Hospice at Home / Access Team Registered Nurse

Hospice at Home/ Access Team Registered Nurse Hospice Band: 5Hours: Full & Part Time PositionsStarting Salary: Hospice Band 5 Step1 £35,813 WTE per annum (based on 37.5 hours per week) (rising to Step 2 £39,736 WTE per annum subject to satisfactory performance review) + Unsocial Hours Shift Allowance + Pension + BenefitsSt Columba\’s exists to give everyone who needs it the very best hospice care. We\’re an independent charity at the heart of our local community, offering free, flexible and person-centred palliative care and support to our patients and their families.Our Hospice at Home/ Access Team provides specialist advice, guidance and support to patients and their families in the community, wherever they call home. This role is a rational post, involving working across all three teams within the service. Part of the Hospice at Home/ Access Team Registered Nurse role involves working within our Access Team – the single point of access to support our patients and families, to triage the support they need and signpost to the help that we can provide. It also involves working within our Community Palliative Care team, supporting patients and families through our face to face, telephone advisory service. Lastly it also incorporates working within our Virtual Ward service, providing an enhanced level of hands-on care and support to patients within their homes. As well as advising on symptom control, medicines and treatments, our nurses ensure people are getting the practical help they need, from agencies such as Social Work Home Care. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring and compassionate registered nurse to join our Hospice at Home / Access Team Service. This is a rotational post, required to work across all three teams as required. The first year will be to work within our Virtual Ward Hospice Team for a period of one year, and laterally across the Hospice at Home team, our Access Team. You’ll be a Registered Nurse with excellent communication skills and an interest in palliative care, working within the community. The Registered Nurse will be responsible for ongoing holistic assessment and planning of care to meet the patients and carers practical, psychological, spiritual and social needs. The post at times may require you to support Inpatient Unit with sickness absence cover. A valid driving licence and use of a car is essential for this post. Successful candidates will benefit from our comprehensive training and education programme.TO APPLY:For more information including an application form and job description, click the \’Apply\’ button above to visit our Hospice website. We welcome enquiries about our vacancies. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Mandy Murray / Helen Gray, using the contact details on our website.MORE INFORMATION:This post requires the post holder to have a criminal records check at a PVG scheme record update level. An application will be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post. A joint application will be made which the Hospice will pay for.St Columba\’s Hospice Care is an independent Scottish Charity, SC003634, regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). Scotland’s first modern hospice, it first opened its doors in 1977. Over the years it has grown and evolved into an exemplary provider of specialist palliative care for thousands of people with life-limiting illnesses in Edinburgh and the Lothians annually, while also providing support to their relatives and loved ones. The Hospice offers competitive rates of pay, generous pension contributions, annual leave allowance and occupational sick pay entitlements that increase with length of service at St Columba\’s Hospice, and a supportive and rewarding place to work, with our own on-site education and research team – we\’re an Investor in People organisation! For a full summary of terms and conditions of employment please click on to our website using the Apply refer to the vacancy pack for the role you are interested in.