Registered Nurse

NHS Scotland; Dumfries; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days + 10 public hols

Parental/sick leave policy

Industry leading training

Season ticket loan

Pension scheme

Bike and device loan

Friend referral scheme

Eyecare support

Marie Curie Blue Light Card

Benefit-Hub discounts

Life assurance

Enhanced pay for nights

30% nights (8pm-6am)

60% Sundays/Bank Holidays

Job summary

Marie Curie is seeking a Registered Nurse to deliver compassionate, person-centred palliative and end-of-life care at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. You’ll join the Out of Hours Team within a supportive multidisciplinary setup, assessing needs, planning care and empowering patients and families.

The role requires NHS experience and an NMC-registered nurse, with duties including triaging calls and providing telephone support.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on the NMC Register.
• Experience in NHS or other relevant care setting, ideally in palliative care.
• Ability to work in a complex and stressful environment and demonstrate coping mechanisms.
• Be person-centred and compassionate when caring for the person and those important to them.
• Ability to develop, implement, and evaluate a care management plan that meets complex needs.
• Proven understanding of barriers and enablers to good communication and how challenges can be overcome.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate safe, evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care.
• Build trusting relationships with patients and the people important to them, ensuring their wishes and dignity.
• Work closely with colleagues and external health and social care professionals to provide coordinated support.
• Recognise and respond to changing needs and palliative care emergencies.
• Delegate appropriately, support the development of colleagues and contribute to clinical leadership, learning and quality improvement.
• Provide support and advice to patients and families, and triage calls to GP's and District Nurses.

Skills

NMC registered nurse

NHS experience

Compassionate care

People-centred care

Care plan development

Communication skills

Job description

Join Marie Curie as a Registered Nurse and help provide compassionate, person-centred care to people living with a terminal illness and those important to them. Based at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, you will work alongside the Out of Hours Team as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team. You will assess individual needs, plan and deliver high-quality care, manage symptoms and empower patients to make informed choices about what matters most to them.

What you will be doing

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate safe, evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care.
• Build trusting relationships with patients and the people important to them, ensuring their wishes, preferences and dignity remain at the heart of care.
• Work closely with colleagues and external health and social care professionals to provide coordinated support.
• Recognise and respond to changing needs, deterioration and palliative care emergencies.
• Delegate appropriately, support the development of colleagues and contribute to clinical leadership, learning and quality improvement.
• Providing appropriate support and advice to patients and families and over the telephone. Triaging calls to GP's and District Nurses.

What we're looking for:

• Registered Nurse on NMC Register
• Experience in NHS or other relevant care setting, ideally in palliative care
• Ability to work in a complex and stressful environment and demonstrate appropriate coping mechanisms
• Be person-centred and compassionate when caring for the person and those important to them
• Ability to develop, implement, and evaluate a care management plan that meets the complex needs of the person, and those important to them
• Proven understanding the barriers and enablers to good communication and how challenges can be overcome

Salary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale Band 5 (aligned with AFC) £34,544 - £43,039 pro rata per annum + enhancements

Contract: Permanent - Part Time 18 hours per week (3 shifts - 6pm - midnight)

Based: Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.

Benefits You'll Love

• Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 10 public holidays (pro rata)
• Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave
• Industry leading training programmes
• Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
• Defined contribution schemes for Pension
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Introduce a friend scheme
• Help with eyecare cost
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
• Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
• Life assurance - for all employees
• Generous enhancements (between the hours of 8 pm and 6 am)
  • 30% Saturday and weekday nights
  • 60% Sundays and Bank Holidays

Closing date for applications: 6th November 2026

Interview Dates: TBC

For further information or to arrange an informal chat please contact our Hiring Manager Samatha Creighton, Senior Nurse - [e-mail]

**We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications. **