Palliative Specialist Community Nurse

Job summary

Shore Medical is seeking a Palliative Specialist Community Nurse to provide specialist palliative and end-of-life care to patients within the Shore Medical PCN, ensuring holistic, patient-centred care that supports individuals and their families during the end-of-life journey.

The role involves working collaboratively with GPs, district nurses, community teams, and other healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality care, promoting dignity and choice at the end of life.

Main duties of the job

• Lead on the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of end-of-life care for patients within the PCN.
• Manage complex cases, providing specialist advice to primary care teams.
• Coordinate care with GPs, district nurses, hospices, and other community services.
• Support anticipatory care planning and facilitate discussions around advanced care planning.
• Prescribe and manage medications for symptom control (if non-medical prescribing qualification is held).

Please see attached Job Description for full details.

About us

Shore Medical is a GP Super Partnership with 6 practices across Poole and Bournemouth. We aspire to offer exceptional care to our 58,000 patients and are innovative in our approach to developing new teams and pathways to ever improve how general practice is delivered.

We have a friendly and supportive team of more than 200 staff, with over 40 GPs, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Nurses, Mental Health specialists and our range of administrative staff. We have a great social side to our team with Summer and Christmas parties, running and paddle boarding groups as well as many other events throughout the year.

The Practices in the Partnership are:

Lilliput Surgery

Poole Road Medical Centre

Wessex Road Surgery

Heatherview Medical Centre

Fernside Surgery

Parkstone Tower Practice

Situated in beautiful Dorset with the prestigious Blue Flag beaches of Bournemouth and Sandbanks, the Jurassic coastline and a wealth of attractions and countryside to visit we are lucky to be in such a fantastic area.

We offer:

1. Competitive salary
2. Friendly and supportive working environment
3. Continuous CPD
4. NHS Pension Scheme with Life Insurance
5. Free parking at most of the sites
6. Cycle to work scheme
7. Refer a Friend scheme
8. Summer & Christmas parties