Palliative Care Nurse

JD - Palliative Care Nurse:

Project Context:

This role of Palliative Care Nurse is part of Defeat-NCD India Foundations Palliative Care Programme. A initiative with Goa Medical College (GMC) is foreseen to establish OPD, IPD, day-care, and home-based palliative care services. Key objectives include:

• Improving quality of life for patients with life-threatening illnesses.
• Reducing hospital readmissions through community-based care.
• Strengthening training for healthcare professionals and caregivers.

The project also focuses on raising awareness and enhancing palliative care capacity in primary and secondary healthcare settings and promoting policy-level advocacy to integrate palliative care into Goas health system.

Job Description

1

• Care -coordination of patients registered in the organisation
• Provide critical nursing support and education to palliative care patients and their caregivers across settings IP, OP, Home care
• Adhere to the practice of confidentiality regarding patients, families, staff, and the organisation Provide critical nursing support and education to palliative care patients and their caregivers across settings – IP, OP, Home care.

2

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary palliative care team to ensure excellent patient care services.
• Identifying patients with Palliative care needs, enrolling new patients, assessment of their needs and prioritizing their care
• Liaise with and assist the doctor in symptom management
• Triaging to the right care setting as per needs
• Identify the psycho-social needs and help triage to multi-Disciplinary team member
• Out-of-hours phone triage
• Assess informal caregivers’ ability, to provide nursing care/education to patients and family
• Maintenance of nursing record, patient registers – IP, OP, home care, death register
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Participate actively in continuing education training programs
• Assist in in-house training sessions and participate in outstation training as required
• Stay updated on best practices in palliative care through training and workshop. Mentor and support others nurses and nursing students as needed.

3

• Attend educational activities of the unit and participate actively in continuing education training programs
• Assist in in-house training sessions and participate in outstation training as required
• Stay updated on best practices in palliative care through training and workshop. Mentor and support others nurses and nursing students as needed.

4

• Participate in events held as part of continuity of care
• Bereavement calls/visits/events (Remembrance Day)
• Cancer awareness, preventive oncology

5

• Perform other duties as required and assigned by management

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• BSc, GNM (General Nurse Midwifery)

Desirable:

• Computer Skills- MS Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)

Experience:

• 3-5 years of clinical experience in Palliative care

Skills/Competencies:

• Exemplify ethical behaviour;
• adhere to the practice of respect, confidentiality, beneficence and non-maleficence regarding patients, families, staff, and the organization.
• Exemplify respectful behaviour with all members of the team and foster the dignity of each member in their role.
• Educate patients /family on clinical condition, hands-on care needs, progress of disease, prognosis
• Discuss and provide end-of-life care with empathy and religious/cultural sensitivity
• Be available out-of-hours – for phone follow-up/triage
• Update knowledge and skills of the science continuously

APPLICATIONS : Send your CV and a motivation letter explaining how you think your skills and experience make you a strong candidate for this position to [email removed] quoting the subject line : “Palliative Care Nurse ”

Deadline for applications: 10th October 2026.

Candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible. Applications will be received and evaluated on a rolling basis and the recruitment process may close early if we have enough suitable applicants and the project is confirmed by the Health authorities.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted