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Location: Birmingham and Solihull
Hours: 20:00 – 08:00 hours (combination of day and night working*)
Contract Type: Permanent / Development Role
Salary: £36,277 to £43,683
(Progression to Band 7 £44,835 to £51,306 based on competencies)
Closing Date: 27 November 2025 **

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Are you passionate about delivering exceptional palliative care and ready to advance your clinical career?

At Birmingham Hospice, our patients are at the heart of everything we do. From our Inpatient Units to our Living Well Centres and bereavement counselling services, we are here for our community when they need us most.

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our innovative Specialist Palliative Urgent Response Service (SPUR). This role is perfect for a motivated and compassionate health professional eager to develop expertise in specialist palliative and end-of-life care.

As a key member of our dynamic team, you will rotate between triage and clinical duties, responding to urgent calls from patients, families, and professionals across Birmingham and Solihull. You’ll provide timely, expert care—often within a two-hour window—making a real difference when it matters most.

Development Opportunity

This is a developmental role with full funding and support to complete the Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) qualification within your first 12 months. You will gain advanced clinical skills and prescribing authority, enhancing your autonomy and impact.

* During the development phase of this role, you will work a mix of day and night shifts. Once you progress to Band 7, the role will predominantly be night shifts.

What We’re Looking For

A registered health professional (e.g., RGN or HCPC)
Passionate about palliative and end-of-life care
Able to work independently and collaboratively across systems
Committed to continuous learning and service improvement

Why Join Us?

Be part of a team that delivers compassionate care 24/7.
Help shape a new service, grow your skills, and make a meaningful difference to patients and families when they need it most.
Enjoy a generous benefits package
Retain NHS continuous service benefits (pension and annual leave)

To learn more about the role please read the job description

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Kellie Owen at kellie.owen@birminghamhospice.org.uk Telephone: 07980 929 792 or
Kerry Millard at kerry.millard@birminghamhospice.org.uk

💙 Come join us and together, we can make every moment matter 💙

** Please note: This vacancy may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications.

“After I saw the care my dad received at the hospice, I knew I wanted to work there.”

Barbara Bennett, a Healthcare Assistant at Birmingham Hospice’s Erdington site, was inspired to join the hospice after seeing the expert palliative care her dad, Frederick, received there.

Having worked in healthcare for 30 years, Barbara decided it was time she went into palliative and end of life care after helping to care for her father when he was diagnosed with heart failure, kidney failure and dementia.

Read Barbara’s story

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim.

We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life.