Community Nurse - Specialist Palliative Care Rapid Response Team

Job summary

Interview Date: Wednesday 27 August 2025

Community Nurse - Specialist Palliative Care Rapid Response Team

Salary: Band 6 AFC

Working Hours: Approx 150 hours over four weeks. Worked in 12 hours shifts inclusive of weekends and public holidays.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated individual to join our rapid response service. This post is suited to a senior nurse with experience caring for patients with life limiting illnesses who has skills in holistic palliative care assessment, symptom management and advanced communication.

You will be a key member of the rapid response team, and the wider multidisciplinary team working across Royal Trinity Hospices community catchment area supporting patients with urgent and complex specialist palliative care needs wherever they call home.

The Rapid Response Service is a 7-day service operating 08:00-20:00

During those hours the rapid response team senior nurse will respond urgently to referrals identified as appropriate for the service across Trinitys catchment area. They will carry out rapid specialist palliative care assessments and develop an immediate care and support plan for patients urgent and unaddressed specialist palliative care needs.

Main duties of the job

To support the functions of the Clinical Hub including:

• First contact team
• Specialist Community Nursing
• To provide nursing care within any existing care plans, and in accordance with the Clinical Nurse Specialist, and medical care prescribed by the GP

To provide specialist nursing care and support to the families and carers of individual patients in the place they call home across the Trinity catchment area, being sensitive to their changing physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs.

• To communicate and liaise with the patients usual care team including District Nurses, other palliative care support such as the 111 Roaming Service as well as the Clinical Hub Team Lead, reporting on the condition and needs of the patients and providing and maintaining clinical records, as necessary.

About us

• We match Agenda for Change/NHS terms and conditions for maternity, paternity and long-term sickness pay
• Length of service for those joining directly from another CQC regulated organisation (NHS, social care, hospice) is recognised in annual leave, maternity, paternity and long-term sickness pay
• A pension scheme is offered with employer contributions of up to 7.5%or a continuation of your existing NHS pension
• A generous 27 days annual leave increasing to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus bank holidays (any bank holidays worked will be given back in lieu)
• Cycle to work scheme and interest-free season ticket loans available
• Free eyesight test for DSE users and a contribution towards the cost of glasses
• 25% store discount in Trinity shops
• Life assurance cover
• Lots of opportunities to attend exciting and high-profile events e.g. a staff lottery to attend our regular biannual Gala dinner; participating in Royal visits, and the annual summer garden party
• Regular ballots for donated free tickets and prizes
• Access to courses of free counselling on the phone or face to face