Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Location:

Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice, Thorpe Road, Longthorpe, Peterborough PE3 6LW
. Full and part time hours available. Salary: £ per hour (plus enhancements and competitive benefits).

Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice is the only specialist palliative care inpatient unit in Peterborough. We support people aged 18 and over who are living with life-limiting conditions such as cancer, heart failure and lung disease. The expert team on our inpatient unit combine specialist medical care for managing pain and other symptoms, with emotional, practical and spiritual support. Our wellbeing and community support team are here to listen too.

Our Hospice at Home service is available seven days a week and provides care to patients with a life limiting illness who wish to be cared for at home at the end of their life.

In palliative care no day is the same. Working on our inpatient unit provides a unique opportunity because we care for patients with such a variety of conditions and symptoms. If you’d like to develop your knowledge of many different conditions and the impact this has on patients and their families a role in palliative care with Sue Ryder is for you.

Our nurses play an indispensable role in providing compassionate, holistic care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. Their work extends far beyond medical tasks, encompassing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support for both patients and their families.

Our bank registered nurses work early shifts, late shifts, long days, nights, and weekends. As this role supports a 24/7 service, we are seeking candidates with flexibility to work a range of shifts as required. The successful applicants will play an active role within our multidisciplinary team. You will work alongside specialty doctors, therapy staff, volunteers and other vital members of the MDT taking a holistic approach in providing the best possible outcomes for each patient.

• Providing support, leadership, recognition and supervision to junior members of staff
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualized clinical care for service users
• Using evidence-based practice to develop and maintain high-quality care
• Ensuring that the team provide all care in line with the care plan.
• Helping to organise the admission and discharge of service users

Sue Ryder prides itself on giving our patients the best possible quality of life by providing a holistic and individualised service. Our ideal candidate will have experience of working in palliative and end of life care. This experience may come from a hospice or alternatively, for example, from a high dependency unit or oncology service. They will be have a genuine desire to improve the lives of those living with a life limiting condition.

Our empathetic, skilled and motivated nurses are the true foundation of what Sue Ryder does.

• NMC registration and experience delivering inclusive patient care
• Ability to assess, plan, and deliver care with appropriate adjustments
• Skilled in accessible documentation and patient communication
• Commitment to upholding patients’ dignity, rights, and autonomy

We will provide a thorough induction with supernumerary time to settle into the role and full training and competency assessment will be provided. There is plenty of scope to further develop your own skills in specialist palliative care, and planned career progression through our education programme and development framework is encouraged.

• Enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• Company pension scheme
• Continuation of NHS pension (terms and conditions apply)
• 27 days holiday – rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
• NHS annual leave honoured (terms and conditions apply)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Healthcare Cash plan, to claim back costs of routine healthcare
• Death in Service benefit
• Staff discount of 10% on new goods online ryder.org
• Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities.

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