Senior Registered Nurse

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Arundel; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme or NHS pension

Up to 35 days’ annual leave

On-site education support and study-le

Bupa access for healthcare

Free parking, subsidised meals

Corporate gym membership discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Death in Service

Job summary

Southern Hospice Group is seeking a dedicated clinician to support the provision of palliative care to children, young people and families living with life-limited conditions. The role focuses on holistic, family-centred care, enabling respite breaks and meaningful moments while managing complex symptoms within a collaborative team.

As shift lead, you will ensure safe patient allocation, support junior staff, role-model professional behaviour and drive ongoing development.

Responsibilities

• Integral in supporting patient safety and driving high quality, evidence-based care across the care team.
• Working as a shift lead, ensuring appropriate allocation of patients, providing support to junior staff where needed.
• A role model to the team, demonstrating a high level of professional behaviours, clinical skills and professional curiosity and management of risk.
• Supporting the professional development of the clinical team, including teaching, providing feedback and fostering professional growth.
• Working with the senior management team to support effective change management.

Job description

This role supports the provision of palliative care to children, young people and families living with a life limited condition. Palliative care includes the provision of respite breaks, enabling children opportunities to have fun and make memories ‘adding life to shortened years’. You will provide high quality, holistic, family centred and compassionate care whilst meeting the complex clinical needs of the children in our care. The hospice delivers end of life care to a small number of children, working with specialist teams providing training and advice to manage children’s symptoms effectively. You will work as part of a large team comprising of clinical staff, activities coordinators and the child and family support team.

You'll be

Integral in supporting patient safety and driving high quality, evidence-based care across the care team.

Working as a shift lead, ensuring appropriate allocation of patients, providing support to junior staff where needed.

A role model to the team, demonstrating a high level of professional behaviours, clinical skills and professional curiosity and management of risk.

Supporting the professional development of the clinical team, including teaching, providing feedback and fostering professional growth.

Working with the senior management team to support effective change management.

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK.We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree Houseis the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Bupa and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate.Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

Some of our roles aresubject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it may be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.