Registered Nurse Hospice at Home

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To be a safe practitioner and work within the NMC Code of professional standards of practice and behaviour.

Provide holistic assessment of patients and families care needs, plan interventions required and ensure those interventions are actioned and their effectiveness evaluated.

To report directly to HH Nurse Team Lead.

To communicate effectively with patients and families, ensuring they are actively involved with their own care planning.

To support patients and families through grief and loss and the life changing consequences of a palliative diagnosis.

To liaise with appropriate members of the multi-professional team internal and external to the organisation in order to ensure co-ordination and continuity of care on discharge and a smooth transition between different care settings.

To maintain clear, accurate and legible patient documentation.

To work across 08.00 20.00 service hours, including weekends, and bank holidays as required.

Education

To supervise and support junior colleagues, volunteers and students working within the Hospice

To actively participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings and ensure that accurate information is fed back to the appropriate members of the multidisciplinary teams.

To take responsibility for own ongoing education and professional development plan.

To support and participate in the education and development of colleagues.

To be involved in the training programme of professional visitors learners where appropriate.

To mentor new staff members and students.

Management

To act as a role model for all colleagues, providing encouragement and motivation to achieve goals for the service.

To take charge of coordination for HH caseload, maintaining high standards of care escalating issues as required.

To take responsibility for the care plan of Hospice at Home patients during shift.

To Risk assess and maintain a safe environment for Hospice at Home staff while on shift in community.

To be aware of cost implications and make effective use of resources.

To apply evidence based practice in their own nursing care and to encourage colleagues to do the same.

To work within other clinical areas within the Hospice as required.

To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and ensure that accurate information is shared with community team.

Quality

To actively participate in, quality improvement, clinical audit, and research as a means of monitoring and improving standards of care.

To take responsibility for the role as a link nurse within the Hospice at Home Team e.g. tissue viability, infection control etc.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to assess complex needs of patients and plan,
• implement and evaluate appropriate nursing interventions
• Ability to lead team by acting as nurse in charge of
• coordination of shift
• Ability to cope effectively with the demands of working in
• specialist palliative care
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Good time management skills
• Ability to motivate nursing and Health Care assistants and
• take initiative when appropriate

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to equality valuing diversity and understanding of
• how this applies to own area of work
• A positive, can-do attitude to work
• Commitment to the aims and charitable objectives of St Clare
• Hospice
• Commitment to uphold the Values of St Clare Hospice

Knowledge, Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• First level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of personal professional development
• Awareness and understanding of the needs of patients receiving palliative and end of life care

Desirable

• Experience of working in a palliative care environment.
• Qualification in specialist palliative care
• Experience of teaching/presenting

Other requirements

Essential

• Ability to work shift patterns including night shifts and
• weekends as internal rotation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).