Senior Staff Nurse Supportive Care Team (Hospice at Home)

East Lancashire Hospice; Blackburn; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A local hospice organization in Blackburn is seeking a motivated Senior Staff Nurse to join the Supportive Care Team. You will play a vital role in delivering high-quality palliative care to patients in their own homes, ensuring comfort and dignity in end-of-life situations. The ideal candidate will have a strong nursing background, especially in palliative/end-of-life care, and must demonstrate excellent communication and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults with life limiting illness.
• Palliative/end of life care experience is essential.
• Willing to contribute to a 7 day rota including weekends and Bank Holidays.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to patients in their own home environment.
• Plan, assess, implement, and evaluate care.
• Deliver high quality person-centred care.

Skills

Well developed communication skills

Solution focused approach

Sensitive and responsive to patient/carer needs

Effective organization skills

IT skills

Education

1st Level Registered Nurse (Adults)

Palliative care qualification/willing to undertake

Job description

Senior Staff Nurse Supportive Care Team (Hospice at Home)

An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of new investment and ongoing service development for a motivated individual passionate about high quality palliative and end of life care to join our team.

Main duties of the job

You will have a key role in providing support to patients in their own home environment who have palliative and end of life care needs, role-modelling high quality care and clinical standards and promoting a learning environment for team member and other involved in the persons care whilst supporting informal carers. You will be responsible for planning, assessing, implementing, and evaluating care in collaboration with the District Nurses Team in order to prevent avoidable hospital admission or support.

About us

East Lancashire Hospice is a registered charity, founded in 1984. We support and care for patients with a life limiting illness, their families and others close to them. We provide this in a number of ways; at the hospice and in peoples own homes across our community of Blackburn, Darwen, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley.With approximately 120 employees and over 250 volunteers, our people are our biggest asset whom we value tremendously. Our services to the local community would not be possible without our motivated and caring workforce who always strive to deliver excellence in all that they do. The hospice is a unique and special place, kindness and compassion are qualities that run throughout the hospice and our people truly believe in what we do.

Job responsibilities

Actively engage with primary and community carecolleagues to identify those individuals in the last 12 months of life, raiseawareness of and access to hospice services, increase opportunities for advancecare planning and work to maximise patient independence, self-care and autonomy

Provide responsive assessment and care planning tosupport early discharge from hospital/hospice and/or prevent avoidableadmissions

Build on the assessment and care planning ofcommunity nursing providers to enable patients to remain in their preferredplace of care/death

Effectively manage risk on a planned and responsivebasis, escalating urgent/emergency situations as they arise

Work in collaboration with those involved in apersons care including family/informal carers, to prevent crisis developmentand enable the person to remain in their own home in keeping with individualpreferences and where admission avoidance is possible

Deliver high quality person-centred care for thosereferred to the service with palliative/end of life care needs

Provide support and supervision for thework/development of team membersincluding for example Health Care Assistants, volunteers and those on placementincluding student nurses

Ensure medicines are managed and administered inaccordance with all internal policies, standard operating procedures and legislationrelated to the management of controlled drugs

Ensure that patient records are completed accuratelyand in-line with hospice policy and professional standards

Establish and maintain effective communications andworking relationships with the multi-professional/multi-agency team

Verify death for patients on the caseload, followingprocedures and best practice guidance for care after death and liaising with families, carers and othersinvolved in care as appropriate

Contribute and/or lead on the provision ofeducation/development opportunities within own area of knowledge and training

Person Specification

Knowledge

• K1 Care Planning process including assessment and
• evaluation of care
• K3 Advance Care Planning
• K4 Current thinking and approaches to Care outside
• Hospital

Skills

• S1 Well developed communication skills to enable
• effective communication with patients,
• colleagues and a wide range of partners in care
• S2 Solution focused approach to problems/risk
• S4 Sensitive and responsive to patient/carer need
• S5 Ability to identify and respond flexibly to
• changing priorities
• S6 Effective organisation and negotiation ability
• S7 IT skills including inputting to clinical records
• systems
• S8 Full UK driving with business class insurance and
• access to a vehicle for work purposes

Personal Attributes

• PA1 Able to work independently while recognising
• and valuing the contributions of colleagues,
• formal and informal carers and wider MDT
• PA2 Commitment to an enabling/empowering and
• non-discriminatory approach to patient care
• PA3 Able to contribute to a 7 day rota including
• weekends and Bank Holidays
• PA4 Good attendance record with a flexible
• approach to meet service need
• PA5 Ability to engage in clinical interventions that
• may include moving and handling people and/or
• equipment

Experience

• E1 Working with adults with life limiting illness
• E5 Multi-disciplinary / multi agency working
• E2 Palliative/end of life care experience
• E4 Community / home based nursing

Qualifications

• Q1 1st Level Registered Nurse (Adults)
• Q2 Evidence of professional development
• Q3 Palliative care qualification/willing to undertake
• Q4 Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing
• Q5 Mentorship or equivalent

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.

£36,671 to £41,154 a yeardependant on qualifications & experience