Community Palliative Response Senior Nurse - Overnight Service
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm to 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients' home environment, including, as required, in care homes. Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace care settings to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.
Main duties of the job
1. Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
2. Respond to SOS calls visiting patients in their own homes to provide palliative and end-of-life care.
3. Lead on and coordinate assessment, planning, and evaluation of individualised patient-centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients' ever-changing needs.
4. Be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
5. Act as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
6. As a lone worker, be responsible for your own and others' safety by adhering to the lone worker policy and procedure requirements.
About us
If your application is successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.
For an informal chat about this role contact Ursula Reeves, Head of Community Services at Ursula.reeves@renniegrovepeace.org.
Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time; therefore, we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
Our commitment to Equality and Diversity: At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
Job responsibilities
1. Undertake holistic needs assessments that explore individual patients and their carers' physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare rights, and if appropriate, the families' pre and post-bereavement needs.
2. Develop, update, and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient-centred and support the identified patient needs, including ongoing referrals to other services as required.
3. Deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that are responsive to the individual patients' requirements.
4. Communicate highly sensitive information, ensuring patients and their families/carers are adequately supported.
5. Demonstrate through electronic and paper documentation and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.
6. Lead on initial holistic assessments and reviews of care when required and discharge planning from service.
7. Communicate effectively with own team, extended team, and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings/home.
8. Follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to medicine management. On identified shifts, be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls, and referrals as required.
9. Signpost and inform patients and their families/carers of the range of services available to them, external resources, and day-to-day information relating to the service.
10. Attend relevant MDT meetings as appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
* Registered General Nurse / Paramedic.
* Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to specialty or evidence of transferable experience.
* Significant post-registration palliative, oncology, or long-term conditions experience.
* Experience of shift/caseload management.
* Able to build good working relationships.
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
* Good administrative and record-keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
* Strong organisational skills.
* Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
* Understanding of current palliative care matters.
* Mentorship course or willingness to undertake mentorship responsibility.
* Experience of working within palliative care/long-term conditions/in an oncology setting.
* Experience of participating in clinical audit/quality management.
* Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
* Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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