Senior Hospice at Home Community Nurse/Paramedic Watford

Job Summary

Hours: 34.5 hours per week (3 shifts of 11.5 hours per week)

Location: Rennie Grove Peace Watford & Hertsmere Locality

Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 6 - £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)

Closing date: 06 August at 12 noon

Interview date: TBC

Main duties of the job

• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home to provide palliative and end of life care.
• Lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care.
• Ensure a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
• Responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• Act as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the Lone Worker policy and procedure requirements.

About us

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness. We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years). Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces. We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.

Job responsibilities

• Undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers/families physical, emotional spiritual, practical, welfare right and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement need, using a variety of tools to support the process.
• Develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs, including ongoing referrals to other services as required.
• Deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that are responsive to the individual patients requirements.
• Communicate highly sensitive information, ensuring patients and their families/carers are adequately supported.
• Demonstrate through electronic and paper documentation and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.
• Lead on initial holistic assessment and reviews of care when required and discharge planning from service.
• Communicate effectively to own team, extended team and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings/home.
• Follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to Medicine Management.
• Be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required during identified shifts.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered general Nurse
• Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
• Non-medical prescribing Qualification or willingness to complete.
• Experience of shift/caseload management.
• Able to build good working relationships.
• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Good administrative and record keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
• Be a perfect match with our values.
• Understanding of current palliative care matters.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• IT literate and experience of using an electronic patient record system.
• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations.
• Good organisation and negotiation skills.
• Ability to motivate self and others.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Ability to support change and influence.
• Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
• Exemplar written skills.
• Willingness to undertake a nominated extended role (champion/mentor).
• Diplomatic but objective.
• Calm and approachable manner.
• Flexible attitude to working.
• Personally and professionally mature and recognise own limitations.
• Willingness to work in other areas of patient services.
• A commitment to the visions, values and objectives of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.
• Understanding and commitment to organisations equal opportunities policy.

Desirable

• Experience of working within palliative care/long term conditions/in an oncology setting.
• Experience of participating in clinical audit/quality management.
• Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name: Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

Address: Peace Drive, Watford, WD17 3PH, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://renniegrovepeace.org/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Recruitment Team, recruitment@renniegrovepeace.org