Registered Nurse

NHS; Harlow; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A local palliative care provider in Harlow is seeking a compassionate Registered Nurse to join their Inpatient Unit. The role involves providing holistic care to patients and their families, leading shifts, and supporting a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have palliative care experience, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to ongoing professional development. Training and support are provided for all new staff. Salary ranges from £31,815 to £37,816, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a palliative care environment.
• Evidence of personal professional development.
• Experience of teaching or presenting.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic assessment of patients and families' care needs.
• Lead the shift and maintain high standards of care.
• Support patients and families through grief and loss.

Skills

Ability to assess complex needs

Excellent communication skills

Ability to lead the team

Ability to motivate nursing team

Education

First level Registered Nurse

Qualification in specialist palliative care

Job description

To apply for this role, click on the supporting link 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).

Overview of role

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.

Please read the job description (link below) for further details.

For an informal discussion, please contact:

Rosie Hewer (IPU Manager)on 01279 773713 or by email [e-mail]

Right to Work

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

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

Key Responsibilities

ClinicalTo 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

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

Knowledge

• Awareness and understanding of the needs of patients
• receiving palliative and end of life care

Experience

• Experience of working in a palliative care environment.
• Experience of teaching/presenting

Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of personal professional development
• Qualification in specialist palliative care

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.

Depending on experience£31,815 – £37,816 pa depending on experience incl of HCA