Junior Sister​/Charge Nurse

Are you aRegistered Nurse looking to take the next step in your career? We are currently recruiting for Junior Sister / Charge Nurse positions here at Garden House Hospice Care!

This is not just a job; its an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of individuals facing end of life care and limiting life conditions.

Youwill provide specialist palliative care to patients with life limiting illness and support to their families and loved ones.

You will deliver appropriate symptom control,care and medication within agreed Hospice Guidelines, and support team membersto develop these skills in practice.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care fromthe point of admission through to discharge or death.

You will work alongside all members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring collaborative working for the benefit of our patients.

We are Garden House Hospice Care, the Hospice for North Hertfordshire. We are a multiaward-winning hospice that puts the patient at the heart of everything we do. Weare the pioneers of a nationally recognised and innovative frailty service,working with the Lister Hospital, which has seen us expanding our services and helping even more patients through symptom control, reablement or last days oflife care.

To provide a high-quality specialist palliative care service to patients with a life limiting illness and to provide care and support for thefamilies, carers and those close to them.

To support the IPU Manager in team leadership ensuring optimum care standards for patients and families.

To support and lead the ward team under IPU Manager guidance ensuringand practising under the NMC Code of Conduct and Hospice Values.

To support and oversee staff nurses, APs. NAs and HCAs as well asstudent nurses to deliver direct and indirect care.

FULL DETAILS CAN BE FOUND ON THE ATTACHED JD & PS

• A minimum of 2 years experience of life limiting disease management or palliative and end of life care
• Experience of team and ward management
• Experience of personalised care and support planning that includes advance care planning, ReSPECT and treatment escalation planning
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience of undertaking service evaluation

• Degree/Diploma in Adult Nursing
• NMC Registration
• Recognised History Taking and Physical Assessment Training or willingness to undertake.
• Advanced communication skills and ReSPECT training
• Mentorship qualification or Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor training
• Leadership course/experience

• Able to demonstrate knowledge of research based clinical experience
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the needs of patients living with life limiting illness
• Ability to demonstrate the needs of those important to patients living with life limiting illness
• Able to demonstrate the governance needed to ensure safe delivery of care
• Extended clinical knowledge and skills
• Evidence of further study relating to frailty, palliative care or end of life care
• Evidence of service development
• Non medical prescribing
• Understanding of relevant national policy and practice initiatives

• Understands a high standard of
• patient care and works in
• accordance with the Nursing and
• Midwifery Council Code of Conduct and Practice
• Ability to assess complex needs of patients and plan, implement and evaluate appropriate nursing interventions
• Ability to lead team by acting as nurse in charge for shifts
• Ability to motivate nursing team and take initiative when appropriate
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Teaching skills, able to teach students, junior staff other health care professionals
• Computer skills with the ability to use electronic patient record systems
• To be able to support colleagues in stressful and emotional situations
• To be able to solve complex issues
• To be able to balance conflicting priorities and manage a challenging workload in a calm and professional manner
• Experience of the use of audit to support quality improvement
• Understanding of the process
• of introducing change and innovation into nursing practice.
• Registered car driver with a UK licence.

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.