Job summary
The Sidmouth Hospice at Home Community Nursing Team deliver 24-hour specialist end of life care to patients and their families during the last 12 months of life in the Sid Valley.

The successful candidate will be welcomed in to the team, working alongside our charity, Sidmouth Hospice at Home, and will be based in the charity's building in Sidford.

Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.

About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).

Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people's own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

It's never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.

Details
Date posted: 15 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 185-1381-14480
Closing date: 28 October 2026

Job description
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Lead position for the Hospice at Home Team is a rare, exciting and fulfilling opportunity. The Clinical Lead provides expert clinical leadership for the team and service, practicing and role modelling professional excellence, and operational oversight to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred end-of-life care within the Sid Valley community. Working as part of a neighbourhood and multidisciplinary team approach, the post holder supports and work alongside our health and social care colleagues in the community and acute sectors for people to receive care in their preferred place of residence, maximising independence and quality of life, and quality end of life care and support.

The service provides specialist palliative care 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with shifts covering 08:00-16:00, 10:00-18:00 and 12:00-20:00. After 20:00 hrs, Sidmouth Hospice at Home Nurse Specialists are part of the on-call service, and respond to our patients who need specialist end of life care and carer support, and avoiding unnecessary and unwanted hospital admissions.

As the Clinical Lead Specialist, you will be required to work in core hours, Monday to Friday, to provide Specialist Clinical Leadership, and non-medical prescribing for the team and patients. Since its beginning in January 2021, the service has enabled 95% of our patients to be cared for by their families at home as their preferred place of death.

The role combines advanced clinical practice with leadership responsibilities, spending approximately 80% of time providing direct clinical support through patient contact, complex case management, triage, clinical supervision, and audit activity, and crucially, non-medical prescribing. The remaining 20% is focused on operational and managerial duties, including safer staffing, rostering, line management, service development, and quality improvement.

As a visible and accessible clinical leader, the post holder will act as a key point of contact for complex clinical decision-making, escalation management, and professional support to the wider team. Responsibilities include undertaking holistic assessments, care planning, prescribing within scope of practice, coordinating interventions, and evaluating outcomes to ensure the highest standards of care.

The post holder will lead on clinical standards and workforce development within the Hospice at Home Team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, professional development, and evidence-based practice. They will support the education of pre- and post-registration learners, contribute to multidisciplinary working, and play an active role in service improvement projects and innovation as delegated by Nursing Leads and Senior Operational Managers.

Through effective leadership, collaboration, and communication, the post holder will ensure the Hospice at Home Service delivers its core objectives within allocated resources while promoting excellence in patient care, staff wellbeing, and service performance.

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours
Interview Date: 26th November 2026

For further information please contact: Martine Dack Community Palliative Care and Dementia Services Operational Manager on 07599 233518 martinedack@nhs.net

Benefits
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.

This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.

Looking after you is important to us.

We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.

If you're starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.

You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.

Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers.

You will also have access to other benefits including:

• National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
• Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
• Car lease schemes.
• The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
• Cycle to work scheme

These are just a few of the benefits available if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.

Person Specification
Essential: See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable: See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description

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.

Employer details
Employer name: Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Sidmouth Hospice at Home, Church Street, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 9RL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://royaldevon.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Recruiter, Royal Devon NHS Recruitment Team, rduh.recruitment@nhs.net, 01392403642

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.