Job summary
Nottinghamshire Hospice offers staff the unique privilege to walk alongside patients and their families at this significant time of their lives while providing compassionate care and support. We deliver high-quality, excellent palliative care for patients across Nottinghamshire for those living with a life-limiting condition. We care for patients, families and their friends, both before and after death.
As part of the Hospice in Your Home Team the post holder will work as a Registered Nurse to support palliative and end of life care patients within their own home. This may include help with personal care, assistance with moving and handling and emotional support symptom management. The HIYH Team provides Hospice at Home and Hospice Night Support services over twenty four hours, seven days per week, including Bank Holidays and shifts are allocated on a roster basis. You will therefore be required to work in both a one to one capacity for a full support shift in a patients home in a lone worker capacity and in a pair, to provide a responsive, mobile service undertaking shorter visits to several patients across the shift.
Salary Information: £30,495 per annum (Basic annual salary). There will be further enhancements for, night, weekend and Bank holiday working.
Main duties of the job
We are offering contracts of thirty six, twenty seven, eighteen hours per week worked over four or three or two nine-hour shifts.
Further enhancements for weekend and Bank holiday working
You will provide high quality clinically based palliative and end of life nursing care, for patients who wish to be cared for at home. This includes supporting families and carers with helping patients to remain in their preferred place of care whilst working collaboratively with Community Nursing and Social Care Teams. The role requires travel within the geographical boundaries of Nottinghamshire Hospices referral criteria.
The post holder will work alongside the HIYH Registered Nurse Leads and will act as the RN Shift Lead as required. You will be required to undertake line management responsibility for an allocated group of Palliative Care Assistants contracted and Health Care Assistants Bank.
The post holder must be a Registered Nurse with post registration experience, knowledge and skills to deliver generic palliative care in the community. Support will be given to the postholder to develop their career ambitions. You must possess a full UK driving license and have access to a vehicle.
About us
Our mission is to add life to every day for people who have been told their illness cannot be cured, helping them to live as actively and well as possible with care that puts them at the front of everything we say and do
Our Values
Compassion - We are focused on being inclusive, being kind, and having empathy empowering others having, integrity, and being patient
Trust - We are focused on, being authentic, unified, loyal, accountable, trustworthy, responsible, reliable and professional.
Ambition - We are focused on the growth of the Hospice, being
courageous, getting the right outcomes, and results, improvement of our services, being the best version of ourselves for the benefit of each other and our service users.
We offer our staff - five weeks holiday pay plus Bank Holidays, Pension Scheme, Medical cover, Staff referral scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, including private GP access, National retail and attractions discount scheme, Free DBS check and Uniform.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached JD to outline the responsibilities of the advertised job role for a Registered Nurse
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Please see attached JD