Lead Nurse - Palliative and End of Life Care (XR09)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	10 Chwefror 2026
Cyflog:	£64,455.00 i £74,896.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£64455.00 - £74896.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	03 Mawrth 2026
Lleoliad:	Leeds, LS9 7TF
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9298-ONC-0621

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. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY This senior leadership post will support the delivery of high-quality palliative and end of life care for patients and families across the Trust, in line with NICE guidance NG142, NG31, QS12 & QS144, the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care 20212026, and the Service Specification for Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults January 2023. The role will also play a key part in supporting CQC inspection readiness for End of Life Care. The post holder will lead the Trust-wide development of palliative and end of life care services, working closely with the Director of Nursing, Chief Nurse team, Heads of Nursing, CSU triumvirate teams and the Lead Clinician for Palliative and End of Life Care to ensure a strategic, coordinated approach. The post holder will work in partnership with colleagues across the wider health community, including patient and public involvement organisations, Higher Education Institutes and the voluntary sector, to deliver the priorities of the Leeds Palliative Care Network End of Life Care Strategy. The role includes professional leadership for nurses and Allied Health Professionals delivering palliative and end of life care, ensuring evidence-based, high-quality care across patient pathways. You will also have line management and professional accountability for the Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist team (approximately 20 WTE), including recruitment, performance management, workforce planning, appraisals and delegated budget responsibility. . PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Represent the Trust on local, regional and national committees relating to Palliative and End of Life care Act on behalf of the Trust to lead the preparation for EOLC CQC inspections and lead on assurance reporting during inspections Using expert knowledge, practice and critical judgement skills continually seek to identify areas of care where current practices could be changed or modified to improve patient outcomes Undertake root cause analysis to investigate incidents and complaints and make recommendations and share learning relating to palliative and end of life care To synthesise information gained through local and national audits, complaints and local intelligence in order to lead changes in guidance, education and care delivery to ensure high quality care is delivered to dying patients and their families Be responsible for setting and monitoring standards of care in respect to the dying patient Prepare and present regular reports for the organisation on the development of palliative and end of life care services Provide visible, strong professional leadership for palliative and end of life care specialist nurses Provide effective leadership through the Heads of Nursing, CSU triumvirate teams Matrons, Clinical Educators and Clinical Nurse Specialists to ensure patients and their families receive high quality, responsive, appropriate nursing care in appropriate environments within all areas of responsibility Leads on ensuring provision of end of life care training across Nursing and AHP workforce Provide professional advice on end of life care and palliative care nursing to the Chief Nurse Team, Medical, Director, Director of Nursing Corporate, Director of Quality, Lead Cancer Clinician, AHP leads, Heads of CSUs, Matrons and Head of Patient Experience. Working with the Chief Nurse team and Matrons, acting as an expert nurse for palliative and end of life care, lead the development of palliative and end of life care nursing, ensuring that key drivers for service improvement and workforce development are integral to the process. Ensure robust success criteria and performance review processes are in place which identify the impact and added value of the palliative and end of life care nursing contribution. As part of the Palliative Care Team, actively contribute to delivery of the Trusts End of Life Care and Palliative Care service targets, working with Heads of CSUs, MDTs and Matrons to ensure implementation of national End of Life Care and Palliative Care standards and financial targets, supporting CSUs and MDTs to maintain and improve progress where necessary Support CSUs and MDTs in managing the clinical governance and risk management agendas in relation to palliative and end of life care services Work with the Director of Quality, Chief Nurse, Director of Nursing Corporate, Medical Director, End of Life Care Steering group and the Lead Clinician for Palliative and End of Life to ensure robust performance review processes are in place in relation to palliative and end of life care standards and service targets. Actively contribute to the development of the Leeds Palliative Care Network and its clinical pathways, ensuring a patient focus to the pathways and that workforce modernisation is integral to the pathway development Lead on the development of patient and public involvement strategies for palliative and end of life care services, maximising opportunities to engage with and forge partnerships with external organisations. Ensure processes in place to evaluate success. Lead the development of patient information strategies for palliative and end of life care services. Ensure systems in place to evaluate impact and added value of patient information.. Working with the Lead Palliative and End of Life Care Clinician and Director of Quality and Nurse Director, to ensure that new/emerging CQC and NICE/ national guidance measures are known to all MDT and CSU staff and that the measures are implemented to ensure consistent application of best practice for all palliative and end of life care patients. Working in partnership with the Director of Nursing Corporate and the Leeds Palliative Care and other health community partners, develop strategic direction for palliative and end of life and nursing across the health community Represent the Trust at the Leeds Palliative Care Network Group Yorkshire and other relevant cancer care groups. Lead the work in palliative and end of life care, working with Triumvirate teams, Matrons and clinical Educators to ensure that they contribute to the development of palliative and end of life services for patients and their families. Lead on developing through research and audit robust outcome measures that can identify added value and contribution to the Trusts achievement the national end of life care agenda Raise concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice or wrong doing by following the LTHT Whistleblowing policy and supporting processes. Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar with and adheres to, the LTHT safeguarding policies. Undertake duties on other wards or departments as and when required by service demands or patient need. Participate in own and others appraisals Undertake mandatory and priority training within the required time scales To fulfil the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration Actively promote and use the Leeds Improvement method to improve the quality and safety of the service Work closely with Research and Innovation to promote research, disseminate outcomes and findings to support evidence-based practice. . THE LEEDS WAY VALUES Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post: Commitment to collaborative team working across disciplines, specialities, teams, groups and the Trust Commitment to ensure the Trust plays a full part in contributing to Leeds health community reconfiguration programmes including tackling health inequalities Commitment to ensure high quality evidence-based care is delivered