Bank Registered Nurse IPU / Community

NHS; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Chelmsford seeks a skilled Registered Nurse to deliver specialist palliative care in both community and inpatient settings. The role involves working within a multi-disciplinary team, providing holistic assessments, and ensuring high-quality support for patients and their families at end of life. Candidates should possess a strong background in palliative care and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in end of life and palliative care.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage stress.
• Experience in holistic assessment and symptom management.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care for hospice patients and families.
• Offer psychosocial and spiritual support.
• Liaise with health and social care professionals.

Skills

Palliative care

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Emotional intelligence

Education

Nurse Registration

Advanced Communications Skills Training

Tools

Office 365

Electronic patient record systems

Zoom

MS Teams

Job description

Are you a motivated, forward thinking,talented individual interested in delivering excellent specialist palliativecare within a multidisciplinary team to patients and their families within midEssex?

Farleigh Hospice is the leadingspecialist palliative care provider in mid Essex, providing specialist supportto patients and their families in both the community via our multidisciplinarylocality care teams, and our inpatient unit.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for highly motivated and skilled Registered Nurse(s) to join our specialist Inpatient Unit Nursing Team and our Community Teams. You will be skilled in undertaking in-depth holistic assessments to identify patient needs and be able to plan and coordinate care to meet these needs. You will support our Hospice at Home teams to deliver high quality personal care to people at end of life in their own homes. Using your clinical skills, you will work alongside the MDT to provide excellent symptom control, psycho-social and spiritual support for patients who are under the care of the community teams supporting patients and their significant others through to end of life care.

About us

The 10-bed unit will provide holistic care for patients with both malignant and non-malignant life limiting illnesses and their families and carers. This will include excellent symptom control, psycho-social and spiritual support for patients who are admitted for symptom control, specialist palliative rehabilitation and end of life care; we are also aspiring to provide care for patients with complex nursing needs such as non-invasive ventilation and tracheostomy care.

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, we understand the strength we gain from having and supporting diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone.

Why apply for this role?

We offer a great working environment; competitive Bank pay and a strong team to support you

Job responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse you will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing clinical care,navigation,coordination and support to hospice patients and their families

Through holistic assessment provide information, advice, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals

To work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it.Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret information, to enable them to determine their own future

To maintain effective communication skills to deliver highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously with staff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means

To work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT)sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within the locality/in-patient unit for patients who have palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is coordinated and delivered

To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team,seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required,in order to make sound decisions around palliative and end of life care

To support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert to work as one team

To support any streamlined locality/IPU processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology including clear outcome measures to produce efficient and highly performing community services

To support the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the good reputation of the Hospice e.g.local trusts, CCG,health and social care partners, businesses and voluntary organisations

To support and guide Health Care Assistants,Healthcare Support Workers and volunteers in their daily practice

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience in the delivery of end of life and palliative care or related disciplines.
• Proven ability of successfully working with people and handling difficult and sometimes complex situations
• Ability to work under pressure, manage own stress and emotional responses and be aware of stress in others
• Ability to use a range of IT systems and software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365 and electronic patient record systems (such as SystmOne), )as well as virtual systems e.g. Zoom, MS Teams
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Ability to motivate self and others and to lead by example
• Able to effectively resolve professional and ethical issues
• Ability to prioritise issues and tasks
• Good oral/written communication and interpersonal skills
• Passionate about Hospice Care and enthusiasm for the vision of the organisation
• Team player who can work as part of our One Team ethos
• Good level of emotional intelligence and resilience
• Flexible approach to work, with ability to work out of hours on occasions
• Committed to the development of palliative care skills in others
• Committed to working in partnership with people their relatives and carers other organisations and agencies
• Driving licence and access to vehicle
• SatisfactoryDisclosure and Barring Service check
• Experience of holistic assessment and complex symptom management
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Experience of working unsupervised (Lone working)

Qualifications

• Nurse Registration
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Advanced Communications Skills Training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.