Registered Nurse Team Lead

Job summary
At Eden Valley Hospice, we believe every person deserves compassionate, personalised care that honours what matters most to them. As a Team Lead Registered Nurse, you will play a key leadership role in delivering outstanding specialist palliative and end of life care while supporting, inspiring and developing our multidisciplinary team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate nurse leader who shares our values of Caring, Respect, Innovative and Inclusive. You will help shape and continuously improve services, ensuring patients and families receive safe, responsive and holistic care during some of the most important moments of their lives.

Working alongside the Quality and Safety Lead and the Practice development Lead, you will support service development, champion quality improvement, nurture professional growth, and contribute to a culture where everyone feels valued, heard and empowered.

This role is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which will be arranged and paid for by the hospice.

Please note that this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

The salary range shown is based on the Hospice's full-time equivalent (FTE) of 37.5 hours per week. For positions of 36 hours or lower, the salary will be calculated on a pro rata basis according to the contracted weekly hours.

Interview Date: Wednesday 11th November

Main duties of the job

• Lead by example in delivering exceptional specialist palliative care.
• Support the safe and effective day-to-day management of clinical services.
• Promote a culture of kindness, inclusion, continuous learning and professional excellence.
• Develop and support colleagues to achieve their full potential
• Drive quality improvement, innovation and evidence-based practice.
• Ensure patients, families and carers remain at the centre of all decision-making.
• Support effective use of clinical systems, outcome measures and data to enhance care delivery.

About us
Eden Valley Hospice is a forward-thinking, compassionate provider of specialist palliative and end-of-life care. We are a 10 bedded in patient unit based in Carlisle.

Our vision is to improve care for people in our communities who are dying or have conditions which will shorten their lives.

We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, person-centred care through our inpatient unit, Living Well and Outreach services, patient and family support, and Jigsaw, our dedicated childrens hospice. Collaboration is at the heart of our approach, and we work closely with healthcare providers across the region.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do:

Caring
We provide compassionate, person-centred care that recognises the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of patients and those important to them.

Respect
We treat everyone with dignity, kindness and sensitivity, valuing individual experiences, choices, cultures and beliefs.

Innovative
We embrace learning, research and continuous improvement to enhance patient outcomes and develop the future of hospice care.

Inclusive
We create an environment where diversity is celebrated, everyone belongs, and all voices are welcomed and valued.

We have a range of benefits available, including reamining in the NHS pension. Please click here for more information about our benefits:

Job responsibilities
Purpose of the Role
As a Team Lead Registered Nurse, you will play a key leadership role in delivering outstanding specialist palliative and end of life care while supporting, inspiring and developing our multidisciplinary team.

Working alongside the Quality and Safety Lead and the Practice development Lead, this role supports service development, champions quality improvement, nurtures professional growth, and contributes to a culture where everyone feels valued, heard and empowered.

Key Responsibilities
Clinical Leadership

• Provide visible clinical leadership, acting as a role model for excellence in specialist palliative care.
• Coordinate and support the nursing team to deliver safe, compassionate and effective care.
• Ensure care is holistic, responsive and tailored to the individual needs and preferences of patients and families.
• Promote independence, dignity, privacy and choice for every patient.
• Support the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care using evidence-based practice.
• Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality clinical documentation.
• Manage and triage advice line calls, providing guidance and appropriate signposting.
• Support safe medicines management in accordance with professional standards and organisational policies.
• Support workforce planning to ensure safe staffing levels and an appropriate skill mix.

People Leadership

• Create a positive, supportive and inclusive team culture where colleagues feel valued and empowered.
• Support the recruitment, onboarding and retention of a skilled, engaged and high-performing workforce.
• Undertake appraisals and development conversations that encourage learning, development and career progression.
• Support registered staff with NMC revalidation requirements.
• Promote staff wellbeing and psychological safety.
• Provide leadership, guidance and constructive feedback to staff and volunteers.
• Support the management of change in a positive and collaborative way.

Communication and Relationships

• Build strong relationships with patients, families, carers, volunteers, colleagues and external partners.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information with empathy, honesty and professionalism.
• Contribute effectively within the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated care.
• Develop collaborative relationships across health, social care and voluntary sector organisations.
• Ensure clear, accurate and timely communication, records and reports.

Education, Learning and Development

• Support a culture of continuous learning across the organisation.
• Deliver and participate in education, induction, mentoring and training programmes.
• Support students, learners and new colleagues in developing their confidence and clinical skills
• Share specialist palliative care knowledge and act as a resource for others.
• Maintain and develop your own professional knowledge and leadership capability.
• Contribute to the development of clinical policies, procedures and guidelines.

Quality, Governance and Innovation

• Champion high standards of clinical care, safety and professional practice.
• Support clinical audit, quality improvement and research activity.
• Monitor and manage clinical risk in collaboration with the clinical leadership team.
• Promote a culture of learning through incident reporting, reflection and improvement.
• Support implementation of outcome measures, service evaluation and data collection.
• Contribute to service development projects that improve patient and family experience.
• Ensure compliance with CQC standards and regulatory requirements.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience working within a multi disciplinary team
• Minimum three years' experience within palliative care or related specialist setting.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and supporting clinical teams.
• Experience of clinical supervision, teaching or mentorship.
• Experience of quality improvement, audit or service development activities.
• Experience assessing, planning, coordinating and evaluating care

Desirable

• Experience leading quality improvement or transformation projects.
• Experience of research activity or publication.
• Additional therapeutic or complementary care skills.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification or equivalent.
• Up to date knowledge of clinical practice and interventions
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

Desirable

• Post-registration qualification in palliative care, oncology or related speciality.
• Leadership or management qualification.

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong understanding of specialist palliative care principles.
• Leadership and management skills
• Ability to support change and service improvement.
• Good organisational and workload management skills.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice.
• Knowledge of governance, safeguarding, risk management and quality assurance.
• Understanding of information governance, confidentiality and GDPR requirements.
• Ability to build effective relationships at all levels
• Emotional resilience when supporting those facing loss and bereavement
• Ability to work under pressure in a demanding environment
• Effective IT skills
• Ability to contribute to a positive learning environment

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Eden Valley Hospice and Jigsaw Children's Hospice
Address: Eden Valley Hospice, Durdar Road, Carlisle, CA2 4SD, United Kingdom
Employer's website: (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Eve Robertson, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

Details
Date posted: 01 October 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £42,743 to £45,511 a year
Shift enhancements for nights, weekends and bank holidays
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: B0371-26-0020
Job locations: Eden Valley Hospice, Durdar Road, Carlisle, CA2 4SD, United Kingdom

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.