Hospice Nurse

Permanent Contract

Location: Harrogate Based

Hours: 22.5-30 hours per week (24 hours shift pattern)

£41,179.14 per annum FTE (45% of hours need to be in unsocial hours)

Brand: Saint Michael’s Hospice

Closing Date: 15th July 2025 (the advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications)

Interviews will take place in Harrogate within two weeks of closing date.

Do you want to be part of an organisation that makes a real difference to our local communities? Our family of services including Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’ and Saint Michael’s Hospice provide vital support to people when they need it most. Our vision is of a community where everyone gets the care they need, want and deserve. You can help make that a reality. We are an independent charity powered by local communities. Every day, help to improve quality of life for people living with terminal illness, bereavement and mental health concerns, because our belief is that no one should suffer. Our incredible teams work together to make this happen, whether that’s as a counsellor, nurse, receptionist, fundraiser or one of many other essential roles.

About the role

An exciting opportunity for a registered nurse with a minimum of four years clinical experience (palliative care experience desirable but not essential) to work on our specialist 10-bedded inpatient unit within Saint Michael’s Hospice. You will work alongside our experienced MDT specialist practitioners to deliver excellent standards of care to our inpatients. We offer a robust induction period with clinical competencies required, and you will also benefit from regular training and education on our in-house study days to support your clinical knowledge & development.

What you’ll be doing:

• Planning and delivering patient-centred care, working closely with patients and their families.
• Acting as the ‘shift’ coordinator, overseeing high-quality team nursing care and coordinating wider team care that puts patients at the heart of what we do.
• Acting as the key worker for a designated caseload, showing nursing leadership by providing care as part of a multidisciplinary team.

What we offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Generous 35 days of annual leave (pro rata)
• 8% employer pension contribution
• Wide range of discounts on high street brands and local shops
• Cycle to work scheme
• Recommend a friend bonus

How we look after you:

• We put people first in all that we do, which includes our own team
• Wellbeing and resilience support with a dedicated team by your side
• Flexible and hybrid working for many roles
• A supportive and caring environment
• Opportunities to grow, develop and progress, with culture of lifelong learning

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we are not currently able to consider applicants who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

Don’t quite meet the requirements for this role? We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch via to discuss other opportunities across our family of services.

How to apply:

• Please click Apply and you will be forwarded to our website, where a full job description is available (via the ‘Document Available’ button at the top of the advert).
• Make sure you answer all supplementary questions as part of your application. If you don’t, we’ll have to automatically reject your application.
• Have you been recommended to this role by a current employee as part of our recommend a friend scheme? Don’t forget to let us know after clicking apply.

Our values:

• We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do
• We are caring and compassionate
• We are personal and supportive in our approach
• We engage positively
• We are responsive
• We are driven to do better
• We are fair
• We are professional
• We work collaboratively
• We are accountable

Living out our values:

Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes at saintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities.

We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services, please see our safeguarding statement on our website.

If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing.

We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.

For more information on the role, please contact us on or on 01423 200 145 and we can arrange for you to have an informal discussion with a member of the team.