Palliative Care Staff Nurse - Huntingdon

Pacomarine Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a dedicated staff nurse focused on delivering palliative care. The role involves high-quality support, training delivery, and collaboration with colleagues. Candidates must be NMC or HCPC registered, with additional training in palliative care being essential. This is a permanent part-time position with a salary between £31,049 and £37,796 per year, offering a chance to make a meaningful impact in patient care during critical times.

Qualifications

• Can demonstrate an understanding of holistic palliative care values.
• Multi-disciplinary Team working.

Responsibilities

• Assess and reassess needs of patients with specialist palliative care needs.
• Provide effective evidence-based nursing care.
• Exercise compassionate counselling skills.

Skills

Understanding of holistic palliative care values

Multi-disciplinary Team working

Education

NMC or HCPC Registered Professional

Additional training in palliative care or other specialty

Job description

Job Summary

Palliative Care can be offered to patients when their illness can no longer be cured. This is not only for people with cancer but also other illnesses like heart failure and respiratory diseases.

Palliative Care shifts the focus from “getting better” to “feeling well” whilst managing an incurable illness; optimising quality of life and then supporting patients and their families as they approach the end of their lives and are dying, focusing on dignity and comfort.

Main duties of the job

• High quality palliative care support and interventions across the Acute Trust and Community.
• Support the delivery of training to specialist and non‑specialist colleagues across the Trust to support best practice in palliative and end of life care.
• Work collaboratively with generalist colleagues to support excellent care both directly and indirectly using influencing, situated learning and role‑modelling.
• Work within your scope of practice, seeking advice from senior expert colleagues in complex patient care and delivering the plan of delegated care to the highest standard.
• Opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced staff nurse to develop into a more specialist field, while delivering high quality safe and effective palliative care support and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Assess and reassess the needs of patients with specialist palliative care needs under the guidance of the senior Specialist Palliative Care nurse on duty. Within own scope of practice and the palliative care framework, plan, implement and evaluate individualised holistic nursing care.
• Provide effective evidence‑based nursing care to the highest standard delegated by the senior Specialist Palliative Care Nurse on duty.
• Be confident and competent in all areas of palliative nursing practice, understanding own limitations.
• Participate in audit for clinical practice and assist with data collection for research.
• Exercise compassionate counselling skills and act in an advisory and guiding role in all aspects of nursing care for both patients/clients and members of the team.
• Play an active role in best practice, ensuring hygiene and cleanliness, disseminating good practice; participating in audits; benchmarking; raising awareness of service users; challenging colleagues.
• Ensure accurate and clear records are kept according to NMC Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping.
• Comply with the NMC codes of practice and understand scope of practice when working as a staff nurse within a specialist team.

About Us

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.

Details

Date posted: 18 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year pa pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part‑time

Reference number: 176‑F‑7385690

Job location

Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Hinchingbrooke Park
Huntingdon
PE29 6NT

Employer details

Employer name: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Hinchingbrooke Park
Huntingdon
PE29 6NT

Employer's website: https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk/

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC or HCPC Registered Professional
• Additional training in palliative care or other specialty

Desirable

• Specialist module in palliative field, or working toward, or willing to achieve within agreed fixed time period.
• Communication Skills Training or prepared to undertake

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Can demonstrate an understanding of holistic palliative care values
• Multi‑disciplinary Team working

Desirable

• Up to date evidence of 4 Pillars of Practice
• Managing people

Knowledge

Essential

• Holistic Palliative Assessment
• Legislation including knowledge of Mental Capacity and Care Act

Desirable

• Palliative care symptom control and ability to identify palliative emergencies
• Up to date knowledge of palliative care guidance and best practice local and national initiatives
• Ethical dilemmas and how to approach them

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.