# Macmillan Associate Specialist Palliative Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/macmillan-associate-specialist-palliative-care/c00dbb7b-3232-4c4a-99f7-a77d1addc250 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/macmillan-associate-specialist-palliative-care/c00dbb7b-3232-4c4a-99f7-a77d1addc250.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Stockport - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: 22.5 hours per week (working 7.5 hours per day) flexibly over 7 day period, flexing to work across hospital and community settings. - **Employment type:** Permanent: 22.5 hours per week (working 7.5 hours per day) flexibly over 7 day period, flexing to work across hospital and community settings.Part time - 22.5 hours per week (7 day service) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-07T16:12:17.140Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Stockport/Stockport_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialist_Palliative_Care_Service/Specialist_Palliative_Care_Service-v8074759 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8074759?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stockport.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Macmillan Associate Specialist Palliative Care - BAND 6 -22.5 HOURS - Permanent We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the established and dynamic multi-professional Specialist Palliative Care Team at Stockport NHS FT as a Band 6 Associate Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative Registered Nurse with a relevant degree or portfolio of evidence working at this level. In addition a specialist qualification or significant experience working  with patients with complex needs. Able to demonstrate evidence of recent professional development in palliative care with developed palliative care clinical practice experience, knowledge and skills. Applicants will have excellent advanced communication skills and experience of multi-professional team working. They must also have a commitment to the delivery of high quality patient care and ideally have experience of managing a clinical caseload. An ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, with excellent time management skills is essential. The service covers a 7 day rota, therefore flexible working is required to provide this. ### Main duties of the job Main Duties and Responsibilities The Post holder will: - Provide evidence-based specialist palliative care, advice and support to patients with a diagnosis of cancer or other life-threatening illness, and their carers.  Working collaboratively with multi-professionals across primary and secondary care and liaising with the Macmillan Specialist Care Nurses where appropriate. - Provide specialist palliative care advice, education and training to all members of the multi professional team across all care settings as the service requires. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will: - Under the supervision of the Specialist Palliative Care service, manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs. - Provide palliative care advice on symptom control, disease treatments, psychological and social issues to support a high standard of care to patients with complex needs. - Work collaboratively to ensure that patients with specialist palliative care needs and their carers are met, involving other members of the Palliative Care Multi-disciplinary Team as appropriate. - Attend and contribute to the palliative care weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting maintaining effective communication across the spectrum of professional carers. - Use effective and empathic advanced communication skills to support patients and carers when they are dealing with uncertainty and coping with bad news. - Work with other members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team to develop and provide appropriate training and education for the multi-disciplinary team and other healthcare professionals that improves the quality of palliative care provision. - Work with other members of the Specialist Palliative Care Team to implement initiatives such as local and national guidance that improve the quality of palliative care. - Ensure own professional development in line with appraisal and competency framework. - Maintain contemporaneous electronic and written record keeping of patient care records. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Multidisciplinary Team working - Knowledge of management and treatment of the patient with palliative care needs in line with local and national guidelines - Knowledge of research and evidence based practice - Awareness of current issues in palliative care ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of experience of dealing with patients with complex needs - Evidence of oncology or palliative care experience - Involvement in education and training - Multidisciplinary Team working **Desirable** - Managing a clinical caseload - Working in a community setting ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Ability to work autonomously - Clear vision of the role and commitment to the speciality - Time management skills - Highly motivated, innovative and practical - Ability to work in a multi-agency team **Desirable** - Ability to identify training needs and deliver education sessions - Leadership training and development ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - 1st Level RN - First degree or portfolio of evidence at this level - Specialist Qualification in Palliative Care - Evidence of recent professional development in Palliative Care **Desirable** - NMP V300 - Teaching Qualification ## Documents - [candidate pack (pdf, 310.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2576) - [applicant guide (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1756) - [our behaviours - care (pdf, 218.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1757) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 272.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10366314) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.