An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse to join our Willen at Home team on a 12-month fixed term basis. We are welcoming candidates looking for a truly rewarding position, who want to deliver the highest quality of care and demonstrate our Hospice Values, and are keen to join a caring, compassionate and diverse multi-disciplinary team delivering care of the highest quality. This appointment is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, including Barred lists. Interview Date - to be confirmed.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be a Registered Nurse, with at least 6 months post-registration experience; you will have the responsibility for the assessment of patient needs, planning, delivering, and evaluating care in the patients' own environment. It's all about giving our patients the best possible quality of life, the support we offer is tailored to meet individuals' medical, social, spiritual, and emotional needs.
The ideal candidate should demonstrate knowledge and experience working in the community and/or in palliative care and should participate in education and training activities.
As the role is community-based, you should be confident working alone, must hold a driving license, and own your own car.
About us
Set in the tranquil grounds of Willen Lake, Willen Hospice is the leading provider of specialist palliative care within the Milton Keynes area. We offer 24-hour/seven days a week palliative care to people who have advanced disease, caring for people in our Inpatient Unit which accommodates 15 patients and the local community. Our person-centred care is delivered with compassion and respect for people's wishes. We have an expanding Therapeutic & Wellbeing service offering Psychological Wellbeing, Social Care, Physiotherapy, Occupational, and Complementary Therapy.
In return for your skills and experience, you can expect:
1. To join a supportive and caring team.
2. Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 35 days pro rata (inclusive of statutory and bank holidays).
3. Free onsite parking at the Hospice.
4. Employer enhanced auto-enrolment pension scheme or continued membership of the NHS pension scheme for clinically registered staff.
5. Enhanced maternity, adoption, and sick pay provision.
6. Ongoing commitment to education and professional development.
7. Blue Light Card discounts (with membership).
8. Excellent on-site subsidised catering facilities.
9. Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
For more information, please visit our website.
Job responsibilities
1. Continual assessment of patients and their carers' needs, when those needs are complex and change across the caseload.
2. Undertake nursing interventions (such as providing personal care to patients, administration of prescribed medication through a variety of routes, tissue viability care, ensuring infusion pumps are working correctly) consistent with evidence-based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet individual patients' needs.
3. Provide psychosocial support to patients in emotional distress and their distressed families and provide a high standard of evidence-based information to them.
4. Communicating effectively with multidisciplinary health care professionals, medical and social work colleagues, patients, carers, and managers across organisational boundaries.
5. Manage the workload and liaise with MDT in the absence of the Lead Nurse.
6. Participate in the delivery of formal educational training to carers and RNs in the community.
7. Participate in audit/research projects in order to achieve best practice.
8. Participate in champion role work within the team to promote evidence-based practice and share learning with the wider team.
Person Specification
Experience
* Generalist nursing knowledge, ideally with palliative and end-of-life care experience.
Qualifications
* Degree qualified registered nurse with a minimum of 6 months post-qualification or suitable experience.
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.
£27,534 to £31,665 a year per annum, pro rata plus 10% shift allowance.
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