Staff Nurse

Job Summary

36 hours per week (pro rata salary for part time post).

Would you like to work in a setting where over 96% of service users rate their care as outstanding with minimum registered nurse to patient ratios of 1:5 throughout the 24-hour period and 1:4 for all staff?

Are you looking for an opportunity where you have the time to deliver excellent individualised nursing care that meets each patient’s unique needs, promote patients’ wishes and provide compassionate support to their families and friends, implement your knowledge and skills while gaining specialist expertise in symptom control and develop your communication skills and progress your career in palliative care?

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, motivated registered nurse with a passion for delivering the best possible care to our patients to fill this post. You will be a compassionate and positive professional with excellent nursing, interpersonal and organisational skills. To ensure the physical, spiritual, psychological, social and cultural needs of patients and their loved ones are identified and met. You will become an integral part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team on our 10 bedded in patient unit, providing pain and symptom control, respite care, complex psychological support and end of life care for patients and their families.

Most importantly, you must be wholeheartedly committed to and motivated by the strategic priorities and values of the Hospice of the Good Shepherd.

The Post Holder Will:

• Be responsible for the initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of effective care plans.
• Act as nurse in charge once competent to do so, directly assisting in the provision of a high quality clinical and organisational service. This will involve dealing with complex situations and having to take appropriate action in emergency and unforeseen circumstances.
• Encourage and enable patients to be involved in their care activities and contribute to decisions about them wherever possible.

And Will Be Able To:

• Demonstrate their passion to promote comfort, dignity, independence and patient choice.
• Demonstrate their ability to ensure the physical, spiritual, psychological, social and cultural needs of patients, and those important to them, are identified and attended to, maintaining the highest level of nursing care.
• Use their own initiative and work well under pressure.
• Demonstrate an interest in all aspects of palliative care and long-term conditions.

You will be joining a friendly and welcoming team with a collective aim of positively enhancing the lives of the individuals in their care. There will be support and guidance for the right individual through a specific induction programme to develop their knowledge and understanding of supporting patients with an advanced life limiting illness. You ll receive a host of benefits and support, including:

• Continuation of NHS annual leave and sickness benefits if currently employed in the NHS. For those not currently employed in the NHS, annual leave and sickness benefits will be in line with Agenda for Change practice.
• Continuation of the NHS Pension Scheme for existing members or join the hospice pension scheme.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including preceptorship, induction and development.
• Broad range of in-house education and support to attend external training.
• A staff support programme including clinical supervision, confidential counselling and occupational health services.

Please note, as we do not currently have a sponsorship licence, the successful candidate will need to provide evidence of right to work in the UK.