Senior Hospice at Home Nurse

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care; Watford; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospice care charity is seeking a Senior Hospice at Home Nurse in Watford. The role involves delivering high-quality, evidence-based palliative care in patients' homes. Candidates should be Registered General Nurses with postgraduate qualifications and strong interpersonal skills. The position offers a flexible work schedule and requires collaboration with a dedicated team to provide compassionate support to patients and families.

Qualifications

• Experience of shift/caseload management.
• Good administrative and record keeping skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Visit patients in their own home for palliative care.
• Coordinate assessment and planning of individualised care.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

IT literacy

Problem-solving skills

Education

Registered General Nurse

Relevant postgraduate qualification

Non-medical prescribing qualification

Job description

• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (part time hours considered)
• Interview date: 05 November 2025

Job summary

Senior Hospice at Home Nurse

• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (part time hours considered)
• Location: Rennie Grove Peace - Watford & Hertsmere (SW Herts) Locality
• Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 6 - £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata)
• Closing date: 24 October 2025 at 12 noon
• Interview date: 05 November 2025

This role will suit someone whoIs flexible and enjoys the variety of work in a fast-moving environmentHas good interpersonal skillsHas strong organisational skills

Main duties of the job

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The post holder will work flexible hours working to structured shift patterns covering 7am-9.30pm on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace Care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.

About us

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness. We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years.)

Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces. We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.

Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:

• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home to provide palliative and end of life care.
• To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care.
• Ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
• To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace Care staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the Lone Worker policy and procedure requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered general Nurse
• Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
• Non-medical prescribing Qualification of willingness to complete.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Experience of shift/caseload management.
• Able to build good working relationships.
• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Good administrative and record keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
• Be a perfect match with our values.
• Understanding of current palliative care matters.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• IT literate and experience of using an electronic patient record system.
• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations.
• Good organisation and negotiation skills
• Ability to motivate self and others.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Ability to support change and influence.
• Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
• Exemplar written skills.
• Willingness to undertake a nominated extended role (champion/mentor)
• Diplomatic but objective.
• Calm and approachable manner.
• Flexible attitude to working.
• Personally and professionally mature and recognise own limitations.
• Willingness to work in other areas of patient services.
• A commitment to the visions, values and objectives of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.
• Understanding and commitment to organisations equal opportunities policy.
• Be a perfect match with our values:
• We are caring and compassionate,
• We engage and empower,
• We strive for excellence,
• We develop and innovate,
• We respect and value

Desirable

• Experience of working within palliative care/long term conditions/in an oncology setting.
• Experience of participating in clinical audit/quality management Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.

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 seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

Address

Peace Hospice

Watford

WD17 3PH

Employer's website

https://renniegrovepeace.org/ (Opens in a new tab)