Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Paediatric Palliative Care

About Acorns Children’s Hospice

At Acorns Children’s Hospice, we provide specialist palliative care for babies, children and young people with life‑limiting and life‑threatening conditions and we support their families through every step of their journey, and through transition.

Join us in making every moment matter. We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dedicated paediatric palliative care team.

• Provide expert autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children with highly complex, life‑limiting conditions
• Lead on advanced care planning, symptom management and urgent clinical decision‑making
• Build strong, trusting relationships with families, supporting them with sensitivity, honesty and compassion
• Act as a senior clinical leader, promoting safe evidence‑based child‑centred care
• Collaborate with hospitals, community teams and specialist services to ensure seamless personalised support
• Engage in research, audit and quality improvement to enhance care pathways
• Offer education, coaching and clinical leadership to colleagues across the service

• A qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner (or nearing completion of ACP training)
• Experience in paediatrics, palliative care, critical care, community care or a related specialty
• Confidence in managing complexity, with strong clinical reasoning and autonomy
• An exceptional communicator who can offer families reassurance, clarity and emotional support
• Commitment to delivering holistic child‑centred care aligned with Acorns values
• Passion for continuous learning, service development and collaborative working

• The chance to make a profound difference to children and families every day
• A compassionate, supportive and expert multidisciplinary team
• Protected time for CPD and strong clinical governance
• Opportunities to innovate, lead and shape the future of paediatric palliative care
• Career development through our Acorns Academy offering leadership, coaching, fundraising, clinical training and more
• A working culture rooted in kindness, growth and wellbeing
• Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
• Health cash plan, gym membership and equipment discount scheme
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  Work scheme – save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
• Wellbeing, legal and financial support
• Annual leave entitlement increases with length of service

Interviews are scheduled to be held on 24 March.

You must be eligible to work in the UK. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults so any successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for children and will be asked to provide two satisfactory references. Candidates will also need to provide evidence of immunisation against specific diseases or confirm willingness to receive necessary vaccinations.

As a UNICEF Gold Rights‑Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice. As an employee you will be a duty bearer for children’s rights and support all children to be rights holders.

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