Registered Nurse

A Registered Nurse post on the in-patient unit of Southern Hospice Group, a group of hospices across Sussex. The nurse acts as key worker for allocated patients, coordinating their care with the wider team from admission to discharge, and provides specialist palliative nursing while managing medicines safely. The role works a rotating mix of long day and night shifts to cover the unit around the clock.

Applicants need NMC registration and recent experience of supervising junior staff.

• Act as key worker for allocated patients, coordinating their care with the multi-professional team from admission to discharge
• Agree patients' objectives for admission and review them as appropriate
• Ensure safe administration of medicines under NMC and organisational policies
• Recognise and report errors or omissions in medicines administration
• Assess the needs of patients and relatives and refer to other professionals and therapies
• Verify death, notify relatives and carers, and care for the deceased through last offices
• Arrange the safe and timely removal of the body from the hospice
• Run the inpatient unit in the absence of the Team Leader or Ward Sister
• Allocate staff with regard to skill mix and manage staffing, including booking or cancelling bank staff
• Give emotional support to patients and carers, including breaking bad news and around death
• Contribute to bereavement care, including bereavement interviews and assessing bereavement vulnerability
• Give out-of-hours advice on symptom control to other health professionals

• A good standard of general education to GCSE level
• Diploma level qualification or willingness to work towards one

• NMC registration as RGN or RN Adult branch

• Experience of supervising junior staff
• Recent experience of nursing patients with palliative care and/or oncology needs
• Experience of supporting student nurses on placement