Community Senior Hospice at Home Nurse (Night Team) in England

Rennie Grove Peace's night hospice at home team delivers palliative and end of life care in patients' own homes, working from Peace Hospice. The core is specialist symptom control, syringe driver care and SOS calls, with the nurse planning care largely alone alongside a healthcare assistant and another nurse. What sets this post apart is the night pattern: three 9.5-hour shifts a week from 21:15 to 07:15 across seven days. Fit rests on current NMC registration and post-registration experience in a relevant setting.

What the job involves:

• Deliver and coordinate specialist palliative and end of life care in patients' homes on the night service.
• Respond to SOS and unplanned calls, acting within competence and escalating when needed.
• Assess, plan and evaluate care autonomously within agreed plans.
• Carry out holistic assessment of patients and those close to them, and develop, deliver and evaluate individualised care plans.
• Deliver fundamental and complex interventions in the home, including symptom management within the RGP medicines framework and syringe driver care.
• Verify expected death once competent.
• Provide hands‑on care, including crisis response and unplanned visits.
• Run a safe, well‑organised shift while working alone with a healthcare assistant and another qualified nurse.
• Communicate sensitive information with skill, supporting families before and after bereavement.
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous records and hand over clearly across shifts and services.
• Work within your competence, recognise its limits and escalate appropriately.

What’s required:

• Registration & licences: Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse.
• Experience: Post‑registration experience in community, acute, long‑term conditions, oncology or palliative care. Experience of coordinating a shift or caseload and of supervising or delegating to support staff.
• Skills & knowledge: Assesses, plans and evaluates care autonomously, and recognises when escalation is needed. Communicates skilfully in emotionally demanding situations, including with people who are dying and their families. Plans and prioritises a shift of visits across a locality, adjusting as demand changes. Confident use of an electronic patient record and Microsoft 365.

Other: Shows how they work in line with RGP's values of compassion, support, inclusion and collaboration, with examples matching RGP's behavioural indicators.

Nice to have:

• Post‑registration study in palliative care or a related area, or completion of an agreed module within 18 months with RGP support.
• Practice supervisor or assessor preparation, with RGP support.
• Experience of specialist palliative care.
• Experience of audit or quality improvement.
• Experience as a champion or link role.