Job summary
Hours: per week
Location: PeaceHospice, Watford
Salary: £29,970 per annum
ClosingDate: 29November 2024 at midday
InterviewDate: 9December 2024
The role of the job is to do deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and end of Life nursing care as part of the in-patient unit and multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Youll be responsible for:
Leading on and coordinating assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care.
Ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
Maintaining a respectful non-judgemental and caring attitude ensuring the Rennie Grove Peace Hospice vision and philosophy of care is integral to the care delivered and role undertaken.
The coordination and smooth running of a shift ensuring it is well organised and staff and patients are safe.
Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
About us
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment for our patients and families, and you can play part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life-limiting illness and those who care for them, to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across West Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It's important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people. If 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 Erin Beer, Head of IPU & Coordination Centre on,
Job description
Job responsibilities
To undertake a holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers/families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement needs, using a variety of tools to support the process.
To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs.
To take charge of the Inpatient Unit shift in the absence of the IPU Team Lead.
To regularly attend service meetings, team meeting and other intra hospice meetings, ensuring information is cascaded to colleagues accordingly.
To be an exemplary role model to all peer colleagues, new staff, volunteers and visitors to the service.
Please see the job description for full details
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Essential
2. Registered general nurse
3. Willingness to complete Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care educational
4. programme Example entries:
5. Experience of being part of a multi professional team
6. Experience of shift/caseload management
7. Experience of working with volunteers
8. Effective interpersonal and communication skills
9. IT literate
10. Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
11. Good organisation and negotiation skills
12. Ability to motivate self and others
13. Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
14. Exemplar written skills
15. Flexible attitude to working
16. Willingness to take on extended nursing role
17. Diplomatic but objective
18. Calm and approachable manner
19. Personally and professionally mature and recognises own limitations
20. Willingness to work in other areas of patient services
21. A commitment to the vision, values and objectives of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice
22. Understanding and commitment to the Hospices Equal Opportunities policy.
Desirable
23. Desirable
24. Experience of working within palliative care/long term conditions or an oncology setting
25. At least 1 years post registration is desirable but not essential
26. Experience of participating in a clinical development audit
27. Ability to support change and influence