Hospice at Home Registered Nurse (Mansfield)

The Methodist Church in Britain; Sutton-in-Ashfield; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Beaumond House Hospice seeks a Registered Nurse to join its Hospice at Home service. You will provide holistic end-of-life care at patients’ homes, manage symptoms, and lead health care assistants within a 36-hour post on a nine-hour rota running seven days a week.

You’ll work with an integrated hub team, ensuring safe care, timely discharges, and adherence to NMC/CQC standards. Right to work in the UK is required and visa sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Flexible and adaptable in a home-based nursing role.
• Strong listening skills and ability to build rapport with patients and families.
• Ability to work autonomously within scope of practice and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Visit patients at home for holistic assessments and individualized nursing care.
• Provide symptom management and end-of-life care, working autonomously within scope of practice.
• Review and update care plans and clinical documentation.
• Triage referrals into the Integrated Hub and assist discharge planning.
• Lead and support Health Care Assistants, delegating as per NMC guidance.
• Offer bereavement support and patient/carer education; collaborate with MDT.

Skills

Flexibility

Excellent listening and rapport

Teamwork and collaboration

Education

NMC registration

Job description

Beaumond House Hospice needs a Registered Nurse for its Hospice at Home service, working within the End-of-Life Care Together Integrated Hub on a caseload of palliative patients in their homes. The work centres on holistic assessment, symptom management and end-of-life care, plus discharge planning and admission avoidance. It is a 36-hour post on nine-hour rota shifts across a 7am to 10pm service running seven days a week, and includes leading Health Care Assistants. Visa sponsorship is not offered, so an existing right to work is required.

What the job involves

• Visit patients at home for holistic assessments and individualised nursing care
• Provide symptom management and end-of-life care, working autonomously within scope of practice
• Review, update and maintain care plans and clinical documentation
• Triage referrals into the Integrated Hub
• Support discharge planning and reduce avoidable hospital admissions
• Lead and support Health Care Assistants, delegating in line with NMC guidance
• Provide advice, education and bereavement support to patients, carers and families
• Work in partnership with the Integrated Hub, Hospice at Home Lead, Care Navigators and MDT
• Undertake risk assessments, including lone working, and follow safeguarding and medicines policies
• Contribute to recruitment, induction, staff development and staffing level monitoring
• Support students and learners in practice
• Take part in audits, incident reporting and quality improvement, keeping records to NMC and CQC standards

What’s required

Qualifications

• NMC Level 1 Registered Nurse

Registration & licences

• NMC registration

Skills & knowledge

• Flexibility
• Excellent listening skills and ability to build rapport
• Friendly and sensitive approach

Checks & eligibility

• Existing right to work in the UK

Nice to have

• Experience in palliative or end of life care, or relevant transferable experience
• Strong interpersonal and telephone communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team and respect for others
• Confidence in basic IT and electronic records, or willingness to develop it