Registered Nurse

St Michael'S Hospice (Hastings & Rother); East Guldeford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

St Michaels Hospice Hastings & Rother is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our palliative care team in the In-Patient Unit. You will deliver compassionate, patient-centered care and work within a multidisciplinary team to support patients and their families through illness and end-of-life care.

We welcome newly qualified nurses and those with transferable skills, offering flexible full-time and part-time hours, a supportive learning environment and opportunities to develop clinical competences

Qualifications

• Must hold current UK professional registration.
• Registered Nurse with willingness to work in palliative care.
• Disclosure check required (DBS).

Responsibilities

• Work within the nursing and multi-professional team to ensure a high standard of care within the In-Patient Unit (IPU).
• Organise own workload with regards to assessing patient needs, planning, implementation and evaluation of a programme of care.
• Practice evidence-based care that respects lifestyle, gender and cultural background and involves family and carers as per patient wishes.

Skills

Excellent communication

Team-based care

Education

UK Nursing Registration

Job description

Job summary

At St Michaels Hospice, we are committed to providing the highest quality of care to our patients and their families. As a member of our clinical team, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve.

We are looking for registered nurses who are passionate about palliative care and have transferable nursing skills and experience. You will be able to build a natural and trusted rapport with patients and families, and provide compassionate care and support to those who need it most.

Full and part-time hours available.

Main duties of the job

Our ideal candidate has excellent communication skills, sound judgement, and a real commitment to patient-centred multidisciplinary team working. You will be able to openly and honestly support people with sensitive topics including loss, grief and dying.

While palliative care experience is desirable, it is not essential to join our Hospice team as a Registered Nurse. We welcome newly graduated nurses and nurses with experience in other fields interested in a career change.

We invite you to spend the day with us to meet the team and gain insight into how you can make a difference to patients and their families by joining St Michaels Hospice.

Benefits

At St Michaels Hospice we offer a friendly, team orientated work environment a good pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership, an Employee Assistance Programme (Benenden Healthcare), up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, subsidised employee meals and free refreshments, free parking, supportive supervision and a proactive Education Department to support with your development. Hospice employees also qualify for a Blue Light Card with access to a huge array of discounts.

About us

St Michaels Hospice supports and enables the community of Hastings and Rother to live well with dying, death and loss. Our services are provided via in-patient beds and at home and we also offer Wellbeing support, both out-patient and virtual.

We want to recruit and retain the most diversely talented people and have a workforce representative of our community. We aspire to be a place where everyone feels welcome; whether you are cared for or supported by us, employed by us, volunteer for us, or support us in any way. We recognise that being a diverse and inclusive organisation will enable us to achieve our vision of a kind, resilient and empowered community.

Job responsibilities

To work within the nursing and multi-professional team to ensure a high standard of care within the In-Patient Unit (IPU). Under the indirect supervision of the IPU Team Leader, to be able to organise own workload with regards to assessing patient needs, and in planning, implementation and evaluation of a programme of care. To practice evidence-based care that utilizes all available resources, taking into consideration the lifestyle, gender and cultural background of the patient and ensures involvement with their family, carers and significant others as per the patients wishes.

Qualifications

• Essential: Please see job description.
• Desirable: Please see job description.

Experience

• Essential: Please see job description.
• Desirable: Please see job description.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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