Registered Nurse Hospice at Home

St Clare Hospice; Harlow; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A community hospice in Harlow is seeking a dedicated nurse to provide outstanding palliative care. The role involves working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring patients and families receive compassionate support. Ideal candidates will be first-level registered nurses with a commitment to the hospice's values. The position offers opportunities for professional growth and development within palliative care.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of specialist palliative care.
• Communicate effectively with patients and families.
• Liaise with the multi-professional team for continuity of care.

Skills

Ability to assess complex needs of patients

Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills

Ability to lead a team

Ability to motivate healthcare assistants

Education

First level Registered Nurse

Qualification in specialist palliative care

Job description

Location:Community role, base St Clare Hospice, Hastingwood, CM17 9JX, delivering care in the community across West Essex

Hours:37.5 hours per week(part time considered)

Shift pattern: Long Day 08:0020:00 Early 08:006:00 and Late 12:00-20:00

Are you passionate about delivering truly person-centred Palliative care in a community 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 the Hospice at Home team 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, and the opportunity for career development in palliative care.

Why join St Clare Hospice?

At St Clare Hospice, we believe that great care starts with a great team. We are proud to offer a supportive, values-driven working environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally.

Please note:

• You will be required to complete a St Clare Hospice Application form to apply
• 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, ensuring that high standards of care aremaintained.

About us

St Clare Hospice is a charity providing specialist palliative care to improve the lives ofpeople affected by a life-limiting illness in West Essex and the borders of EastHertfordshire. Our care helps patients, their families, and carers, to make the most ofevery moment together, no matter how long they have left to live. We support them both athome and in the Hospice.Our Hospice at Home team provide practical and psycho/social support for patients whowish to remain in their own home.

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 report directly to HH Nurse Team Lead.

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 08.00 20.00 service hours, including weekends, and bank holidaysas required.

Education

To supervise and support junior colleagues, volunteers and students workingwithin the Hospice

To actively participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings and ensure thataccurate information is fed back to the appropriate members of the multidisciplinary teams.

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 coordination for HH caseload, maintaining high standards ofcare escalating issues as required.

To take responsibility for the care plan of Hospice at Home patients during shift.

To Risk assess and maintain a safe environment for Hospice at Home staff whileon shift in community.

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 community 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 the role as a link nurse within the Hospice at Home Teame.g. tissue viability, infection control etc.

Person Specification

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 of
• coordination of shift
• Ability to cope effectively with the demands of working in
• specialist palliative care
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to motivate nursing and Health Care assistants and
• take initiative when appropriate

Personal Qualities and Attributes

• Commitment to equality 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
• Commitment to uphold the Values of St Clare Hospice

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

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 & incl of HCA (Pro-rata for part time hours)