Community Palliative Care – Rapid Response CNS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our community Palliative care Rapid Response Team

This team has been started and developed over the last 12 months, and is now flourishing, providing excellent specialist urgent complex palliative and end of life care to the population of Coventry in a timely 2 hour response

Coventry Palliative Care Team supports patients, families and carers with specialist palliative care needs, palliative support, and end of life care within the community setting. The post holder will be required to work as part of the integrated palliative care multidisciplinary team and will work with other health care professionals to provide specialist advice, support, and high-quality patient centred care to those affected by malignant and non-malignant disease at the end of life within a 2-hour rapid response. This will be provided 7 days a week 8am-8pm on a shift rota basis.

Main duties of the job

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About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.