Hospice Senior Nurse (Community)

St Nicholas Hospice Care is a local charity providing help, advice and support to people in West Suffolk and Thetford in the final chapters of their life, who are living with long-term and life-threatening illnesses. Our services are not just for patients, but for their family and friends too. They include everything from specialist medical care to bereavement support and practical help. St Nicholas Hospice is dedicated to its vision for everyone to matter in life and death.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Community Support Team as a Hospice Senior Nurse.

Do you enjoy caring for patients in their own homes? Do you have a love of palliative care, which you would like to develop further? If you would like to work in an environment where you can begin to manage your own clinical caseload working with our experienced Health Care Assistants, under the direction and support of senior palliative care colleagues, then we’d like to meet you!

Hours: 37 per week.

As part of the clinical team working under the direction of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Hospice Senior Nurses support patients and their families, who may have physical, psychological or spiritual needs, related to a palliative diagnosis. Hospice Senior Nurses are registered nurses with increasing knowledge and skills in palliative care and related areas. Working as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team, you will provide support and advice regarding symptom management and control and provide information and support to enable care planning, usually in a community setting.

As an employee of St Nicholas Hospice Care you would receive the following benefits:

• Free onsite parking
• 25 days paid annual leave increasing to 29 with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Continuation of your NHS pension or access to a group pension scheme
• Provision of home-made meals available for staff in our onsite bistro
• Life assurance
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme with a range of discounts
• Health Cash Plan & Wellbeing programme (dentistry, optical, emotional wellbeing support)
• Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay
• Opportunities to attend staff social events arranged by our social committee (such as photography group, quiz nights and organisational picnics to name a few)
• Supportive line management, including regular 1:1s, annual appraisal and 6-weekly team meetings plus team away days

Please view the full job description: Hospice Senior Nurse Community Job Description

For an informal discussion or to find out more about this opportunity, please contact Pippa Wilding, Head of Nursing & Quality, by e-mail or by calling 01284 766133.

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Closing date: 30 September 2024

Interview date: 16 October 2024

Location, St Nicholas Hospice Care, Hardwick Lane, Bury Saint Edmunds, UKContract details, Permanent, 37 hours per week, £35,789 to £37,601 per annum