Job summary
Make a difference where it matters most.
We are excited to introduce a brand new opportunity for two End Of Life Care Facilitators to join our fantastic team in Herefordshire. The Specialist Palliative Care Team is a well established team of two doctors and Clinical Nurse Specialists working across community and acute settings. These roles will work alongside this supportive team.
These pivotal roles are for someone who is driven by compassionate person centred care and wants to shape how EOLC is experienced across acute and community services.
As our EOLCF you will be at the heart of improving quality, consistency and confidence in EOLC. Working collaboratively with health and social care professionals, providers, families and stakeholders. You will support best practice, drive improvement and and help ensure people are able to live well right up to the end of life in the place that matters most to them. Some of this work will be done by being in embedding the Gold Standards Framework model across Wye Valley Trust.
These are newly created roles offering a genuine opportunity to influence, innovate, and leave a lasting legacy in a county known for its community values and collaborative working.
Main duties of the job
You will combine strategic thinking with hands on support, education and relationship building making the role ideal for someone who thrives on both leadership and meaningful human connection.
You will do this by expert clinical knowledge and effective communication and strategic decision making. You will focus on patient safety, staff wellbeing and continuous quality improvement to shape future services as part of the ICB palliative and EOLC strategy.
You will collaborate with colleagues in WVT , Integrated Care System and beyond to actively support and facilitate implementation of the GSF model within HCH and associate community settings. You will promote choice, comfort and dignity for those in the last year of life and their families. You will be able to promote best practice in Advanced Care Planning, facilitating compassionate and informative conversations and enabling discharge to preferred place of care and death.
If you are motivated by improving experiences, empowering others and being part of something that truly matters this could be the role for you.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Details
Date posted
03 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year PA pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share
Reference number
229-CS-7766911
Job locations
Hereford County Hospital
Stonebow Road
Hereford
HR1 2BN
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford County Hospital
Stonebow Road
Hereford
HR1 2BN
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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