Bank Registered Nurse - Nights

St Clare Hospice; Harlow; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A renowned hospice organization in Harlow is looking for a Bank Registered Nurse for night shifts. The role requires delivering compassionate palliative care within a supportive team, ensuring high standards of care are maintained. Candidates should hold a first-level nursing qualification and demonstrate a commitment to providing person-centred care. Experience in a palliative care environment is preferred. Full training and professional development opportunities will be provided to help you thrive in this fulfilling role.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualification essential for the role.
• Experience of working in a palliative care environment necessary.
• Commitment to the aims and objectives of the hospice.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of specialist palliative care to patients and families.
• Lead the shift and ensure high standards are maintained.
• Participate in quality improvement and clinical audit.

Skills

Ability to assess complex needs of patients

Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills

Ability to lead team by acting as nurse in charge for shifts

Positive attitude

Education

First level Registered Nurse

Qualification in specialist palliative care

Job description

To apply for this role, click on the 'Supporting links' section on the righthand side of the page and complete a St Clare Hospice application form telling us why you feel you are suitable for this role (in particular, explaining how you fulfil the requirements set out in the Person Specification).

Please note St Clare Hospice do not hold a Certificate of Sponsorship, we are therefore unable to sponsor visa applications.

Bank Registered Nurse - Nights

Shift Pattern: 19:30 - 08:00

Are you passionate about delivering truly person-centred care in a hospice setting where time, compassion, and dignity are prioritised? At St Clare Hospice, we offer a rare opportunity to work in an environment where you can focus on what matters most providing outstanding palliative and end-of-life care with the time and space to do it properly.

We are currently recruiting to our 8-bedded Inpatient Unit, a calm and supportive space where patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do.

You do not need to be an expert in palliative care to join our team what matters most is your compassion, commitment, and willingness to learn. We are looking for the right person, and we will support you with full training and development to help you thrive in your role.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide a high standard of specialistpalliative care to patients and their families. To lead the shift, ensuring that high standardsof care across the IPU are maintained.

About us

At St Clare Hospice, our vision is that every adult with a life limiting condition in our localcommunities should have access to palliative care services wherever and whenever theyneed them, so that they can make the most of every moment, no matter how long theyhave left to live. Our many different services provide patients, their families and carers,with physical, emotional, social, psychological and spiritual support, at home, or here atthe Hospice.Our Inpatient Unit (IPU) has eight single, en-suite rooms where we care for patients whohave been admitted for symptom management and/or end of life care.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To be a safe practitioner and work within the NMC Code of professional standardsof practice and behaviour.

Provide holistic assessment of patients and families care needs, plan interventionsrequired and ensure those interventions are actioned and their effectivenessevaluated.

To communicate effectively with patients and families, ensuring they are activelyinvolved with their own care planning.

To support patients and families through grief and loss and the life changingconsequences of a palliative diagnosis.

To liaise with appropriate members of the multi-professional team (internal andexternal to the organisation) in order to ensure co-ordination and continuity of careon discharge and a smooth transition between different care settings.

To maintain clear, accurate and legible patient documentation.

To work across the 24-hour service, including weekends, nights and bank holidaysas required.

Education

To supervise and support junior colleagues, volunteers and students working onthe IPU.

To actively participate in ward meetings and ensure that accurate information isfed back to the appropriate members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To take responsibility for own ongoing education and professional developmentplan.

To support and participate in the education and development of colleagues.

To be involved in the training programme of professional visitors learners whereappropriate.

To mentor new staff members and students.Management

To act as a role model for all colleagues, providing encouragement and motivationto achieve goals for the service.

To take charge of a shift, maintaining high standards of care escalating issues asrequired.

To take responsibility for the care of their allocated patients.

To maintain a safe environment for those within the IPU.

To be aware of cost implications and make effective use of resources.

To apply evidence based practice in their own nursing care and to encouragecolleagues to do the same.

To work within other clinical areas within the Hospice as required.To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and ensure that accurateinformation is shared with IPU team.

Quality

To actively participate in, quality improvement, clinical audit, and research as ameans of monitoring and improving standards of care.To take responsibility for a link nurse role on the IPU e.g., tissue viability, infectioncontrol etc.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Qualifications & Experience

• First level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of personal professional development
• Awareness and understanding of the needs of patients
• receiving palliative and end of life care
• Experience of working in a palliative care environment
• Qualification in specialist palliative care
• Experience of teaching/presenting

Personal Qualities and Attributes

• Commitment to equality and valuing diversity and
• understanding of how this applies to own area of work
• A positive, can-do attitude to work
• Commitment to the aims and charitable objectives of St Clare
• Hospice

Skills and Abilities

• 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 cope effectively with the demands of working in a
• specialist palliative care unit
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to motivate nursing team and take initiative when
• appropriate

Other requirements

• Ability to work shift patterns including night shifts and
• weekends as internal rotation

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.