Job summary
- Main area
- End of life care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-2321
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Corss Site
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
End of life care clinical educator & Improvement team lead
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead and manage our End of Life care (EoLC) Education and Improvement Team. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic expert nurse educator to champion and improve EoLC across Imperial NHS Trust. This is a rewarding and varied post, working with, and training different staff groups across all specialities to improve outcomes for our patients and those important to them at the end of their lives.
This post would suit an experienced nurse educator who has excellent communication skills, a good understanding of end of life care and experience of managing a team. They will need to demonstrate flexibility to respond to a variety of competing priorities, to be self-motivated and to work autonomously as well as being part of a team. They will support staff to deliver compassionate end of life care in line with the Trust’s End of Life Care Strategy and National Ambitions. They will work closely with the Specialist Palliative Care team and the Trust’s education teams.
Main duties of the job
- To provide strategic leadership for driving high quality end of life care across the Trust
- To design and oversee delivery and reporting of strategic objectives for end of life care education and improvement
- Provide expert clinical and professional leadership championing and influencing high quality end of life care, including expert clinical advice
- Provide clinical leadership to the End of Life Steering Committee, steering and reporting against deliverable targets to improve end of life care
- Ensure collaboration with patients and stakeholders.
- Lead the development of policies and practices to guide and support best practice in end of life care
- Oversee and drive the delivery of end of life care education and training
- Oversee and drive the delivery of and spread of rigorous improvement practices to deliver high quality end of life care
- Lead audit, monitoring and data driven approach
- Provide clinical leadership for the patient safety incident response to end of life care.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current Clinical registration – NMC or HCPC and educated to postgraduate diploma /degree level
- Post registration clinical qualification(s) in speciality or relevant subject at level 7 e.g. Palliative and / or EoLC
- Recognised teaching qualification e.g. Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education
- Management certificate or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree or evidence of working towards one - in clinical education, advanced practice or a relevant specialty
- Quality Improvement qualification / fellowship
- Leadership qualification
- Project management course or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical practice experience in EoLC
- Experience of teaching and assessing others
- Experience of direct line management
- Experience of leading improvement and implementing change
- Experience of writing policy or guidelines
- Experience of writing policy or guidelines
Desirable criteria
- Experience of chairing and agenda setting clinical or non-clinical forums
- Experience of publishing or presenting academic or improvement work
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of EoLC and ability to perform clinical activities specific to speciality
- Teaching and coaching skills
- Ability to lead and manage a team
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Advanced written and oral communication skills
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
- Intermediate ICT skills, including knowledge of Microsoft 365
- Ability to interpret simple descriptive statistics
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tori Martin
- Job title
- Lead nurse for palliative & end of life care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917070183
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