Sunflower Well Centre Staff Nurse

Are you a compassionate and dedicated

Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference? Join our team at East Cheshire Hospice and help us deliver exceptional palliative care to patients living with life-limiting illnesses and their families.

Provide high-quality, holistic care that respects dignity, safety, and confidentiality

Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to meet patients physical, psychological, and spiritual needs

Support medication management and uphold professional standards in linewith NMC guidelines

Contribute to service development, audits, and education programmes

Mentor junior staff and assist with rota planning and team communication

East Cheshire Hospice is based in Macclesfield and supports patients and families from the High Peak and East Cheshire areas.

We believe in recruiting for the right attitudes and training for exact skills. The nature of the care we provide to patients, carers and families is specialised and at East Cheshire Hospice, operates at a exceptionally high standard. We can only hope to maintain that standard through a caring, compassionate and well motivated workforce.

The purpose of this job role at East Cheshire Hospice is to provide ahigh quality palliative care to meet the needs of both patients living with a life limiting illness and their families/carers in keeping with the aims, objectives and standards of East Cheshire Hospice.

Duties

Professional and Clinical duties include:

• To practice as a professional nurse in direct patient care, ensuring that the dignity, safety and confidentiality of patients is always respected and that all patients receive the highest possible standards of holistic care.
• To recognise nutritional and hydration needs of patients and liaise with catering staff to ensure the provision of appropriate meals; acknowledging and assisting patients that require assistance with diet and fluids.
• To promote professional standards of behaviour and ensure that junior nursing staff are aware of their personal accountability and their responsibilities as articulated in the Code of Professional Conduct of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC).
• To be able to contribute to policies, procedures and service development, assisting in carrying out regular reviews and audits as appropriate.
• To work closely with the multi-disciplinary team in creating a collaborative and planned approach to patient care.
• Tomaintainpersonal contact with patients, relatives and carers ensuring that their psychological,spiritual and social needs are met.
• To maintain custody and storage of controlled and other drugs, checking andwitnessingadministration procedures and strictly adhering to the Hospices Medicines Management policy.
• Toassistin fostering an atmosphere of reflective practice, where team members openly discuss the standards of individual practice and critical incidents are a learning opportunity for all.
• To ensure patient notes & information is keep up to date on our patient information system.
• To contribute to the development of professional nursing practice, demonstrating a commitment to disseminating information, sharing experiences, and identifying opportunities for the development of services, and to take responsibility for the accuracy and legibility of patient care records.
• To ensure the East Cheshire Hospice Safeguarding policy is adhered to by being committed to safeguarding the patients, staff and volunteers from harm, and upholds the responsibility as a member of staff, to ensure that any concerns are raised and acted upon immediately. Staff are expected to report concerns, participate in enquiries, and where appropriate develop a protection plan, reflecting on outcomes to develop further.

Management and Personnel duties include:

• To be able to deputise in the absence of the Manager and be responsible for all patient support services if / when in charge of the unit by ensuring an equal and high quality of service for all aspects of care.
• To assist with the induction, orientation and development of new, junior or less experienced staff and volunteers within the team.
• To be responsible for ensuring nursing cover to provide continuity of patient care, by assisting with an effective duty rota.
• To ensure effective communication is maintained within the team, through formal and informal routes.
• To identify and resolve specific managerial problems that may arise within a shift, when in charge. Reporting difficulties to the Sunflower Living Well Centre Manager, and/or Clinical Services Manager.
• To accept responsibility for specific administrative tasks as delegated by the Clinical Services Manager or Sunflower Living Well Centre Manager e.g. monitor systems for the ordering of clinical stores or equipment maintenance and repair.
• To assist in promoting a healthy and safe working environment by ensuring compliance with all legislation and appropriate regulations. This includes establishing and…