Job Description

WANTED - FULL-TIME NURSES

We are THE JIMMY S BILIMORIA FOUNDATION - PALCARE - a Mumbai based NGO. (www.palcareindia.com) providing palliative care for advance stage, mainly cancer, patients, in their homes, in the city of Mumbai. For your information, palliative care is the treatment to provide pain relief, symptom management as well as psychosocial care.

PALCARE is looking for suitable candidates for the posts of Full-Time Nurses. The position is in Mumbai and suitable candidates require a BSc degree in Nursing, OR a GNM (General Nurse Midwifery) diploma with at least 3 or more years’ experience preferably in a hospital. We are however willing to look at freshers who show initiative and are committed to palliative care /pain management.

PALCARE is a holistic, home-based, medical service which provides people living in Greater Mumbai and who are inflicted with serious, life limiting conditions, such as cancer, but other serious conditions as well, pain management, symptom management and psychosocial counselling.

Such persons are often burdened with severe pain and harsh symptoms such as breathlessness, nausea, anorexia, hypercalcemia, malignant bowel obstruction and many other such symptoms, that cause them great distress and misery; not only to them but their loved ones, too, who watch them through this hardship. Managing these symptoms and providing emotional support can provide the patient better quality of life.

As a palliative care nurse, you must have:

• Good nursing skills

• Caring attitude to patients and their families

• Dedicated to the job and hard working

• Good communication skills, preferably in English, Hindi and /or Marathi.

• Basic knowledge of computer operations (MS office) is preferred.

• You must be prepared to undergo specialized training for a period of 6 weeks or more and regular refresher courses thereon.

• You must be willing to travel with the team to patients’ homes. Conveyance will be reimbursed by the organization.

• You must be willing to make a commitment to the organization for a minimum of 3 years and ideally 5.

Our eminent Quality and Clinical Advisory Board comprises:

• Dr. R. Akhileswaran – Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore;

• Ms. Harmala Gupta – CanSupport, Delhi;

• Dr. Jeremy R. Johnson (Emeritus Consultant in Palliative Medicine);

• Dr. Mary Ann Muckaden – Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai;

• Sr. Sangeetha Murugan - Karunashraya Institute for Palliative Care Education and Research, Bangalore Hospice Trust – Karunashraya

Dr. Jenifer Jeba S – Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore;

• Dr. Seema Rao – Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.

Selected candidates will receive the benefit of the vast experience and immense knowledge of our Advisory Board.

Your salary will be commensurate with your qualification and experience. Accommodation is not provided and applicants must make their own arrangements.

Interested candidates may send their Curriculum Vitae with detailed information on experience through email to: elaine.palcareindia@gmail.com with cc. to contact.palcareindia@gmail.com

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Eligibility Criteria

Not Specified

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

Organization Details

• Organization Name:The Jimmy S Bilimoria Foundation
• About Organization:THE JIMMY S BILIMORIA FOUNDATION is a new charity set up in memory of Jimmy S Bilimoria, who passed away on May 3, 2013 after a prolonged battle with cancer. During his last few months, it became obvious to him and his family that patients like him are in dire need of palliative care at home, where they can be taken care of by trained medical personnel, and so that they are not left in pain and great discomfort if they decide to stay at home or otherwise strapped to a hospital bed, without loved ones around them. While there are palliative care facilities across the country, their numbers are grossly inadequate to cater to the vast number of patients in need of such care, with the exception of Kerala, where too it is in the most part a community run service. In Mumbai, apart from Tata Memorial Centre and a handful of other institutes that have recently come into existence, palliative care is almost unheard of. CanSupport in Delhi is an exceptional home care service. Shanti Avedna in
  
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