Registered Nurse (Adult)

Eden Valley Hospice and Jigsaw Children's Hospice; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A caring healthcare provider in Carlisle is offering an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join their dedicated team. This role entails delivering high-quality palliative and end-of-life care for patients and their families. Candidates should have experience working within a multi-disciplinary team and a commitment to continuous professional development. Competitive salary is offered alongside a supportive work environment with opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

Free on-site parking

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme for eligible applicants

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-disciplinary team settings.
• Prior experience in specialist palliative care preferred.
• Experience of caring for terminally ill patients and their families.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver person-centred and evidence-based palliative care.
• Assess and evaluate care needs of patients and families.
• Communicate effectively with multidisciplinary team and families.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Resilience working with loss and bereavement

Ability to work under pressure

Planning, prioritising, and delegating effectively

Education

Registered nurse at degree level or relevant experience

Job description

Registered Nurse (Adult)

Closing date: 04 January 2026

Eden Valley Hospice is a forward-thinking, compassionate provider of specialist palliative and end-of-life care. We are currently offering an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our dedicated team in our 10-bed inpatient unit based in Carlisle.

Our vision is to improve care for people in our communities who are dying or have conditions which will shorten their lives.

We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, person-centred care through our inpatient unit, Living Well and Outreach services, patient and family support, and Jigsaw, our dedicated childrens hospice. Collaboration is at the heart of our approach, and we work closely with healthcare providers across the region.

Main duties of the job

As a Registered Nurse, you will play a vital role in our multidisciplinary team, responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of holistic and evidence-based palliative care to patients and their families.

Thanks to our excellent staff-to-patient ratios, you will have the time to truly connect with those in your care, building supportive relationships with patients and their families.

You’ll be part of an environment that values reflection, continuous learning, and personal development. We provide regular clinical supervision and ongoing training opportunities to help you grow both professionally and personally.

Shift Information

We are looking for someone who can work a variety of 12-hour shifts on rotation across 7 days:

• Day Shift: 7.30am - 8.00pm
• Night Shift: 7.30pm - 8.00am

About us

What we offer

• A dynamic, supportive, and creative working environment
• A genuine opportunity to make a meaningful impact
• Free on-site parking
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• For eligible applicants, continued membership of the NHS Pension Scheme

We understand that working for a charity may raise questions about stability. Whilst we can never be complacent about the scale of the fundraising challenge that we continually face, the success of our income generation efforts and our prudent approach to managing our resources will ensure that we remain financially secure.

A commitment to developing your clinical skills is essential, and in return, you’ll find opportunities for career progression and pay progression.

Job responsibilities

Purpose

As part of a multi-disciplinary team, plan, co‑coordinate, deliver, and evaluate person‑centred and evidence‑based palliative care to patients, families and carers.

Contribute to the Hospice vision of providing excellence in special palliative care.

Act as a role model to support other members of the team to ensure that high standards of care are delivered.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (which include, but not limited to):

Understand and act in accordance with the NMC Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates, and fulfil all registration requirements.

Understand and apply relevant legal, regulatory and governance requirements, policies, and ethical frameworks, including any mandatory reporting duties, to all areas of practice.

Use appropriate research methods, ethics and governance to critically analyse, safely use, share and apply research findings to promote and inform best nursing practice.

Communicate effectively, to an advanced level, using a range of skills and strategies with colleagues, wider MDT, external contacts, patients and their families.

Develop, manage and maintain appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues.

Demonstrate the numeracy, literacy, digital and technological skills required to ensure safe and effective nursing practice and to keep complete, clear, accurate and timely records.

Take responsibility for continuous self‑reflection, seeking and responding to support and feedback to develop professional knowledge and skills, including clinical supervision.

Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health

Use appropriate communication skills and strength‑based approaches to support and enable people to make informed choices about their care to manage health challenges in order to have satisfying and fulfilling lives within the limitations caused by reduced capability, illness and disability.

Provide information in accessible ways to help people understand and make decisions about their health, treatment choices, illness and care, and death.

Protect health through understanding and applying the principles of infection prevention and control.

Assessing Needs and Planning Care

Identify and assess the needs of people and families for care at the end‑of‑life, including requirements for palliative care and decision‑making related to their treatment and care preferences.

Accurately process all information gathered during the assessment process to identify needs for individualised nursing care and develop person‑centred, evidence‑based plans for nursing interventions with agreed goals.

Work in partnership with people, families and carers to continuously monitor, evaluate and reassess the effectiveness of all agreed nursing care plans and care, sharing decision‑making and readjusting agreed goals, documenting progress and decisions made.

Effectively assess a person’s capacity to make decisions about their own care and to give or withhold consent. Understand and apply the relevant laws about mental capacity when making decisions in relation to people who do not have capacity.

Recognise and assess people at risk of harm and the situations that may put them at risk, ensuring prompt action is taken to safeguard those who are vulnerable.

Providing and Evaluating Care

Apply an understanding of what is important to people and how to use this knowledge to ensure their needs for safety, dignity, privacy, comfort and sleep can be met, acting as a role model for others in providing evidence‑based person‑centred care.

Prioritise what is important to people and their families when providing evidence‑based person‑centred nursing care at end‑of‑life including the care of people who are dying, families, the deceased and the bereaved.

Understand and apply the principles of safe and effective administration and optimisation of medicines in accordance with local and national policies and demonstrate proficiency and accuracy when calculating dosages of prescribed medicines.

Co‑ordinate and undertake the processes and procedures involved in routine planning and management of safe discharge home or transfer of people between care settings.

Monitor and evaluate the quality of care delivered by self, others in the team and lay carers.

Leading and Managing Nursing Care and Working in Teams

Demonstrate an understanding of the roles, responsibilities and scope of practice of all members of the clinical team and how to make best use of the contributions of others involved in providing care.

Safely and effectively lead and manage the nursing care of a group of people, demonstrating appropriate prioritisation, delegation and assignment of care responsibilities to others involved in providing care.

Contribute to the education, training and development of colleagues and students.

Support and supervise students in the delivery of nursing care, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback, and evaluating and documenting their performance.

Guide, challenge, support and motivate individuals and interact confidently with other members of the care team.

Effectively and responsibly use a range of digital technologies to access, input, share and apply information and data within teams and between organisations.

Improving Safety and Quality of Care

Understand and apply the principles of health and safety legislation and regulations to maintain safe work and care environments. Identify the need to make improvements and proactively respond to potential hazards that may affect the safety of self or others.

Understand the relationship between safe staffing levels, appropriate skill mix, safety and quality of care, recognising risks to quality of care and escalating concerns appropriately.

Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of improvement methodologies, participate in all stages of audit activity and identify and participate in appropriate quality improvement strategies to bring about continuous improvement.

Identify, report and critically reflect on near misses, critical incidents, major incidents and serious adverse events in order to learn from them and influence future practice.

Acknowledge the need to accept and manage uncertainty. Use appropriate strategies that develop resilience in self and others.

Coordinating Care

Apply the principles of partnership, collaboration and inter‑agency working across all relevant sectors for the benefit of patients and the Hospice.

Respond to the challenges of providing safe, effective and person‑centred nursing care for people who have complex care needs.

Support patients and families with a range of care needs to maintain optimal independence and avoid unnecessary interventions and disruptions to their lives.

Facilitate equitable access to care for people who are vulnerable or have a disability, demonstrate the ability to advocate on their behalf when required, and make necessary reasonable adjustments to the assessment, planning and delivery of their care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse at degree level, or relevant experience
• Willing to undertake further qualifications

Experience

• Working effectively in a multi‑disciplinary team
• Assessing patient needs and of planning, co‑ordinating and evaluating care
• Specialist palliative care experience
• Experience of nursing terminally ill patients and caring for their families

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey message in a clear and sensitive manner
• Ability to develop beneficial working relationships and interact with people at all levels
• Demonstrable resilience to working with those facing loss and bereavement
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and in a demanding environment
• Ability to be able to plan, prioritise and delegate work effectively, evidencing a motivated and enthusiastic attitude
• Evidence of ongoing continuous development
• Up‑to‑date knowledge of care practices and interventions
• Ability to contribute to the learning environment

Other

• Flexible approach
• Physical ability to work 12 hour shifts with sustained period on feet and moving and handling of patients
• Ability to evidence behaviour consistent with the Hospice values of professional, caring, respect and dignity

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.

Date posted

01 December 2025

£31,753 to £33,864 a year*FTE salaries are based on 37.5 hours