Inpatient Unit Staff Nurse in Waterford

Deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life nursing care as part of the In-Patient Unit multidisciplinary team. This role will suit someone who:

• An experienced nurse who would like to be part of an IPU which aims to ensure equity of access to Rennie Grove and Peace services.
• Works under pressure with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Can quickly build trusting, empathetic and caring relationships with volunteers, customers, employees and head office teams, not forgetting local traders and the community.
• Is flexible and enjoys the variety of work in a fast-moving environment.
• Has good interpersonal skills.
• Has strong organisational skills.

Main duties of the job:

• Leading on and coordinating assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care.
• Ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
• Maintaining a respectful non-judgemental and caring attitude ensuring the Rennie Grove Peace Hospice vision and philosophy of care is integral to the care delivered and role undertaken.
• The coordination and smooth running of a shift ensuring it is well organised and staff and patients are safe.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.

About us:

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice 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. 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.

Job responsibilities:

• To undertake a 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 needs, using a variety of tools to support the process.
• To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs.
• To be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that is responsive to the individual patients requirements.
• To be able to communicate highly sensitive and often contentious information, ensuring patients and their families/carers are adequately supported.
• To be able to demonstrate through documentation, and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.
• To participate in keeping accurate and legible records in accordance with existing practice and procedure at the Peace Hospice.
• To be aware of the legal requirements associated with keeping such records.
• To be an active member of the MDT contributing to the presentation, decision making of the patients care planning.
• To be able to communicate effectively to own team, extended team and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings/home.
• To take charge of the Inpatient Unit shift in the absence of the IPU Team Lead.
• To regularly attend service meetings, team meetings and other intra hospice meetings, ensuring information is cascaded to colleagues accordingly.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications Essential: Registered General Nurse
• Additional Criteria Essential: Willingness to complete Rennie Grove Hospice Care educational programme. Experience of being part of a multi professional team. Experience of shift/caseload management. A good understanding of technology with a working knowledge of Microsoft office packages i.e Word, Excel and Outlook. 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. Flexible attitude to working. 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.
• Desirable: Experience of working within palliative care/long term conditions or an oncology setting. Experience of participating in a clinical development audit. Ability to support change and influence. Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers. Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.