Job summary
Beaumond House Hospice Care delivers personalised, high-quality end of life care across hospice, home, and community settings. Patients and families remain at the centre of everything we do. All staff are expected to uphold dignity, safety, confidentiality, and the highest standards of physical, psychological, and spiritual care.
This role sits within the End-of-Life Care Together Alliance and operates across organisational boundaries to deliver safe, coordinated, and person-centred care for people in North Nottinghamshire.
Job title: Hospice at Home Lead
Reports to: Service Lead for the Integrated Hub and Hospice at Home
Hours:30 hours
Work Pattern: Across 4 days, worked flexibly Monday - Friday
Location:Mansfield (1 post), Ashfield (1 post) and Bassetlaw (1 post) with travel across North Nottinghamshire to meet organisational needs
We'll be reviewing applications as they come in, so don't delay applying! Although the closing date is 28 February 2026, we may close the vacancy early if we find the right candidates. Well be in touch with shortlisted applicants.
Main duties of the job
The Hospice at Home Lead provides senior clinical and operational leadership within the Hospice at Home team.
You will uphold and promote the philosophy, values and standards of Beaumond House Hospice Care.
The Hospice at Home Service delivers flexible, holistic support for patients in their own homes. This includes personal care, emotional and spiritual support, needs assessment, advanced care planning, end-of-life care, and ongoing support for carers and loved ones.
You will lead day to day coordination of the service and team and ensure safe, effective and compassionate care so patients receive support to die at home where this is their preferred place of care.
About us
Beaumond House Hospice supports patients and their loved ones to live as fully as possible across North Nottinghamshire. Ensuring our communities receive the care and comfort they need, free of charge, when every moment matters. Our Care is provided in people's homes across our communities and at the Hospice in Newark.
We treat every person with respect. We deliver compassionate, professional care that supports physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. We look for staff and volunteers who protect dignity, safety, and confidentiality.
Beaumond House Hospice Care is a registered charity. We provide four In-patient beds, Day Therapy, and Hospice at Home Care. Hospice at Home supports people with palliative and end of life care needs, often in the last weeks and months of life. Our nurses and health care assistants provide assessment, personal care, emotional support, advice, and advance care planning in the persons preferred place of care.
We are contactable 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, to provide a friendly ear, general information or to signpost patients, relatives and carers to appropriate resources and services.
Outstanding Hospice Care, enabling our local communities to live well and die well
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
Clinical and Service Leadership
Team Management
Service Coordination and Partnership Working
Work closely with the Integrated Hub, hospice In-patient services, GPs, community nursing, secondary care and End of Life Care Together Alliance partners.
Quality, Safety and Governance
Education and Development
Service Development
General Duties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
Clinical and Service Leadership
Team Management
Service Coordination and Partnership Working
Work closely with the Integrated Hub, hospice In-patient services, GPs, community nursing, secondary care and End of Life Care Together Alliance partners.
Quality, Safety and Governance
Education and Development
Service Development
General Duties
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience, including work at a senior level.
- Experience in palliative and end of life care, or strong commitment to this field.
- Proven ability to lead and coordinate a clinical team.
- Experience of supervising and supporting staff.
- Experience of implementing changes in clinical practice based on evidence, audit or inspection findings.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Strong assessment and clinical decision-making skills, including in complex situations.
- Ability to work across organisational boundaries with health, social care and voluntary sector partners.
- Good understanding of clinical governance, risk management and safeguarding.
- Confident use of electronic clinical records and IT systems.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and respond to changing service needs.
- Flexible, reflective and able to build sensitive, empathetic rapport with others.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in palliative care, community nursing or a related field.
- Leadership or management qualification or training.
- Teaching or assessing qualification, or evidence of teaching experience.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience, including work at a senior level.
- Experience in palliative and end of life care, or strong commitment to this field.
- Proven ability to lead and coordinate a clinical team.
- Experience of supervising and supporting staff.
- Experience of implementing changes in clinical practice based on evidence, audit or inspection findings.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Strong assessment and clinical decision-making skills, including in complex situations.
- Ability to work across organisational boundaries with health, social care and voluntary sector partners.
- Good understanding of clinical governance, risk management and safeguarding.
- Confident use of electronic clinical records and IT systems.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and respond to changing service needs.
- Flexible, reflective and able to build sensitive, empathetic rapport with others.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in palliative care, community nursing or a related field.
- Leadership or management qualification or training.
- Teaching or assessing qualification, or evidence of teaching experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
