Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team based at Northwick park Hospital as a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist. You will be part of a dynamic team that strives to provide a responsive and high quality Specialist Palliative Care Service to our patients and Colleagues and in doing so support each other through team learning and supervision.

The Specialist Palliative Care Team provides advice, information, education and support to adult patients and their families during the last year of life. The team provide a day to day specialist palliative care nursing resource across the Trust and are supported by an established team of senior nurses and medical clinicians. It also contributes to the delivery of End of Life Care education and training for Trust staff.

The post holder will have a strong clinical role evaluating individual patient needs including assessment, history taking and treating patients.

This role has responsibilities across all clinical and educational sites within the Trust.

For further details/ informal visits contact:

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Ian Rudrum (Macmillan Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist) on 02088693681 or email ian.rudrum@nhs.net;



To provide a timely and responsive service for patients referred to the palliative care service. To assess, plan and manage a caseload of patients and their families in the field of palliative care working in partnership with other care providers. To identify, develop and monitor innovative opportunities for education and training for Trust staff regarding the care of patients within last year of life. To identify and establish opportunities to promote more effective multidisciplinary working and facilitate education towards improved care. To work autonomously and seek collaborative relationships with others across and within professional boundaries. To develop patient pathways and be responsible for developing the nursing service with key colleagues. To manage resources effectively including budget, human, financial and physical. To provide expert knowledge and advice on specialist palliative care, ensuring maintenance of clinical excellence underpinned by evidence-based practice.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.



Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

Northwick Park Hospital:

home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK

St Mark's Hospital:

an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

Ealing Hospital:

a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice

Central Middlesex Hospital:

our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.



We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.



To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the and Person Specification.