Senior Staff Nurse; Hospice at Home Service

Senior Staff Nurse (Hospice at Home Service)

Help us make a difference to people with life-limiting illnesses...

Our Myton at Home Service provides palliative and end of life care in the community. An exciting opportunity has arisen to for a confident, motivated, experienced Nurse within Myton at Home.

We offer a wide range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing with long service
• Additional leave purchasing
• Free parking at our hospice sites
• Winter savings club
• Dedicated staff wellbeing team & mental health first aiders
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free on-site flu jabs
• Free feminine hygiene products
• 24/7 GP access
• Free eye tests
• #Doing Our Bit  online fitness and wellbeing platform

You will be:

• Carrying out holistic care assessments for patients, families and carers;
• Monitoring and assessing symptoms;
• Facilitating effective symptom relief;
• Providing clinical leadership and coordination within the Service;
• Collaborating with other teams and external organisations, as a role model and specialist practitioner with advisory as well as clinical input, to ensure patients, families and carers receive safe, high-quality care.

About you

We would love to hear from Registered Nurses with:

• The right to work in the UK (we cannot provide sponsorship)
• Current, active NMC registration
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent Nursing qualifications
• Post-registration experience of palliative & end of life care
• UK driving licence & a vehicle you can use for work

This role requires an enhanced DBS check including the adults' and children's barred lists. We will carry out this check and cover the cost.

At The Myton Hospices, we provide specialist care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses, and their loved ones, from the point of diagnosis to end of life. We are a much-loved and well supported charity, at the heart of our community. We have three hospices, a range of community services, and 26 charity shops in Coventry and Warwickshire.

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and a transparent interview process. However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and from ethnic minorities, who are currently under-represented in ourices If there are any adjustments that could improve your experience, we encourage you to share this with us.

If you have identified a way we can improve, please let us know.

If you would prefer a paper application form, or if you have any questions including about support or adjustments, please contact HR on  / recruitment or by post: HR, Warwick Myton Hospice, Myton Lane, Warwick, CV34 6PX
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We share interview questions in advance, to reduce nerves and enable you to truly show your abilities. You are welcome to bring notes to your interview, if you would find this helpful.

Role Purpose

Reporting to the Deputy Manager of the Myton at Home Service, the post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised holistic care.

To contribute to the clinical day-to-day coordination, leadership and management of the Myton at Home service. This is a patient-focused, clinically-based role which manages and processes referrals, liaises closely with and communicates effectively with referrers. The care and support provided is for people in the last weeks and days of life, who wish to remain at home.

It includes individual holistic patient assessments including symptom management, advice, referring patients for Inpatient beds where appropriate, supporting discharges from the hospice and hospitals, and advance care planning. The role is to facilitate and maintain the philosophy of the hospice and a palliative care approach. To ensure that the Myton values are upheld at all times. The post-holder will at all times practise with care, compassion, competence, good communication, courage and commitment.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as a role model and specialist practitioner, having both an advisory and clinical input and focus into patient care.
• Undertakeholistic palliative care assessments and identifying a management plan coveringall identified needs of the patient and their families in conjunction with the community key worker (Clinical Nurse Specialist, GP, District Nurses).
• Providephysical, psychological, social and spiritual care for patients and carers.
• Monitor and assess symptoms and facilitate effective symptom relief by a) reporting promptly to the community key worker and b) administering symptom relief medication as per prescription, policy and in line with community guidance and Myton policies and procedures.
• Work collaboratively,promote and maintain effective relationships with multi-professional teams andother care providers; have a proactive approach in supporting discharges where appropriate, in liaison with the Discharge Coordinator / hospital dischargeteam.
• Actas a positive role model to…