Staff Nurse - Woodlands Hospice

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 32.000 - 39.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse for Woodlands Hospice on the Aintree University Hospital site. The role focuses on delivering high-quality palliative and end-of-life care within a busy inpatient unit, reporting to senior nursing staff.

Experience in palliative care is preferred; applicants should be able to work day and night shifts as part of a 34.5 hour week. This position is a secondment opportunity and open to internal LUHFT staff.

Qualifikationen

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration
• Diploma in Nursing
• Experience in palliative care or willingness to develop in this field
• Ability to work in a busy hospital environment

Aufgaben

• Assess and plan nursing care for patients in the inpatient unit.
• Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in a palliative setting.
• Administer medicines and monitor patient responses.
• Collaborate with Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager and senior staff.
• Support discharge planning and multi-disciplinary team involvement.

Jobbeschreibung

Main area Palliative Care Grade Band 5 Contract Secondment: 9 months (1 x 34.5 Hour Registered Nurse Posts Available. Previous acute NHS experience and Experience working within palliative and end of life care. Please note: These positions are not suitable for newly qualified nurses, as applicants must be able to demonstrate relevant acute and palliative care experience.) Hours Part time - 34.5 hours per week (Post holder will be required to work days and nights.) Job ref 287-AMED-360-26

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Woodlands Hospice Town Liverpool Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 10/11/2026 23:59

Band 5

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join Woodlands Hospice, based on the Aintree University Hospital site.

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated nurse to join our dedicated Inpatient Unit team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager and Senior Nurses to ensure the delivery of high quality, patient centred care.

Applicants should have experience in palliative care or demonstrate a strong interest in developing their skills in this specialist area. You must be able to work effectively within a busy, fast paced environment, providing excellent standards of care while upholding the values and high expectations of Woodlands Hospice.

If you are committed to making a meaningful difference to patients and their families during some of the most challenging times of their lives, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Perform comprehensive assessment of patients nursing needs. Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs and varying levels of complexity for patients requiring specialist palliative care.

Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.

Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.

Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patients needs are met, especially in relation to discharge planning.

Safely administer medicines, infusions and blood transfusions as prescribed.

Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives including sharing sensitive news.

Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.

Act as a link nurse and resource for other nursing staff for a specific area of patient care.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsible for managing and organising the care for a team of patients allocating resources (staff skills/knowledge and experience) as appropriate to ensure that high quality specialist palliative care is provided to all our patients and their carers.

Assist Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager and Senior Nurses in achieving and maintaining agreed bed occupancy and patient length of stay targets.

Support the Ward Manager and Deputy Ward Manager to maximise best use of clinical resources ensuring the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.

Contribute to the development of services within the IPU.

Contribute to allocated Care Quality Commission standards of quality and safety as they relate to the Inpatient unit. This may involve membership of working groups on specific area.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration
• Diploma in Nursing

Experience

• Post registration experience and successful completion of Band 5 foundation gateway competencies
• Experience within relevant clinical setting
• Evidence of working with students
• Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
• Recent acute hospital experience, including as a student nurse

Skills

• Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to support less experienced staff
• Ability to problem solve
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Other

• Supportive of colleagues
• Ability to work in changing environments
• Committed to high standards of patient care.
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Maintain both personal and professional development
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance
• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Our statement on modern slavery

We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain.

The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust’s supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.