Hospice at Home Palliative Care RGN (SMH Band 6)
We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate experienced nurse to join our extraordinary Hospice at Home Team who work as specialist nurses in end-of-life care to support patients at home in the last weeks and days of their lives. This exciting opportunity has become available due to career progression of the previous post holder.
We are looking for a nurse who wishes to specialise in palliative and end of life care, or who already has experience in this area. Passion and a love of the nursing role and making a difference to our patients and their families' lives are key aspirations we are looking for in the successful candidate. Experience of working within the community setting would be an advantage.
Closing date - 30 January 2025
Interview date - 11 February 2025
Main duties of the job
Are you looking for a new challenge in a highly rewarding role? Ever feel like you do not have the time to truly give the care that your patients deserve? Do you want the opportunity to enhance and develop your autonomous clinical assessment skills? Look no further than us at St Michaels Hospice at Home Team.
The Hospice at Home team cover shifts over a 7-day working week. You will also be expected to be able to attend additional training throughout the rotation including mandatory training, local bespoke training and university accredited courses.
We provide good educational & development opportunities, clinical supervision and regular 1:1 support with your line manager to review development needs.
Opportunities to rotate between the inpatient unit and hospice at home services to further develop your knowledge and skills in palliative care and end of life and enhance awareness of the patient and family experience of end-of-life care, can be available as part of career development and progression.
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 references before starting the role.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
The Hospice at Home Team provide both a planned and reactive service to those deemed to be in their final weeks of life requiring specialist palliative care advice and support.
The Hospice at Home Nursing team specialise in providing palliative care and support to patients at the End of Life. The H@H specialists nurses provide clinical assessments, advice on symptom management at end of life and provide clinical interventions to enable the patient to remain at home.
The team are supported by the wider multi-professional team within St. Michaels Hospice.
The service is supplementary to, and works alongside, other health care services within North Hampshire.
You will be responsible for the assessment of the persons 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
1. Proactively assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients based on an agreed plan of care, that supports quality and timely care, in line with their needs.
2. Create and maintain good relationships internally with the wider community palliative care team as well as other community health and social care providers.
3. Provide reactive work to the need of the workload coming in per day, and prioritise appropriately.
4. Mentor, support and supervise the work of junior colleagues, unqualified staff, students, and volunteers.
5. Actively enable the education and development of professionals involved in the care of palliative service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant professional qualification and registration/RN
* Masters degree/modules or working towards.
* Degree/modules in leadership/management or willingness to undertake.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Physical Assessment qualification or willingness to undertake.
* Independent nurse prescriber or willing to undertake.
* Nurse Assessor/Mentor training
Experience
* Substantial post registration experience and experience with supporting patients and relatives through the dying process.
* Demonstrable experience of working with or within an MDT setting.
* Experience of developing and teaching others.
* Advanced assessment and care planning skills.
* Advanced communication skills.
* Work independently as part of the wider nursing team.
* Management and distribution of workload.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate on the telephone and have IT experience.
* Listening, negotiation and influencing skills.
* Demonstrable computer literacy with knowledge of databases, Microsoft, use of email and aptitude to learn computer packages that are essential to the role.
* Demonstrable knowledge and awareness of quality and governance.
* Community experience.
* Ability to effectively manage a clinical service.
* Proactive, influential, motivational leader.
* A positive approach to all aspects of work including influencing, managing and supporting change.
* Quality focused, 'customer care' ethos.
* Resilient practitioner and decision maker.
* Ability to foster positive relationships.
* Diplomatic, honest, behaves with integrity.
* Ability to work on own initiative, independently and as part of a team.
* Confidence and self-awareness of own limitations and professional boundaries.
* Resilient practitioner with the ability to work under pressure from time to time.
* Demonstrates commitment to St Michael's vision and values.
Other requirements
* Full UK driving license.
* Access to transport to travel within the community setting across the SMH catchment area.
* Business use on vehicle insurance.
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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