Senior Hospice at Home Nurse/Paramedic - Overnight

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care; Watford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A community hospice care provider is seeking a Senior Hospice at Home Nurse/Paramedic in Watford. The role involves delivering palliative care in patients' homes, coordinating care shifts, and responding to urgent calls. Ideal candidates should have nursing qualifications, significant experience in palliative care, and strong interpersonal skills. Join us in providing compassionate support to patients and their families during crucial times.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse or Paramedic.
• Significant experience in palliative care or long-term conditions.
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, safe, evidence-based care.
• Respond to patients in their homes for palliative care.
• Coordinate assessment and care planning.

Skills

Palliative care experience

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Communication (verbal and written)

Administrative skills

Problem-solving ability

Education

Registered General Nurse/Paramedic

Relevant postgraduate qualification

Tools

Electronic patient record system

Job description

Senior Hospice at Home Nurse/Paramedic - Overnight

• Location: Watford - Rennie Grove Peace Geographical Area
• Interview date: 28 November 2025

Main duties of the job

The role of Senior Hospice at Home Nurse/Paramedic will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm - 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients home environment including, as required, in care homes. 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.This role will suit someone whoWorks under pressure with the ability to meet deadline.Has good interpersonal skills.Has strong organisational skills.

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 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 co-ordinate 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 co-ordination 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

• Registered general Nurse/Paramedic.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.

Additional Criteria

• Significant post registration palliative, oncology, or long-term conditions experience.
• 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.
• 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:
• oWe are caring and compassionate,
• oWe engage and empower,
• oWe strive for excellence,
• oWe develop and innovate,
• oWe respect and value.
• Be a perfect match with our values.
• Mentorship course or willingness to undertake mentorship responsibility.
• 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.