Enhanced Practitioner - End of Life Care
Band 7
Main area Enhanced Practitioner Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 32.5 hours per week (Shifts will be 0800-2000 hours) Job ref 201‑26‑273‑B
Site North and East Cornwall Town To be confirmed Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/05/2026 23:59
Job overview
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is leading a bold transformation in Community and Palliative End of Life Care across the county. Our vision is simple yet powerful: to ensure people nearing the end of life experience a peaceful, dignified death in the place of their choosing.
Currently, Cornwall has one of the highest rates of hospital stays during the last 90 days of life, a clear signal that change is needed. We are creating a more patient‑centred, community‑based approach that brings compassionate care closer to home in the last year of their life or nearing the end of life.
Service initiatives
* Reducing unnecessary hospital admissions
* Delivering personalized care plans to support home‑based care
* A 24/7 Rapid Community Response and Care Service
* A dedicated End of Life Care phone line for public and professionals
* Strengthened voluntary sector partnerships and our Hospital@Home virtual service
We have opportunities in the East of the County available, offering flexibility in base location depending on service need and candidate preference with a requirement to cover Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to be a practitioner who can demonstrate a broad range of competencies and adapt to a wide variety of clinical circumstances. You will be part of a community team where your proven ability to make high‑level clinical decisions will aid patient recovery. You will work directly with Home First and community nursing teams, and collaborate with GPs, Cornwall Council, voluntary partners, secondary care, and community hospitals. This role is pivotal in supporting the implementation of the Ageing Well programme and the Embrace Community Intervention offer (CIO).
This position provides the successful clinician with a rare opportunity to help test and inform the development of advanced clinical roles within an evolving community service. Working alongside partner organisations, your skills and tenacity will support the integration of existing care providers to enhance the timely delivery of care to our population in Cornwall.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital‑based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience
* Current professional registration as an RN or AHP with NMC or HCPC
* Current Non‑medical Prescriber or willing to undertake the module
* Educated to degree level in a health‑related field
* Postgraduate teaching qualification or equivalent
* Experience of leadership and leading change or project implementation
Knowledge and abilities
* Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to frailty and long‑term conditions
* Understanding of Palliative care and deterioration clinical support required for patients in the last year of life.
Employer certification / accreditation
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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