Job Summary
Band 8c Nurse Consultant and Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care

To lead, develop, contribute to and influence strategies within Trust, regionally and nationally to enable partnership development across palliative care services. To be the Clinical Lead for the palliative care department. To be responsible for development of a strategy for the professional development of all specialist palliative care nursing staff working within RBFT. To work autonomously in the assessment and development of clinical management plans across the inpatient and primary care settings and communicate recommendations verbally and in writing to consultants, GPs, hospital staff and the primary healthcare teams to ensure seamless delivery of care. To work closely with consultant colleagues and academic institutions to lead on education, research and practice to continually develop an equitable, standardised, high quality palliative care service. To develop and lead palliative care research programmes and academic activities. To contribute to and where appropriate, lead new initiatives that are developments and innovations between the Trust, and relevant external agencies, locally, nationally and internationally. In conjunction with the Matron and Lead Nurse for Palliative Care jointly manage the CNS team to ensure advanced clinical skills are developed. To be the Senior Responsible Clinician for End of Life Care (CQC lead).

Main Duties of the Job
Clinical - Expert Practice

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, RBFT Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.
• To independently receive and make referrals and lead the management of the caseload for palliative care across health care settings (50% of the post is clinical case work).
• To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence based knowledge in the management of patients with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.

Education, Training and Development

• To lead on formulating plans to meet the multi-disciplinary team training and education needs of staff, at an individual, team and organisation level.
• To initiate new programmes of education and training to facilitate changes in practice.
• To provide learning opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals via mentorship and supervision. This includes providing inter-professional support for staff of all disciplines.
• To contribute to the development of the undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes locally and nationally in order to facilitate the advancement of structured, evidence based career progression in palliative care.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.

About Us
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK. The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good. Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Details
Date posted: 13 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 193-7891537NCG
Job locations: Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AN

Job Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.

Person Specification
Clinical: Expert Practice
Essential

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, RBFT Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.
• Undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy, and act as supervisor to other nurses completing their non-medical prescribing course.

Desirable

• Experience of joint working with academic institutions ensuring the development of research programmes within the workplace.

Professional leadership and consultancy
Essential

• With matron / CGDoN, carry out regular nursing skill mix reviews and service benchmarking to ensure the established figures meet the needs of the service and the Trust.

Desirable

• PhD

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 (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AN
Employer's website: https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Contact details for questions about the job
Director of AHPs and Nursing: Alafiya Sachak
Email: alafiya.sachak@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
Phone: 07810695546