Palliative Care RGN; SMH B6 - SMH Hospice

Palliative Care RGN (SMH B6) - SMH Hospice at Home

We are launching a new 24/7 Hospice at Home service and are recruiting a Registered Nurse to join our expanding team haels Hospice. This specialist role provides compassionate, expert care to patients in the last weeks and days of life within our community.

The service visits patients in their homes who meet our criteria, and offers flexible working options, including part‑time arrangements. This is an ideal opportunity for nurses wishing to specialise in palliative and end‑of‑life care, or for those with existing experience in this area. Community experience is advantageous.

Applicants must be NMC‑registered with an active PIN, have excellent communication skills, empathy, and the ability to work both independently and within a multi‑disciplinary team. Responsibilities include assessing patient needs, planning and delivering high‑quality care, and advocating for the best possible outcomes, while demonstrating clinical judgement and effective workload management.

The role involves shift work, including long days and nights (07:30‑20:00 / 19:30‑08:00), with some flexibility for night‑only preferences. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential due to travel across the hospice catchment area.

Closing date – 01 February 2026

Working collaboratively with the wider multi‑disciplinary team, you’ll assess, plan, and provide holistic care that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients. You’ll also play a key role in contributing to service improvement and promoting best practice in end‑of‑life care.

• Deliver personalised palliative care and symptom management at home, visiting patients 24/7.
• Support the SMH Living Well Service, including MND and long‑term neurological conditions.
• Maintain high standards of care, communication, and record‑keeping.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals, patients, families, and carers to ensure a seamless, compassionate service.

St. Michaels Hospice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including a DBS check and provide satisfactory reference before starting the role.

St. Michaels Hospice is a registered charity providing specialist palliative and end‑of‑life care services since 1992, for the people of North Hampshire. We are dedicated to providing care to people throughout North Hampshire who are affected by life‑limiting illness to attain the highest possible quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.

As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. This care is made possible by supporters donating, taking part in fundraising events and activities, playing our lottery, shopping in our retail outlets, leaving gifts in their wills or giving freely of their time to volunteer.

We offer attractive benefits, including free onsite parking, life assurance, 27 days annual leave with service increments, plus bank holidays, and an extensive health and wellbeing plan and contributory pension.

The Hospice at Home Team provides both planned and reactive service to those deemed to be in their final weeks of life requiring specialist palliative care advice and support. The Nursing team specialise in providing palliative care and support to patients at the End of Life. The specialists provide clinical assessments, advice on symptom management at end of life and provide clinical interventions to enable the patient to remain  team is supported by the wider multi‑professional team within St.

Michaels Hospice.

You will be responsible for the assessment of the person's care needs. You will develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with patients, relatives and other professionals ensuring individual physical and psychological needs are met.

Responsibilities

Proactively assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients based on an agreed…