Job Title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Agency: Hospiscare
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

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Job summary

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a caseload of patients
• Provide holistic care, expert advice, and intervention
• Collaborate effectively with local GPs and Community Nurses to deliver an excellent Hospiscare service
• Why join Hospiscare?
• Keep your NHS pension
• Grow your skills with ongoing development opportunities
• Be part of a flexible, understanding and compassionate workplace
• Access a range of wellbeing and mental health support

Main duties of the job

As an ANP, you will use your expert palliative care skills and highly experienced clinical judgement to contribute to the excellent evidence-based specialist treatment and care the charity provides to patients with complex life-limiting illnesses. You will be responsible for assessing and diagnosing patients and planning and implementing their care to ensure optimum outcomes.  You will also assist the Community Cluster Team Leader with line management responsibilities and the daily clinical leadership of junior colleagues within the community team.  The role involves travel within the community setting, covering the Mid Devon area predominantly, and participating in the seven-day service provision to include on-call.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Advanced understanding of the complexities of working with individuals at times of distress and conflict
• Detailed understanding of the key issues relating to End of Life Care including national strategies and policy development
• Advanced understanding of theoretical nursing models and their impact on the delivery of care

Desirable

• Awareness of change theory and its application in practice

Skills

Essential

• Advanced skills as an expert practitioner, synthesizing complex information utilising an evidence based approach
• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly developed ability to manage challenging circumstances effectively, to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
• Highly developed ability to prepare, lead and evaluate formal and informal teaching and education programmes
• Developed ability to manage staffing resource effectively and efficiently
• Developed IT skills

Personal attributes

Essential

• Ability to lead and work as part of a team, prioritise workload and manage time effectively
• Ability to work autonomously, problem solve and act on own initiative
• Flexible and adaptable with the ability to respond positively in a rapidly changing environment
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Awareness of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all aspects of work

Additional requirements

Essential

• Able and willing to contribute to the 7 days/week and out of hours specialist palliative care service
• Able to travel and work throughout the area covered by Hospiscare
• Able to fulfil the physical and manual handling aspects of the role

Desirable

• Car owner and driver

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
• Degree in Palliative Care or degree level qualification in associated field
• Evidence of ability and commitment to work at Masters academic level or above, incorporating clinical development
• Advanced Communication Skills
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Desirable

• Qualifications and specific training
• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
• Degree in Palliative Care or degree level qualification in associated field
• Evidence of ability and commitment to work at Masters academic level or above, incorporating clinical development
• Advanced Communication Skills
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Teaching and mentorship/supervision qualification
• Leadership or management qualification
• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Advanced clinical assessment skills (MSc level)

Experience

Essential

• Extensive recent clinical experience of working within a palliative care environment
• Substantial experience of audit and standard setting
• Substantial experience and evidence of coaching/mentoring and of facilitating clinical supervision
• Significant experience of developing, teaching and evaluating education programmes

Desirable

• Experience of multi-agency partnership working in order to deliver service improvements

Closing Date: 30 July 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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