Eden Valley Hospice and Jigsaw Children's Hospice
Eden Valley Hospice is a dynamic and responsive specialist care provider for people with palliative and end of life care needs. We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our energetic, friendly, specialist palliative care team on our inpatient unit.
Based in Carlisle, we have a 10-bed adult inpatient unit, a children's hospice, outreach and wellbeing services, and patient and family support. We work collaboratively across the county with strong links to other care providers.
The hospice's vision is to provide excellence in specialist palliative care and to ensure patients receive consistently high standards of care in all care settings within the organisation.
Eden Valley Hospice provides a creative and unique environment with many opportunities for personal and professional growth and pay progression. A willingness to advance skills is therefore essential. There is a culture of reflection, training, support, and development for all staff, with access to regular clinical supervision and training.
Our preference would be for the post holder to work various shifts (12 hours) on rotation between days, nights, and weekends.
Interviews will take place on Monday 3rd February 2025.
Main duties of the job
As a Registered Nurse, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team and will be responsible for planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating person-centred and evidence-based palliative care for patients, families, and carers. Due to excellent staff-to-patient ratios, you will have time to care for and build relationships with patients and their families.
Job responsibilities
Purpose
As part of a multi-disciplinary team, plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate person-centred and evidence-based palliative care to patients, families, and carers.
Contribute to the Hospice vision of providing excellence in specialist palliative care.
Act as a role model to support other members of the team to ensure that high standards of care are delivered.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Understand and act in accordance with The NMC Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives, and nursing associates, and fulfil all registration requirements.
2. Understand and apply relevant legal, regulatory, and governance requirements, policies, and ethical frameworks, including any mandatory reporting duties, to all areas of practice.
3. Use appropriate research methods, ethics, and governance in order to critically analyse, safely use, share, and apply research findings to promote and inform best nursing practice.
4. Communicate effectively, to an advanced level, using a range of skills and strategies with colleagues, wider MDT, external contacts, patients, and their families.
5. Develop, manage, and maintain appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers, and colleagues.
6. Demonstrate the numeracy, literacy, digital, and technological skills required to ensure safe and effective nursing practice and to keep complete, clear, accurate, and timely records.
7. Take responsibility for continuous self-reflection, seeking and responding to support and feedback to develop professional knowledge and skills, including clinical supervision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered nurse at degree level, or relevant experience
* Willing to undertake further qualifications
Experience
* Working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team
* Assessing patient needs and planning, coordinating, and evaluating care
* Specialist palliative care experience
* Experience of nursing terminally ill patients and caring for their families
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey messages in a clear and sensitive manner
* Ability to develop beneficial working relationships and interact with people at all levels
* Demonstrable resilience to working with those facing loss and bereavement
* Ability to work effectively under pressure and in a demanding environment
* Ability to plan, prioritise, and delegate work effectively, evidencing a motivated and enthusiastic attitude
* Evidence of ongoing continuous development
* Up-to-date knowledge of care practices and interventions
* Ability to contribute to the learning environment
Other
* Flexible approach
* Physical ability to work 12-hour shifts with sustained periods on feet and moving and handling of patients
* Ability to evidence behaviour consistent with the Hospice values of professionalism, caring, respect, and dignity
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.
Eden Valley Hospice and Jigsaw Children's Hospice
£30,834 to £32,887 a year* FTE salaries are based on 37.5 hours
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