Clinical Nurse Specialist - Bradford Early Identification Service
We are recruiting a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join a newly established Early Identification Service covering Bradford and the surrounding areas, helping support early recognition and care for people with palliative needs.
Main duties of the job
This role offers an exciting opportunity to join the Marie Curie Early Identification Service in Bradford, where you’ll use your nursing and palliative care expertise to shape better patient outcomes. Working within partnered GP surgeries, you’ll identify patients likely to be in their last year of life using the NHS Early Tool, make first contact, and support them through advance care planning, referrals, and signposting to community, voluntary or hospice services.
You’ll work autonomously, managing your own caseload, providing training and development, supporting incident investigations, and collaborating closely with hospice and community teams. The role requires strong communication, assessment, and planning skills, along with the ability to prioritise a varied workload. Regular community visits are essential, so the ability to drive and travel independently is required.
About us
Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness they’re likely to die from.
The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life. Right now, one in four people in the UK with a terminal illness do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives.
Job responsibilities
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our newly formed Early Identification Service based in Bradford and surrounding areas.
Salary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale, aligned with AFC 6 - £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
Contract/Hours: Part Time - 22.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term - ending 30th September 2027
Based: Bradford
Closing date: 23rd February 2026
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to join the Marie Curie team in Bradford in our Early Identification service. By sharing your nursing and palliative care expertise, you will have the chance to significantly influence and shape patient care in Bradford.
This service will be based in Primary Care within partnered GP surgeries in Bradford, where you will use the NHS Early Tool to search for patients who are not yet identified as having palliative care but are likely to be in the last year of life. You will be the initial contact with patients, offering support and the opportunity to complete advance care planning, and signposting to other services. You will visit patients in their own homes and refer them to either hospice, voluntary or community services.
In this key role, you will work autonomously and manage your own caseload. Your responsibilities will also include training and development, investigating incidents, working closely with hospice and community services to offer onward referrals and support for patients and their families and supporting the Healthcare Assistant for this service.
As a confident communicator and calm decision-maker, you will need experience and knowledge in palliative care and community services, along with well-developed advanced communication, assessment, and planning skills. The ability to prioritise your work while managing a variety of changing demands is essential. This role is based in primary care with regular travel to visit patients in the community.
Therefore, the ability to drive and access a vehicle insured for business use is essential.
What we’re looking for:
* Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
* Experience in Mentorship/Teaching qualification
* Advanced communication skills and ability to have sensitive and difficult conversations with patients
* Strong time management skills and the ability to proactively plan and schedule your own workload, to meet patient care requirements.
* Core hours will be 8.30 am - 4.30 pm; however there will also be a need for flexible working around the needs of the patients (out-of-hours appointments).
* Integration with Yorkshire place-based teams
* An understanding of specific needs of patients approaching end of life and in the terminal phase
* Driving license and access to your own vehicle and a willingness to travel within the region
* Cultural competence
What’s in it for you:
* Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
* Competitive policy for parental/sick leave
* Industry leading training programmes
* Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
* Defined contribution schemes for Pension
* Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
* Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
* Entitled to Benefit Hub Discount Scheme
* Life assurance for all employees
To apply, please upload your most recent CV demonstrating how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work for Marie Curie.
Additional information
At Marie Curie, our values are central to everything we do. They guide how we care for people, how we work together, and how we make decisions every day. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe for everyone—staff and volunteers alike—supportive, inclusive and rewarding. We provide care for all, and that commitment extends beyond the people we serve. We actively consider our impact on the planet, embedding sustainability into everyday decisions to create a lasting, positive difference for the individuals we care for and the world we share.
We believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive and fulfil their potential. Marie Curie is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, recognising both the social justice imperative and the strength a diverse workforce brings. We actively encourage applications from people of all cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. If you require any support, please contact us at recruitment@mariecurie.org.uk.
Every application we receive is personally reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team, and in return, we ask that your application authentically reflects you and your experience, perspective and voice.
This role will be subject to receiving an enhanced DBS criminal record check.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse on the NMC register (Adult)
* Clinical supervisor
* Non medical prescribing
Experience
* Experience working in Specialist Palliative Care
* Working with volunteers
* Participating in audit and research
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.
£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata per annum
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