In-Patient Nurse Associate in Watford

Hours: 37.5 per week (part time hours considered)

Location: Peace Hospice, Watford

Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 4 - £27,485 - £30,162 per annum (pro rata)

Closing date: 27 July 2026 at 12 noon

Interview date: 06 August 2026

What you will do

Rennie Grove Peace services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work a range of long Day shifts across 7 days.

Although based in the Inpatient Unit, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care (e.g. Community).

• Deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life nursing care as part of the In-Patient unit multidisciplinary team.
• Support the Registered Nurse in ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
• Ensure Rennie Grove Peace organisational vision and values are integral to the care delivered and role undertaken.
• As the named nurse provide and monitor the holistic nursing care for an allocated number of patients each shift.
• As a registered associate nurse take responsibility and be accountable for your own actions or omissions, and to act in the best interests of your patients at all times.
• Recognise and work within the limits of their competence as defined by the NMC Code of Conduct for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates.
• Act as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.

What you will need

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Disclosure and Barring Services Check: Enhanced Check
• Professional registration - NMC

For an informal chat about this role contact Erin Beer, IPU Service Manager at erin.beer@renniegrovepeace.org

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Our commitment to Equality and Diversity At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.

If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

The Company

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life-limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

Employee benefits overview At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference. A summary of benefits is below:

• We offer competitive salaries. All roles are benchmarked against the external market and against the NHS pay structure for Clinical employees.
• Plan your future with our Pension scheme options. Standard Life scheme with matched contributions; up to 7% (with a min of 4% employee contribution) or options for continuation in the NHS pension scheme for eligible staff.
• Protected with Life Assurance 2x salary paid in the event of death for eligible employees up to age 75.
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay. Pro-rata for part time roles.
• We pay professional registration fees for eligible employees in clinical roles.
• We reimburse your travel expenses. Eligible employees can claim travel expenses for mileage that qualifies for payment (subject to HMRC rules).
• Additional employee discounts available including retail, entertainment and services discounts, including the Blue Light Card (subject to purchase of membership).

Achieving a work-life balance is important. We want you to enjoy your work and take valuable time out to relax and be with your loved ones. We enable this through the following:

• Flexible working including hybrid, part time, job share (depending on role requirements).
• Generous holiday entitlement 27 days per annum, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 30 days at 5 years and 33 days at 10 years’ service. (Pro-rata for part-time roles)
• Birthday leave.
• Religious holidays. We are mindful of individual requests.

Your health and wellbeing is important, and we offer you options to support you in maintaining your health.

• Health Cash Plan Rennie Grove Peace funded membership for you and up to four children. Membership can be extended to include your partner, at the employee’s expense. Including financial support for health screening, prescriptions, dental/optical, diagnostic tests/consultations, physiotherapy, chiropody, complementary/alternative therapies, as well as virtual GP services and discounted health club membership (subject to eligibility).
• Employee Assistance Programme – free 24/7 confidential service, offering unlimited access to advice, information, coaching and counselling, where appropriate.

We are committed in supporting your personal growth and development and we provide a range of opportunities, including:

• Comprehensive induction programme to help you settle in quickly.
• Regular development conversations with your Line Manager.
• Training and development opportunities including externally funded courses and coaching, where appropriate.
• Specialist palliative training for clinicians and non-clinicians.
• Clinical supervision training and mentoring for clinicians.
• Protected and dedicated time given to learning and developing.
• Employee Voice – fantastic opportunities to join collaborative focus groups.
• Opportunity to develop through our exciting programme of fundraising events and social occasions.