Senior Nurse - Fast Track Team

Job overview

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, compassionate care to patients at the end of life? We are seeking an experienced and motivated clinician to join our Fast Track Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring that patients with rapidly deteriorating conditions receive timely, person-centred care in their place of choice. Working across health and social care systems, you will coordinate complex care packages, provide expert clinical assessment and decision-making, and support patients and families during some of the most significant moments of their lives.

The successful candidate will contribute to preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitating timely hospital discharges, and ensuring seamless access to high-quality palliative and end of life care services.

If you are committed to improving the experience of patients and families at the end of life and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you

Closing Date: 04/11/2026
Shortlisting Date: 05/11/2026
Interview Date: 10/11/2026

Main duties of the job

• Undertake comprehensive assessments for NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track and NHS Funded Nursing Care, ensuring timely identification of eligible patients.
• Coordinate, implement, review and monitor packages of care for patients with complex palliative and end of life care needs.
• Facilitate timely hospital discharge and support admission avoidance initiatives to enable patients to remain in their preferred place of care wherever possible.
• Provide specialist advice, guidance and support regarding Continuing Healthcare eligibility, Fast Track processes, NHS Funded Nursing Care and end of life care pathways.
• Work collaboratively with patients, carers, families, care homes, hospices, community services, primary care, acute providers and social care colleagues to ensure coordinated, high-quality care.
• Monitor and evaluate care provision, responding proactively to changes in patients' clinical needs and escalating concerns as appropriate.
• Act as an advocate for patients and families, ensuring that care remains person-centred and aligned to individual wishes and preferences.
• Support quality improvement, service development and governance activities within the team.
• Provide clinical leadership and contribute to the education and support of colleagues and partner organisations.

Working for our organisation

• Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increase mileage rates for > 4500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.
• We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible