Community Nurse – Palliative Care Team
Are you a dedicated and empathetic nurse passionate about making a difference in people’s lives? UHCW is seeking a Community Nurse to join our Palliative Care Team, delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care to patients with life‑limiting conditions in their homes.
Responsibilities
* Provide holistic palliative care in the community.
* Work closely with a range of professionals to ensure seamless, coordinated care.
* Support patients and families with compassion and dignity.
* Sign in/out all equipment in logbook when taking from the store‑cupboard (e.g. syringe drivers).
* Clean & document return of equipment in the store‑cupboard.
* Safely dispose of sharps bins / clinical waste as per policy.
* Ensure patient deaths are recorded in required documentation book.
* Safely administer medication to provide symptom control to palliative patients as per Trust policy.
* Liaise with GPs and other members of the multidisciplinary team to always ensure seamless care, including ordering medication, authorisation etc.
* Liaise with pharmacies to ensure medications are delivered in a timely manner and ensuring patients always have medications.
* Holistic assessment of patients’ needs, recording those wishes that are important to them.
* Complete the Continuing Health Care team Fast‑track assessment to ensure funding or further referral.
* Provide regular reassessment of palliative support patients to ensure needs are being met.
* Documentation and care planning, including use of Individual Plan of Care for the dying person and IPOS (Initial and weekly).
* Escalate any concerns to senior nurse.
Requirements
* Post‑preceptorship experience.
* Current valid UK NMC registration.
* Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
* Must provide an immunisation and vaccination report from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
* Must be able to work under the direction of the senior clinician/coordinator on shift.
* Note: This post is not suitable for applicants who are required to undertake the OSCE training programme.
Closing Date: This advert closes on Monday 20 Oct 2025.
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