Inpatient Unit Staff Nurse in Essex

St Clare Hospice is a charity that provides specialist palliative care to patients and families in West Essex and the East Hertfordshire borders. Are you passionate about delivering truly person‑centred care in a hospice setting where time, compassion, and dignity are prioritised? At St Clare Hospice, we offer a rare opportunity to work in an environment where you can focus on what matters most - providing outstanding palliative and end‑of‑life care with the time and space to do it properly.

We are currently recruiting to our 8‑bedded Inpatient Unit, a calm and supportive space where patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do. You do not need to be an expert in palliative care to join our team - what matters most is your compassion, commitment, and willingness to learn. We are looking for the right person, and we will support you with full training and development to help you thrive in your role.

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team to provide a high standard of specialist palliative care to patients and their families.
• To lead the shift, ensuring that high standards of care across the IPU are maintained.

About us

At St Clare Hospice, our vision is that every adult with a life limiting condition in our local communities should have access to palliative care services wherever and whenever they need them, so that they can make the most of every moment, no matter how long they have left to live. Our many different services provide patients, their families and carers, with physical, emotional, social, psychological and spiritual support, at home, or here at the Hospice. Our Inpatient Unit (IPU) has eight single, en‑suite rooms where we care for patients who have been admitted for symptom management and/or end of life care.

Job responsibilities

• To be a safe practitioner and work within the NMC Code of professional standards of practice and behaviour.
• Provide holistic assessment of patients and families care needs, plan interventions required and ensure those interventions are actioned and their effectiveness evaluated.
• To communicate effectively with patients and families, ensuring they are actively involved with their own care planning.
• To support patients and families through grief and loss and the life changing consequences of a palliative diagnosis.
• To liaise with appropriate members of the multi‑professional team (internal and external to the organisation) in order to ensure co‑ordination and continuity of care on discharge and a smooth transition between different care settings.
• To maintain clear, accurate and legible patient documentation.
• To work across the 24‑hour service, including weekends, nights and bank holidays as required.

Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of personal professional development
• Qualification in specialist palliative care
• Experience and awareness and understanding of the needs of patients receiving palliative and end of life care
• Experience of working in a palliative care environment
• Experience of teaching/presenting

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.

£32,610 to £38,762 a year inclusive of High Cost Area Allowance.