Senior Nurse (Hospice / Palliative Care) in Thirsk

Senior Nurse Hospice and Palliative Care

Contract: Permanent

Location: Thirsk Based

Hours: 30-37.5 hours per week (includes nights and weekends)

Salary: £45,969.69 per annum FTE (split of 55% of shifts in social hours/45% unsocial)

Closing Date: Friday 13th February 2026 (the advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications)

Are you an experienced registered nurse looking for an opportunity to use your clinical expertise and leadership skills to make a real difference? Would you like to join an organisation where compassionate care, professional development and strong teamwork go hand in hand?

We are looking for a Senior Nurse to play an essential role in delivering outstanding end-of-life care while supporting and developing our incredible team. You’ll be joining us at an exciting time as we welcome our first in-patients at our brand-new Hospice at the Lambert in Thirsk.

Our family of services - Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just B and Saint Michaels 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, and you can help make that a reality.

We are an independent charity powered by local communities. Every day, we 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.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Nurse on our inpatient unit at Herriot Hospice, you’ll play a key role, helping to shape high-quality, patient-centred hospice care. Alongside delivering expert clinical care, you’ll provide value-led leadership, supporting and developing others, promoting best practice, and contributing to the ongoing improvement of our services.

In this role, you’ll:

• Deliver expert palliative and end-of-life care with empathy and professionalism.
• Take clinical leadership on shift, supporting and guiding the wider nursing and care team.
• Act as a mentor and role model, promoting championing continuous learning and a positive team culture.
• Play an active role in service improvement, clinical audits, and governance.

This Senior Nurse role is based in Thirsk, North Yorkshire and is commutable from areas including Ripon, Darlington, Durham, York and Teesside.

You will need to be an experienced and compassionate Senior Nurse with strong clinical judgement and the confidence to lead and support others.

About us

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 are responsive
• 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.

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

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.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

• To provide on shift leadership and management of our Hospice Nurses and HealthCare Assistants to deliver patient-centred care and support
• To be part of the inpatient services management team to deliver service improvements to clinical services
• To support others and to be able to independently plan and deliver patient-centred care, working closely with patients and their families.
• Act as the shift coordinator, and teach others to do so, overseeing high-quality team nursing care and coordinating wider team care that puts patients at the heart of what we do.
• To act as the key worker for a designated caseload, showing nursing leadership by providing care as part of a multidisciplinary team.

For more details please see job description.

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse with NMC Nursing Degree or suitable alternative
• Have or be prepared to work towards practice assessors qualification
• Current Practical experience of Nursing in a clinical setting
• Ability to plan, deliver, and evaluate nursing care
• Ability to assess complex patient needs and escalate appropriately if required
• A good level of understanding and interest in Palliative Care and End of Life Care
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent record keeping skills and documentation
• IT literate with the ability to use Microsoft and Outlook as a minimum
• Understanding of Infection Control
• European Palliative Care Certificate or specific palliative care post graduate learning
• Demonstrable experience of leading the care for patients at end of life or requiring symptom control
• Understanding of Clinical Audit

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.