Job summary
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients home environment including, as required, in care homes. Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.
Main duties of the job
Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own homes to provide palliative and end of life care.
To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever-changing needs.
To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the lone worker policy and procedure requirements.
About us
If your application is successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.
For an informal chat about this role contact Ursula Reeves,
Head of Community Services on Ursula.reeves@renniegrovepeace.org
Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
Our commitment to Equality and Diversity
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers / families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare rights and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement needs, using a variety of tools to support the process.
To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs, including ongoing referrals to other services as required.
To be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that are responsive to the individual patients requirements.
To be able to communicate highly sensitive information, ensuring patients and their families / carers are adequately supported.
To be able to demonstrate through electronic and paper documentation and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.
To be responsible in leading on initial holistic assessments and reviews of care when required and discharge planning from service.
To be able to communicate effectively to own team, extended team and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings / home.
To follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to medicine management.
On identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.
To signpost and inform patients and their families / carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.
Attend relevant MDT meetings as appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers / families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare rights and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement needs, using a variety of tools to support the process.
To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans ensuring they are patient centred and support the identified patient needs, including ongoing referrals to other services as required.
To be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care interventions that are responsive to the individual patients requirements.
To be able to communicate highly sensitive information, ensuring patients and their families / carers are adequately supported.
To be able to demonstrate through electronic and paper documentation and verbal communication the care undertaken and patient outcomes.
To be responsible in leading on initial holistic assessments and reviews of care when required and discharge planning from service.
To be able to communicate effectively to own team, extended team and outside agencies, ensuring continuity of care is maintained across the different care settings / home.
To follow all agreed clinical procedures and statutory regulations related to medicine management.
On identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.
To signpost and inform patients and their families / carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.
Attend relevant MDT meetings as appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Registered general Nurse / Paramedic.
- Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
- Significant post registration palliative, oncology, or long-term conditions experience.
- Experience of shift / caseload management.
- Able to build good working relationships.
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- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Good administrative and record keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
- Understanding of current palliative care matters.
Desirable
- Mentorship course or willingness to undertake mentorship responsibility.
- Experience of working within palliative care / long term conditions / in an oncology setting.
- Experience of participating in clinical audit / quality management.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Registered general Nurse / Paramedic.
- Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
- Significant post registration palliative, oncology, or long-term conditions experience.
- Experience of shift / caseload management.
- Able to build good working relationships.
- 4
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Good administrative and record keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
- Understanding of current palliative care matters.
Desirable
- Mentorship course or willingness to undertake mentorship responsibility.
- Experience of working within palliative care / long term conditions / in an oncology setting.
- Experience of participating in clinical audit / quality management.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives
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).
Additional information
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).
