Staff Nurse - Woodlands Hospice in Liverpool

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join Woodlands Hospice, based on the Aintree University Hospital site. We are looking for a compassionate and motivated nurse to join our dedicated Inpatient Unit team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager and Senior Nurses to ensure the delivery of high quality, patient centred care. Applicants should have experience in palliative care or demonstrate a strong interest in developing their skills in this specialist area. You must be able to work effectively within a busy, fast paced environment, providing excellent standards of care while upholding the values and high expectations of Woodlands Hospice. If you are committed to making a meaningful difference to patients and their families during some of the most challenging times of their lives, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job:

• Perform comprehensive assessment of patients nursing needs.
• Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs and varying levels of complexity for patients requiring specialist palliative care.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
• Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patients needs are met, especially in relation to discharge planning.
• Safely administer medicines, infusions and blood transfusions as prescribed.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives including sharing sensitive news.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
• Act as a link nurse and resource for other nursing staff for a specific area of patient care.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Registered nurse with current NMC registration, Diploma in Nursing.
• Experience: Post registration experience and successful completion of Band 5 foundation gateway competencies, Experience within relevant clinical setting, Evidence of working with students, Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment, Recent acute hospital experience, including as a student nurse.
• Skills: Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately, Ability to work as part of a team, Ability to support less experienced staff, Ability to problem solve, Good written and verbal communication skills, Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing.
• Other: Supportive of colleagues, Ability to work in changing environments, Committed to high standards of patient care, Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour, Maintain both personal and professional development, Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
• Knowledge: Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance, Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.

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The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.