Staff Nurse - Hospice

Are you a Registered Nurse, passionate about Palliative and End of Life care and looking for a new challenge? We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate part-time Staff Nurse to join our hospice team. This is a rewarding opportunity to provide high-quality, holistic care to patients with life-limiting illnesses and to support their families during some of the most challenging times of their lives.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver person-centred care that promotes dignity, comfort and quality of life, ensuring patients receive exceptional support throughout their hospice journey. Part-time - 22.5 hours a week - you must be able to commit to a variety of shift patterns including nights, lates, earlies, Bank Holidays and weekends on a planned rota basis.

Please note:

we are not part of the NHS and we do not hold a licence to enable visa sponsorship

Main duties of the job As a member of our team you will have excellent opportunities for training and development to enable you to expand your skills within Palliative and End of Life Care. You will be responsible for providing symptom management and complex end of life care to patients living with life limiting conditions. You will be able to make a real difference to peoples lives every single day, supporting our patients and their families.

You will also be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based patient care and for providing invaluable support to the patients family., Overview of Role To ensure the highest standards of individualised care for patients with life threatening diseases including providing support to their families and carers in a safe, friendly and efficient environment. To communicate with patients, families and carers in a sensitive and empathetic way maintaining effective communication with multi-disciplinary team members.

To work part of a multi professional team with professional shared learning under the supervision and guidance of nurses and medical teams. Although based on our Inpatient Unit, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other teams to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care. Key Tasks To provide the highest standards of care to patients.

To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care. Ensure that you always act in the patients best interests, taking personal responsibility for actions and decisions taken. Provide a holistic approach to all care provisions provided that is both sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs. To provide out of hours specialist advice by telephone to patients, carers and allied professionals as required, alerting them to any significant matters.

Give and receive regular reposts on the progress of patients, reporting immediately any changes in the patients condition to the senior nurse/medical personnel as duty as required.,

• Physical capable carrying out manual handling duties as required by this role
• Be prepared to assist with Hospice fundraising
• Support and adopting of Mount battens Values
  You will be a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration, who is able to demonstrate a commitment to their own CPD.
• Able to work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays
• Able to make effective use of available resources to benefit the patients and Mountbatten
• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations, Experience of dealing with vulnerable adults in a care setting
• Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels
• Awareness of palliative care issues
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