We’re looking for a Weldmar Community Nurse to join our multi-skilled Specialist Hospice at Home Service on a bank contract.
You’ll be working flexibly and collaboratively with the multi-skilled team, other clinical colleagues and external agencies, as and when required. As such you’ll be integral to ensuring an agile and responsive service based on patient needs in the West, South and North Dorset.
You’ll see patients, carers and families benefiting from receiving care most appropriate to them, as determined on a daily basis. They have access to a range of support from those working within the hub, other clinical specialists from our multi-disciplinary team, and from our patient and family support services, as well as to hands on care if required to enable them to live as well as possible at home.
You’ll use your significant post registration experience as a registered nurse, to complete ongoing assessments of our patients to ensure the delivery of quality holistic evidence based palliative care.
You’ll have the time to assess the complex needs of our patients and their loved ones, and to take steps which will make a positive difference to them when it matters most. You will also play a key role in providing advice, coaching and guidance to your colleagues within the hub, as well as to other health professionals ensuring the delivery of outstanding end of life care in the community.
The core hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm, with an out of hours weekend cover for the advice line
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check is required for this role, please refer to the job description
