Palliative Care Registered Nurse

Salary £35,779 per annum

Make a difference every day. At St Catherine's Hospice, we provide specialist, compassionate palliative and end-of-life care for adults and their families. We're looking for caring, committed registered nurses who want to deliver excellent, person-centred care in a supportive, multidisciplinary environment, living our values of care, compassion and being committed.

As a Palliative Care Registered Nurse, You Will

• Deliver safe, holistic, evidence-based nursing care for patients with palliative needs, working closely with our wider MDT (medical, community teams, pharmacy, AHPs, family support, and volunteers).
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans focused on comfort, dignity and patient/family goals.
• Administer and monitor medicines in line with hospice policies and NMC standards, escalating changes in condition appropriately.
• Communicate sensitively with patients and those important to them, promoting shared decision-making and advance care planning.
• Maintain accurate, timely documentation on our electronic patient record system and contribute to quality improvement, incident reporting and learning.
• Support safe discharge planning and smooth transitions of care across services.

Contract & pattern:
The role requires flexibility across day and night shifts and across clinical services. We are currently consulting with colleagues on future shift lengths and ways of working, so some aspects of the working arrangements may be refined as this develops.

You’ll be a nurse who thrives on teamwork, professionalism and compassionate care, and who is motivated to keep learning and improving.

You will need to be a registered nurse with current NMC registration and a commitment to delivering high-quality palliative and end-of-life care.

This is a rewarding opportunity to develop specialist palliative care skills while making a meaningful difference to patients and families at an important time in their lives.

• A warm, values-driven culture with supportive clinical leadership and access to specialist palliative care education and regular clinical supervision.
• NHS-pension transfer eligibility (if applicable) or hospice pension.
• Free parking on site
• Well-being support that includes access to free confidential counselling.
• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) pro rata for part time. All staff receive an additional wellbeing day on their birthday or nearest working day. Access to a buy additional leave scheme.
• Life assurance scheme
• Opportunity to join the blue light scheme and cycle to work scheme.

Pre-employment:
All offers are subject to satisfactory references, right-to-work checks and DBS clearance in line with our safer recruitment policy. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the right to work in the UK, as St Catherine's Hospice does not currently hold a sponsor licence. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive sufficient applications.

St Catherine's Hospice is committed to creating an inclusive and supportive working environment. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and will consider any reasonable adjustments needed to support candidates throughout the recruitment process.