Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Community Specialist Palliative Care

Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Community Specialist Palliative Care

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Main area Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Community Specialist Palliative Care

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

373-NBH0779-A RR

Site Hospice of the Good Shepherd

Town

Chester

Salary

£55,690 – £62,682 per annum

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

14/08/2025 23:59

Job Overview

We are looking to recruit a full time Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Specialist Palliative Care.

This exciting new role will clinically lead our integrated specialist palliative care team.

Working within the four pillars of advanced practice we require an ACP to support in shaping the future of palliative care in West Cheshire, not only for patients and families but also for our community teams delivering end of life care every day.

We want an experienced practitioner who will bring advanced clinical expertise and an evidence based approach to lead the way for improved integrated community-based specialist palliative care.

Main duties of the job

This role will provide team leadership in driving clinical workforce development and embed palliative care competencies across community services. The ACP will be required to develop enhanced clinical skills within the specialist team, facilitating clinical supervision, supporting autonomy and advanced clinical decision making. Immediate key objectives will be to lead on the expansion of non-medical prescribing, empowering specialist clinicians and the wider workforce to deliver timely and effective symptom management. This role will champion patient safety, continuous improvement and collaborative working with system partners.

With support from the specialist team and within the wider care group the ACP will lead on driving quality person centred outcomes, research and innovation. There will need to be a strong focus on clinical audit, service evaluation and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Our core values of care, compassion, commitment, communication, competence and courage are at the heart of everything we do. If you share the same values and have the skills and experience we\’re looking for, we\’d love to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, youll find something to suit you at CWP.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see documents to download section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: or by calling 01244 393100.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the essential criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer YES to the question: Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!

Person Specification Qualifications Essential Criteria

• Relevant Professional qualification RGN
• Primary degree
• Masters degree in Advanced Practice, Palliative Care or equivalent
• Non-medical prescriber V300
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics modules if not part of Masters qualifications
• Mentor qualification

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualification
• Clinical supervisor
• Community nursing specialist qualification

Knowledge and Expertise Essential criteria

• Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
• Demonstration of high level knowledge of multi-agency working (i.e. housing, social services, independent sector, etc)
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance.
• Quality improvement and change management
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a highly demanding environment
• Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
• Ability to work independently and make autonomous clinical decision within own area of competence
• Knowledge of community profiling and health-needs assessment to respond to community needs
• High level communication skills, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of audit / research and experience of analysing findings to improve practice.
• Clinical supervisor and ability to reflect on own practice

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and implementation of research
• Development and implementation of protocols and clinical guidelines
• Working with community development initiatives

Experience Essential criteria

• Extensive post qualification experience in Specialist Palliative Caree
• Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
• Supervision experience and the ability to support trainee advanced practitioners and practice nurses in their development and career progression
• Ability to work autonomously at advanced practice level and make expert clinical decisions to support the development of services and inform practice
• Ability and evidence to lead on related research and audit in relation to the development of advanced practice
• Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
• Negotiation and conflict management skills within the context of multi-agency working
• Evidence of multi-agency / professional working
• Demonstrates efficient experience in leadership of team/s in the context of multiagency working

Desirable criteria

• Advanced communication training
• Experience of leading patient involvement/patient feedback
• Experience in delivery of Nursing led services
• Recent experience in primary and/or community setting
• Relevant previous experience of working at an advanced clinical level.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Caroline Jones

Job title

Consultant Nurse & Clinical Director

Email address

Telephone number

07919692464

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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