Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (full time)
- Job ref
- 150-MT2147-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Midhurst Community Hospital
- Town
- Midhurst
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum / pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead (Nurse)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you a compassionate and experienced nurse leader with a passion for palliative care? We’re looking for someone who shares our values to join the Midhurst Macmillan Service as a Clinical Lead. This is a unique opportunity to lead a dedicated multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, person-centred care to patients and families in their homes and communities. You’ll help shape the future of specialist palliative care, making a meaningful difference every day at the heart of the community.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead, you’ll provide visible and supportive leadership across our specialist palliative care service. You’ll use your advanced clinical skills to manage complex cases, mentor colleagues, and ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care. You’ll work collaboratively with partners across health and social care to deliver seamless, personalised support for patients and families. We’re looking for someone who leads with empathy, inspires confidence, and is committed to continuous improvement.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
- Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
- Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
- Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
- Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
- Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values - Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence - guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a key leadership role within the Midhurst Macmillan Service, where you’ll oversee the delivery of high-quality palliative and end-of-life care across the community. You’ll lead a skilled multidisciplinary team, providing expert clinical oversight and supporting staff through supervision, mentorship, and reflective practice.
You’ll be responsible for managing complex patient care, ensuring services are safe, responsive, and person-centred. You’ll contribute to service development, governance, and strategic planning, working closely with GPs, hospices, acute trusts, and voluntary sector partners to ensure joined-up care pathways and equitable access.
Your leadership will help shape the future of our service, championing innovation, inclusion, and excellence in care. If you’re passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative, values-led environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Adult) – current NMC registration
- Postgraduate level qualification or equivalent experience
- Advanced Physical Assessment (Masters module) or willing to work towards
- Independent/Non-medical Prescriber or willing to work towards
- Practice Assessor/Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional, clinical and leadership development
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree (or working towards)
- Community Specialist Practice qualification (District Nursing or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical experience, including case management and complex patient care
- Specialist experience in palliative and end-of-life care or long-term condition management
- Experience of clinical leadership at senior level, including line management and staff development
- Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
- Experience of partnership working across organisational boundaries (e.g. Primary Care, Acute, Social Care, Voluntary Sector)
- Experience of contributing to or leading service development, quality improvement or innovation projects
- Experience in governance processes (e.g. incident management, audit, complaints handling, risk assessment)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of drafting or implementing service plans, policies or standard operating procedures
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Car driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes, unless under Equality Act
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanna Stuttaford
- Job title
- Macmillan Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920715989
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