Job summary
PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE DIRECTLY ON OUR WEBSITE BY PASTING THE LINK BELOW:
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This is an exciting opportunity to join the Ward team, as a qualified Staff Nurse, to help deliver expert care.
Main duties of the job
Are you a committed, compassionate Nursing professional? Would you find it rewarding to high levels of holistic and individualised patient care to provide support and make a difference when it matters most?
Do you bring professionalism and passion to your work? Then we would love to hear from you!
This post is offered on a full time, permanent basis, working 37.5 hours per week. These hours are worked on a shift basis, over day and night shifts.Please note, we offer additional pay enhancements for weekend and night working.
About us
St Catherines Hospice is a respected local charity providing specialist hospice care alongside statutory service partners (GPs, District nursing etc) across West Sussex and East Surrey.
We provide care in communities across Surrey and Sussex which are richly diverse and we want to reflect that in everything we do. We celebrate and support difference and welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you believe in the importance of what we do, share our values and want to be a part of an outstanding team building something important, wed love to hear from you.
Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
- Generous annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with length of service, plus Bank Holidays, and an opportunity to buy / sell annual leave days. Plus we offer a day off for volunteering & moving house.
- Generous Pension scheme with up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension.
- Life Assurance Scheme, Counselling Offering, and a range of discounts.
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Staff Nurse role will bring:
- Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team
- Providing high levels of care to patients and their families, alongside Healthcare Assistants, Student Nurses & Volunteers
- Evidence based clinical knowledge and excellent communication during assessment, implementation, and evaluation of all aspects of patient care and treatment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A good standard of Education, Minimum GCSE English & Maths or equivalent
- Registered Nurse qualification
Desirable
- Evidence of professional development in the speciality of palliative care
- Diploma in Palliative
- Care/Oncology/Community or working towards
- Mentorship qualification
- Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Ability to plan, implement and evaluate care
- Good communication skills, both oral and written
- Drug calculation skills and awareness
- of the NMC Standards of Medicines Management
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Organisation skills: to organise self and workload
- IT skills and a willingness to undertake supportive training to use SystmOne - a computerised notes documentation system essential to the role
- Up to date evidence of minimum level competency in: Communication, Clinical practice
- Ability to direct /supervise nursing assistants, students and volunteers.
- Ability to mentor junior team members/ teaching skills
- Ability to motivate others
- Ability to operate in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Ability to demonstrate awareness of national developments related to practice
Desirable
- Some post qualification experience (at least 3 months), general nursing experience
- Previous palliative care experience
- Community experience
- Previous acute medical ward experience
- Experience of working in settings other than hospital
- Oncology experience / knowledge
- Previous acute medical ward experience
- A knowledge of hospice and national initiatives relating to palliative care
- Evidence of minimum level competency in: Leadership Education and Training, Grief, Loss and Bereavement, Quality, Management
- IV skills
- Sound knowledge of hospice and palliative care approach and philosophy
- Ability to demonstrate awareness of Hospice developments related to practice
- Willingness to undertake further study
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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
St Catherine’s Hospice
Address
St. Catherines Hospice
St Catherine's Hospice
Grace Holland Avenue
Pease Pottage
West Sussex
RH11 9SL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
Staff Nurse employer: St Catherine'S Hospice
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