Palliative Care Nursing Assistant
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Morpeth, NE61 1JXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 October 2026
5 days leftJob description
Various hours considered, to work within the Palliative Care Support Team based in Northumberland. We are looking to recruit on a permanent basis, mot...
- Provide care as planned by the District Nurse or Macmillan Nurse for patients with palliative care needs and or at the end of life.
- Monitor patient's condition during a visit or shift and report accurately any change or deterioration to either the Team Lead, District Nurse or Out of hours nurses.
- Deal with highly distressing situations when a patient dies during a visit or shift following Trust policies for the confirmation of expected death out of hours and reporting appropriately during office hours.
- Provide family and carers with emotional, physical and spiritual support during planned interventions.
- Provide nutrition to patients presenting food and fluid in an acceptable way depending on patient's needs and capabilities.
- Provide patient's mouth care regimes to maintain a healthy mouth and patient comfort.
- Provide the hands-on support and care to patients. You should have a willingness and passion to provide high quality, essential nursing care to ensure comfort and support to our patients and families.
- Contribute to and works with team to provide high-quality service to patients and carers requiring care & support in the end stages of life.
- Support patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
- Use equipment appropriately, once trained in the use and care of simple equipment.
- Record care in patients care plans in the electronic patient record (System One) and demonstrate high standards of record keeping.
We are looking for applicants who have excellent communication skills, who work well as part of a team and have a flexible adaptable approach to meet the care needs of a broad range of patients. The post will require you to work unsocial hours, weekends and Bank Holidays providing a service 365 days of the year working a 2 shift pattern of days and evenings. Working alongside the Senior Community Nurse for the service, the District Nursing service and Specialist Palliative Service you will be able to undertake support worker duties to an exceptionally high standard.
Please note, it is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Qualifications
Essential
- Appreciation of community care philosophy and procedures gained either through formal qualification or experience
- NVQ Level 2 or 3 in care or the equivalent level of skill and knowledge gained through experience and competence assessment
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience of working in a health or social care setting
- Knowledge and skills in dealing with terminally ill patients and their relatives including some understanding of common symptoms and how these are controlled.
Other requirements
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
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First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
13 October 2026
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