Were looking for a compassionate Palliative Care Nurse to provide high-quality end-of-life care for patients and their families. Youll manage complex symptoms, administer medications, and offer specialist advice, ensuring dignity and comfort in every step of the patients journey.
Youll coordinate care, support healthcare assistants, and work closely with families and the multidisciplinary team. If youre a dedicated nurse with a passion for palliative care and strong leadership skills, apply now to make a real difference.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
* Plan, implement, and evaluate care for patients, ensuring all practices are evidence-based.
* Provide specialist advice on symptom management and act as a link nurse in specific areas such as diabetes.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the best outcomes for patients and their families.
* Communicate sensitively with patients, families, and carers, providing emotional support where needed.
* Supervise and mentor healthcare assistants, junior staff, and volunteers, promoting best practices in palliative care.
* Contribute to quality improvement initiatives, audits, and service development projects to enhance care delivery.
* Ensure a safe, clean environment, adhering to health and safety, infection control, and medication management protocols.
About us
St Michael's Hospice is nestled in the stunning Herefordshire countryside, in a state-of-the-art facility. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, a transferrable NHS pension or you can enrol onto our own Hospice pension. We have a Life Assurance, and we offer a superb working environment and facilities, generous study leave allowance, discounts with local suppliers, individualised training needs analysis, advanced communication skills training, employee counselling service, free tea & coffee, a friendly & welcoming work environment, 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
We are one of the top 100 best not for profit organisations to work for and have been caring to make a difference, to patients living with a terminal illness and their families, across Herefordshire and beyond for nearly 40 years.
Job responsibilities
Job Title: RegisteredNurse
Spinal Point Range: 13,15,18
Hours: Negotiable
Reports to: Senior RegisteredNurse
Job Purpose: To deliverhigh quality palliative and end of life nursing care to patients and theirfamilies
ResponsibilityAreas:
CareProvision
* Using clinical judgement to plan, implement and evaluate holisticcare for patients with complex palliative needs.
* To ensure nursing practice is evidence based.
* Administer medications adhering to NMC and hospice policies.
* Verify death, complete care after death and orchestrate theremoval of deceased patients from the Hospice.
* Provide specialist advice on symptom management to GPs or otherprofessionals, patients and families within sphere of competence.
* To act as a link nurse in selected specialism e.g. diabetes.
* To understand the breadth of Hospice services and those offered byexternal agencies and signpost patients and families appropriately
* Ensure and maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at alltimes in line with NMC Code of Conduct and Hospice policy.
* Promote a rehabilitative palliative care approach enabling peopleto live fully until they die.
Planning
* Delegate activities for Heath Care Assistants and Senior HealthCare Assistants for specific patients on a shift by shift basis.
* Manage and prioritise own workload according to patient and familyneed; in the absence of senior nursing colleagues co-ordinate and manageworkload across the team.
* Undertake risk assessments, document these and implement riskreducing measures escalating to senior colleagues as appropriate.
* Is proactive in ensuring hospice skills, expertise andprofessional resources e.g. multi-disciplinary team discussions and reviewmeetings, are used to best effect to ensure the appropriate and timely responseto patients.
* To participate in the admission and bed allocation process in theabsence of senior nursing colleagues.
* To plan timely patient discharge from admission.
Communication
* Communicate and liaise with relatives and carers regarding patientstatus, understanding the sensitivities and complexities of each situation.
* Provide accurate written and verbal holistic reports in line withthe Hospice and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance to colleaguesduring handover on patient condition, including any concerns or changes.
* Encourage patients/relatives/carers to express what is importantto them, to identify their needs, to ensure that this information is recordedand informs the care plan.
* Promote collaborative working and effective communication betweenall members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Ensure the nursing voice is represented in ethical decisionmaking.
* Recognise own limitations when offering emotional support.
* Respond to complaints in line with Hospice policy, escalating asappropriate.
* Promote awareness of child and adult protection issues policy andguidelines.
ProfessionalLeadership
* Act as a role model in all aspects of clinical and non-clinicalnursing practice.
* To provide formal and informal clinical supervision, support andmentorship.
* To deliver informal and formal training sessions for staff andothers.
* Provide volunteers with information required to enable them togive appropriate care to patients and their visitors.
* Deputise in the absence of the senior nursing colleagues.
Quality,Improvement, Audit and Research.
* To contribute to audits and evaluation of work in order to developand improve palliative/end of life care for patients and their carers.
* To embrace quality improvement initiatives and to deliverevidence-based service development projects.
* Facilitates and participates in reflective reviews of palliativecare.
* Ensure clinical incidents /near misses are recorded and managed ina timely manner and take action to minimise risk.
Health andSafety
* Act at all times to promote the safety and wellbeing of patients,visitors and volunteers.
* Ensure the environment is free from hazards and all nursingequipment is clean, in good working order, safely and appropriately used andstored.
* Responsible for the timely disposal and documentation of clinicalwaste and Laundry.
* Safe storage and use of hazardous substances according to COSHHregulations.
* Checking building, ensuring that environment is clean and tidy.
* Be aware of own limitations and when to seek advice and help.
* Adhere to the Infection control practices on the Inpatient unit.
* Adhere to the safe storage of medicines and hazardous substancespolicy and processes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Advanced Communication Skills Course
* Teaching and Mentorship Qualification
Experience
* Experience and broad knowledge of general nursing care
* Knowledge of national and local health initiatives
* Keyboard basic IT functions
* Experience and knowledge of specialist palliative care
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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