Nurse Specialist - Children’s Palliative CareNHS
Job summary
The regional Children's Holistic Integrated Palliative Care Service (CHIPS) is seeking an experienced, compassionate and highly motivated Nurse Specialist to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. The CHIPS team delivers specialist palliative care across the North-East and North Cumbria forbabies, children and young adults (BCYA), and their families, with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, at the Great North Children's Hospital, we are a welcoming and supportive multidisciplinary team. This opportunity is for a dedicated individual with a passion for caring for BCYA and their families who may be receiving treatment with curative or palliative intent, be on an active transplant waiting list or be in the terminal phase and require end-of-life and bereavement care planning.
The Nurse Specialist will be expected to work autonomously, as part of the CHIPS multidisciplinary team as well as wider regional/national multidisciplinary teams. Delivering high-quality, holistic care alongside evidence-based assessment, advice, treatment, education and support to BCYA, their families, and other professionals across inpatient, outpatient and community settings. The role also offers development opportunities for both professional and service development, and the CHIPS team has access to specialist support from the psychology service
Main duties of the job
- Providing specialist paediatric palliative and end-of-life care across home, hospice, hospital and community settings.
- Provide specialist nursing support for complex clinical decision-making.
- Facilitate sensitive conversations with patients and families, including advance care planning and end-of-life discussions.
- Working in partnership with multidisciplinary teams to ensure that the care delivered is of the highest standard.
- Acting as a specialist nursing resource for symptom management and palliative care, monitoring and evaluating the effects of prescribed treatments, adjusting medication within agreed protocols in conjunction with the medical team.
Main Responsibilities
- Act as a highly specialist practitioner within the Paediatric Palliative Care Service.
- Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence based practice, policies and care pathways
- Support service improvement through audit, data collection, quality improvement initiatives and outcome monitoring
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, teaching and mentorship to nursing staff and students
- Ensure clinical practice is delivered in accordance with Trust policies, NMC standards, safeguarding requirements and information governance
- Actively contribute to multidisciplinary working and promote integrated, coordinated care across services and the region.
- Promote the importance of holistic care for BCYA with complex health conditions.
Job description
We would welcome applications for flexible working, including job shares, part-time hours, or hybrid working with another role. There is also a requirement for out of hours working with regular weekend on-call commitments and participation in an ad hoc overnight on-call service, with the service development plan aiming to extend this to a 24/7, 365 days a year service.
- Interview Date 2 September 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week - Full & Part Time Hours Available
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
CHIP's is a developing service, with the aim of being able to provide CYP and their families with access to 24/7 specialist palliative care in the near future.
Being based at GNCH, the nursing team can expect that the host organisation will provide the infrastructure, administrative support and governance required for individuals and the multi-disciplinary team to thrive within an ambitious and innovative culture.
Candidates should hold a clear UK drivers Licence.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse specialist as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to provide guidance and support based on advanced level knowledge to patients, carers and health professionals concerning a specific disease/condition.
Within the sphere of specialist practice:
- Demonstrates significant advanced knowledge and skills within speciality and sphere of practice.
- Take a lead role facilitating the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
- Support the development of nursing practice within the specialist field and contribute to the body of nursing knowledge.
- Have corporate identity as an expert within specialist area.
- Lead and provide training and education across the organisation in relevant area of practice.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust