Band E £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata
Hours: To be agreed in line with service requirements
Fixed term for 6 months

Make your work count!

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a key clinical role within our community palliative care service, helping us ensure that patients and those closest to them receive the right response, at the right time, according to their clinical need.

As our Community Palliative Care Clinical Assessment, Prioritisation and Advice Nurse, you will provide timely clinical assessment of patients referred to Rowcroft’s Community teams.

Using your specialist palliative and end-of-life care knowledge, clinical judgement and decision-making skills, you will review referrals and available clinical information, assess the level of need and potential risk, and determine the most appropriate response. This will include identifying patients whose needs require a more urgent specialist response, alongside those who may benefit from advice, guidance, signposting or support from another appropriate service.

You will work closely with our Community CNS team, other Rowcroft teams and wider multidisciplinary colleagues, supporting effective prioritisation and helping to ensure our specialist clinical resource is directed towards patients with the greatest level of need.

A key part of the role will be communicating with patients, those important to them, referrers and other healthcare professionals. You will provide clear clinical advice and guidance, gather further information where required andsupportsafe, coordinateddecision-making.

This is also an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of how we respond to increasing demand for community specialist palliative care, helping us develop consistent, responsive and patient-centred approaches to clinical assessment and prioritisation.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role, you will be an experienced registered nurse with strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills and experience of caring for people with palliative and end-of-life care needs.

You will be confident in making autonomous clinical decisions, recognising deterioration and changes in need, assessing risk and determining an appropriate clinical response.

You’ll bring:

• Strong knowledge and experience of palliative and end-of-life care
• Excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Confidence in prioritising patients according to clinical need and risk
• The ability to recognise deterioration and situations requiring an urgent response
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to have sensitive conversations with patients and those important to them
• Confidence in providing clinical advice and guidance to colleagues and other health and care professionals
• The ability to work collaboratively with CNSs and the wider multidisciplinary team
• A calm, organised approach when balancing competing clinical priorities
• A commitment to providing compassionate, individualised care
• An interest in improving services and finding practical solutions to changing demand

You will be comfortable working with a degree of autonomy while knowing when to seek further specialist advice or escalate concerns.

What’s in it for you?

This is an opportunity to use your clinical experience in a role where your judgement and decision-making can make a real difference to both patients and colleagues.

You will have the opportunity to work at the heart of our community service, developing your skills in advanced clinical assessment, prioritisation, coordination and advice while working alongside experienced palliative care professionals.

Importantly, you will help us make the best use of our specialist resources, ensuring patients with changing, complex or urgent needs are identified and responded to appropriately.

The post will also give you the opportunity to influence and help shape how we deliver community palliative care as we explore new ways of responding to demand and ensuring our services remain safe, responsive and sustainable.

If you are an experienced nurse who enjoys clinical decision-making, working collaboratively and finding the rightresponsefor patients, we would love to hear from you.

Working at Rowcroft Hospice

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year. Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.

Take a lookhereto find out what our team says about working at Rowcroft and theemployee benefitson offer.

For more Information

Please see below to download the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Karenne Weaver, Head of Community and Hospice at Home, on 01803 217638 orkarenne.weaver@rowcrofthospice.org.uk

Closing date: 11:59pm Sunday 6 December 2026

Interview date: Thursday 17 December 2026