Clinical Practitioner To be professionally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy in line with local/national policy and guidance and the NMC Code. To work as a Nurse Consultant using advanced clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, prescribing, planning, and evaluating interventions for patients with complex presentations. To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on pain and symptom management, psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical decisions at the end of life and to work in partnership with a range of health professionals to improve their education and skills in these areas. Develop and conduct skilled nursing intervention with patients with palliative care needs, assessing and addressing issues such as quality of life, futility, prognosis, withdrawing and withholding treatment and end of life decision making within an ethical framework. To undertake complex and sensitive holistic care assessments and plan, implement and evaluate care utilising advanced communication skills. To improve access to medication through the support and implementation of independent Nurse prescribing within the Outreach Specialist Nursing Service. Demonstrate negotiation and diplomacy skills and partnership working across the multi-disciplinary team To work in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams both internally and externally, with regards to safe, effective, timely admissions and discharges of patients. Support existing services to provide a co-ordinated multidisciplinary approach to the provision of palliative care for children including established community contacts such as General Practitioners and Childrens Community Nurses To identify areas for improvement and development which will enhance the paediatric palliative care provision for BCYP and their family/ carers. For the full job description please see the supporting documents.