Specialist Palliative Care Practitioner | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pa pro rata (plus HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 March 2026 |
| Location: | Walthamstow, E17 3HP |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7832527/395-WF012-26-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for apalliative care advanced practitioner band 7 to work in the COMPASS (Community Palliative Advice and support service) in Waltham Forest.Applicants will work as an effective and responsible member of the palliative care team, providing a consistently high level of specialist palliative care advice to patients with a life limiting illness. their families and carers throughout the illness journey. You will be required to autonomously managing a caseload of patients, undertaking a comprehensive assessment of individual patient’s palliative care needs, working with other teams and communicating effective recommendations to relevant professionals. You will be required to have knowledge of when to re-evaluate, transfer care or discharge from the service.You will work in collaboration with community teams in WF
Applicantswill be a Registered practitioner (NMC or HCPC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians, and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services within the community in a widely diverse locality. The Compass team provides a 7-day a week, 8-8 day service 365 days a year.
The post holder will require to work shifts, with the 8-8 period.
The post holder will be able to :
• To act as an expert nurse/Practitioner for patients and families and be a resource for advice and consultancy to empower other professionals to provide high quality palliative/end of life care.
• To work autonomously to provide holistic assessment and management for patients with complex problems, and their families, enhancing their quality of life and enabling them to make choices about their care. Monitoring, evaluating and reviewing palliative interventions.
• To act as a patients advocate and support informed discussions around choices concerning treatment options affecting quality of life and preferences around place of care and place of death.
• To work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting colleagues and respecting their contribution to meetings.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust.
• To contribute to quality initiatives and service development.
• To have a sound clinical knowledge on all aspects of palliative care and palliative medicine with awareness of the benefits and reactions to treatments and drugs used for symptomatic and therapeutic benefit, providing expertise in symptom control and offer appropriate advice as required
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by
the best people.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East
London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this
when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the
criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as
possible as some posts close early to limit the number of
applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable
to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility
under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic
salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not
included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI
during the recruitment process.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Mar 2026