Job Description

Registered Nurse -Community Base
Full & Part time hours available includes weekend working
Are you a compassionate and enthusiastic skilled nurse with a passion for delivering high-quality, evidence-based care? We are looking for dedicated and proactive Registered Nurses to join our dynamic Willen at Home team to help us deliver exceptional support to patients with complex and changing needs.
Main duties of the job
What Youll Do:
-Provide continuous assessment of patients and their carers, identifying evolving needs across a varied caseload.
-Deliver skilled nursing interventions including medication administration (via multiple routes), verification of death and assessments for care.
-Offer psychosocial support to patients and families experiencing emotional distress, providing compassionate, evidence-based guidance.
-Communicate effectively with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, social workers, patients, carers, and managers across organisational boundaries.
- Contribute to clinical audit and research projects to drive continuous improvement andbest practice.
About us
About us
Set in the tranquil grounds of Willen Lake, Willen Hospice is the leading provider of specialist palliative care within the Milton Keynes area. We offer 24 hour / seven days a week palliative care to people who have advanced disease, caring for people in our Inpatient Unit which accommodates 15 patients and the local community. Our person centred care is delivered with compassion and respect for peoples wishes.We have an expanding Therapeutic & Wellbeing service offering Psychological Wellbeing, Social Care, Physiotherapy, Occupational and Complementary Therapy. Our dedicated Business Development teams and retail portfolio of shops raise vital funds to deliver this care.
Details
Date posted
03 September 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience 30,000 - 32,306 pr pa, plus a 10% shift enhancement
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
B0365-25-0033
Job locations
Milton Road
Willen Village
Milton Keynes
MK15 9AB
Job description
Job responsibilities
Continual assessment of patients and their carers needs, when those needs are complex and change across the caseload.
Undertake nursing interventions (such as providing personal care to patients, administration of prescribed medication through a variety of routes, tissue viability care, ensuring infusion pumps are working correctly) consistent with evidence-based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet individual patients needs.
Provide psychosocial support to patients in emotional distress and their distressed families and provide a high standard of evidence based information to them.
Communicating effectively with multi disciplinary health care professionals, medical and social work colleagues, patients, carers and managers across organisational boundaries.
Manage the workload and liaise with M D T in the absence of the Lead Nurse.
Participate in the delivery of formal educational training to carers and RNs in the community.
Participate in audit/research projects in order to achieve best practice.
Participate in champion role work within the team to promote evidence-based practice and share learning to the wider team. Job description
Job responsibilities
Continual assessment of patients and their carers needs, when those needs are complex and change across the caseload.
Undertake nursing interventions (such as providing personal care to patients, administration of prescribed medication through a variety of routes, tissue viability care, ensuring infusion pumps are working correctly) consistent with evidence-based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet individual patients needs.
Provide psychosocial support to patients in emotional distress and their distressed families and provide a high standard of evidence based information to them.
Communicating effectively with multi disciplinary health care professionals, medical and social work colleagues, patients, carers and managers across organisational boundaries.
Manage the workload and liaise with M D T in the absence of the Lead Nurse.
Participate in the delivery of formal educational training to carers and RNs in the community.
Participate in audit/research projects in order to achieve best practice.
Participate in champion role work within the team to promote evidence-based practice and share learning to the wider team.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information. Communicate in an empathetic manner, within the MDT across a wide range of community settings. Maintain confidentiality, Act as advocate. Effective liaison with multi-professionals
• Assessment skills. Decision making in complex and distressing situations both autonomously and as part of MDT.

Qualifications
Essential

• RGN - newly qualified considered

Desirable

• Specialist Palliative Care nursing knowledge

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information. Communicate in an empathetic manner, within the MDT across a wide range of community settings. Maintain confidentiality, Act as advocate. Effective liaison with multi-professionals
• Assessment skills. Decision making in complex and distressing situations both autonomously and as part of MDT.

Qualifications
Essential

• RGN - newly qualified considered

Desirable

• Specialist Palliative Care nursing knowledge

Skills Required