Band 6 Nurse

Garden House Hospice Care; Letchworth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Garden House Hospice Care in North Hertfordshire seeks Registered Nurses to provide individualised, patient-centred care on our Inpatient Unit for patients with life-limiting illness. You will work with families, support end-of-life care, and collaborate with the MDT to plan discharge and bereavement support.

NMC-registered with experience in palliative care is essential, with leadership and teaching skills valued.

Qualifications

• Must be NMC registered with a Degree/Diploma in Adult Nursing.
• Minimum 2 years experience in life-limiting disease or palliative/end-of-life care.
• Leadership and teaching skills valued for supporting team development.
• Experience in multidisciplinary team working and end-of-life planning.
• Competence in communication of complex information with patients and families.

Responsibilities

• Offer specialist knowledge in caring for patients with life-limiting illness and their carers.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care from admission to discharge or death.
• Deliver communication of significant news and support families during prognosis and dying.
• Ensure personalised care and support planning including advance care planning and ReSPECT.
• Participate in MDT, discharge planning and bereavement meetings as needed.
• Maintain dignity, safety and confidentiality while delivering high-quality care.

Skills

NMC Code of Conduct

Effective communication

Leadership

Teaching skills

Team leadership

Clinical assessment

IT literacy

Education

Degree/Diploma in Adult Nursing

NMC Registration

Mentorship qualification or Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor training

Leadership course/experience

Recognised History Taking and Physical Assessment Training

Tools

Electronic patient record systems

Job description

We are looking for Registered Nurses who have a passion andcommitment to providing individualised, patient-centred care to patients with alife-limiting illness, and to providing care and support for relatives andcarers on the Inpatient Unit.

Please note: Unfortunately we are not able to considerapplicants who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

You will be NMC Registered with experience in offering specialist knowledge and skills in caring for patients with life limiting illness.

You will be compassionate with a good understanding of the needs of patients living with life limiting illness and their loved ones.

About us

We are Garden House Hospice Care, the Hospice for NorthHertfordshire. We are a multi award-winning hospice that puts the patient atthe heart of everything we do.

Patients on our Inpatient Unit are looked afterby our specialist team 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We provide support andcare to patients with a wide range of symptoms associated with a life-limitingillness, as well as their families.

We support our patients by providingsymptom control, psychological support and end-of-life care. Our highnurse-to-patient ratio ensures that patients are able to get the dedicatedsupport that they might need.

Job responsibilities

• To offer specialist knowledge and skills in caring for patients with life limiting illness and their carers.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care from the point of admission through to discharge or death.
• To be skilled in specialist communication, e.g., delivering significant news about disease progression, prognosis and dying and be skilled at supporting patients and families through this, as well as coaching other team members.
• To ensure patients have the opportunity for personalised care and support planning that includes advance care planning, ReSPECT and treatment escalation planning.
• Have knowledge of and providing care to patients and families of different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
• Participate in the hospice MDT, patient planning meetings, discharge planning and bereavement meetings as necessary.
• To ensure that the dignity, safety and confidentiality of all patients is respected at all times and that all patients receive the highest possible standards of physical, psychological and spiritual care.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years experience of life limiting disease management or palliative and end of life care
• Experience of team and ward management
• Experience of personalised care and support planning that includes advance care planning, ReSPECT and treatment escalation planning
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience of undertaking service evaluation

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Adult Nursing
• NMC Registration
• Recognised History Taking and Physical Assessment Training or willingness to undertake.
• Advanced communication skills and ReSPECT training
• Mentorship qualification or Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor training
• Leadership course/experience

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate knowledge of research based clinical experience
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of the needs of patients living with life limiting illness
• Able to demonstrate the needs of the families, carers and those close to patients living with life limiting illness
• Able to demonstrate the governance needed to ensure safe delivery of care
• Extended clinical knowledge and skills
• Evidence of further study relating to frailty, palliative care or end of life care
• Evidence of service development
• Non-medical prescribing
• Understanding of relevant national policy and practice initiatives

Skills & Abilities

• Understands a high standard of patient care and works in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and Practice
• Ability to assess complex needs of patients and plan, implement and evaluate appropriate nursing interventions
• Ability to lead team by acting as nurse in charge for shifts
• Ability to motivate nursing team and take initiative when appropriate
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Teaching skills, able to teach students, junior staff other health care professionals
• Computer skills with the ability to use electronic patient record systems
• To be able to support colleagues in stressful and emotional situations
• To be able to solve complex issues