Senior Hospice at Home Nurse/Paramedic

• Hours: 37.5 per week (part time hours can be considered)
• Location: You\’ll be based within the specific Rennie Grove Peace Bucks Locality Area but be required to travel and work flexibly to support service delivery
• Closing date: 28 February 2026 at 12 noon
• Interview date: TBC

Job summary

• Hours: 37.5 per week (part time hours can be considered)
• Location: You\’ll be based within the specific Rennie Grove Peace Bucks Locality Area but be required to travel and work flexibly to support service delivery
• Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 6: £38,682 – £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
• Closing date: 28 February 2026 at 12 noon
• Interview date: TBC

This role will suit someone who is flexible and enjoys the variety of work in a fast-moving environment, has good interpersonal skills, and has strong organisational skills.

Main duties of the job

The role of Senior Hospice at Home Paramedic/Nurse is in place to provide high quality specialist palliative nursing care, advice and support to patients and their carers.

• You would work on a varied shift pattern, which could consist of Early shifts, Late shifts and Day shifts.
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide a high standard of individualised patient/family care and support.
• To be responsible for patients on a daily basis, to ensure that excellent standards of support and clinical practice and care are achieved.
• Contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of interventions and treatments by managing virtual and in-person reviews in patients homes.
• Improve patient outcomes and experience by incorporating physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care.
• To work with wider Hospice team to support delivery of care and enable patients to remain in their preferred place of care

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 and 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.

Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• 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.
• To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centredcare.
• Ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
• To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace Care staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered general Nurse
• Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
• Non-medical prescribing Qualification of willingness to complete.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• 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.
• Be a perfect match with our values:
• We are caring and compassionate,
• We engage and empower,
• We strive for excellence,
• We develop and innovate,
• We respect and value

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.
• Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.

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.