Registered Nurse, Community

Job responsibilities

Main Purpose

As a Registered Nurse you will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing clinical care, navigation, coordination and support to hospice patients and their families

Through holistic assessment provide information, advice, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals

To work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it. Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret information, to enable them to determine their own future

To maintain effective communication skills to deliver highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously with staff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means

To work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within the locality/in-patient unit for patients who have palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is coordinated and delivered

To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team ,seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required, in order to make sound decisions around palliative and end of life care

To support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert to work as one team

To support any streamlined locality/IPU processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology including clear outcome measures to produce efficient and highly performing community services

To support the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the good reputation of the Hospice e.g. local trusts, CCG, health and social care partners, businesses and voluntary organisations

To support and guide Health Care Assistants, Healthcare Support Workers and volunteers in their daily practice

Experience

Essential

• Proven post registration experience
• Experience in the delivery of end of life and palliative care or related disciplines

Desirable

• Experience of holistic assessment and complex symptom management
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Experience of working unsupervised - Lone Working

Qualifications

Essential

• Nurse Registration
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Advanced Communications Skills Training

Skills Knowledge Qualities

Essential

• Proven ability of successfully working with people and handling difficult and sometimes complex situations
• Ability to work under pressure, manage own stress and emotional responses and be aware of stress in others
• Ability to use a range of IT systems and software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365 and electronic patient record systems (such as SystmOne), as well as virtual systems e.g. Zoom, MS Teams
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Ability to motivate self and others and to lead by example
• Able to effectively resolve professional and ethical issues
• Ability to prioritise issues and tasks
• Good oral & written communication and interpersonal skills

Attributes

Essential

• Passionate about Hospice Care and enthusiasm for the vision of the organisation
• Team player who can work as part of our One Team ethos
• Good level of emotional intelligence and resilience
• Flexible approach to work, with ability to work out of hours on occasions
• Committed to the development of palliative care skills in others
• Committed to working in partnership with people their relatives and carers other organisations and agencies

Other Requirements

Essential

• Driving licence and access to vehicle
• SatisfactoryDisclosure and Barring Service check

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).