Clinical Nurse Specialist - Bradford Early Identification Service

We are recruiting a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join a newly established Early Identification Service covering Bradford and the surrounding areas, helping support early recognition and care for people with palliative needs.

Main duties of the job

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join the Marie Curie Early Identification Service in Bradford, where you’ll use your nursing and palliative care expertise to shape better patient outcomes. Working within partnered GP surgeries, you’ll identify patients likely to be in their last year of life using the NHS Early Tool, make first contact, and support them through advance care planning, referrals, and signposting to community, voluntary or hospice services.

You’ll work autonomously, managing your own caseload, providing training and development, supporting incident investigations, and collaborating closely with hospice and community teams. The role requires strong communication, assessment, and planning skills, along with the ability to prioritise a varied workload. Regular community visits are essential, so the ability to drive and travel independently is required.

About us

Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement.

Job responsibilities

This service will be based in Primary Care within partnered GP surgeries in Bradford, where you will use the NHS Early Tool to search for patients who are not yet identified as having palliative care but are likely to be in the last year of life. You will be the initial contact with patients, offering support and the opportunity to complete advance care planning, and signposting to other services. You will visit patients in their own homes and refer them to either hospice, voluntary or community services.

In this key role, you will work autonomously and manage your own caseload. Your responsibilities will also include training and development, investigating incidents, working closely with hospice and community services to offer onward referrals and support for patients and their families and supporting the Healthcare Assistant for this service.

As a confident communicator and calm decision-maker, you will need experience and knowledge in palliative care and community services, along with well-developed advanced communication, assessment, and planning skills. The ability to prioritise your work while managing a variety of changing demands is essential. This role is based in primary care with regular travel to visit patients in the community. Therefore, the ability to drive and access a vehicle insured for business use is essential.

What we’re looking for:

• Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
• Experience in Mentorship/Teaching qualification
• Advanced communication skills and ability to have sensitive and difficult conversations with patients
• Strong time management skills and the ability to proactively plan and schedule your own workload, to meet patient care requirements.
• Integration with Yorkshire place-based teams
• An understanding of specific needs of patients approaching end of life and in the terminal phase
• Driving license and access to your own vehicle and a willingness to travel within the region
• Cultural competence

What’s in it for you:

• Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
• Competitive policy for parental/sick leave
• Industry leading training programmes
• Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
• Defined contribution schemes for Pension
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
• Entitled to Benefit Hub Discount Scheme
• Life assurance for all employees

To apply, please upload your most recent CV demonstrating how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work for Marie Curie.

Additional information

At Marie Curie, our values are central to everything we do. They guide how we care for people, how we work together, and how we make decisions every day. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe for everyone—staff and volunteers alike—supportive, inclusive and rewarding.

This role will be subject to receiving an enhanced DBS criminal record check.