Job summary
Hospice at Home Senior Paramedic/Nurse
- Hours: 37.5 per week (part time hours considered)
- Location: Rennie Grove Peace Geographical Area - SW Hertfordshire (Watford and Hertsmere)
- Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 6: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata)
- Closing date: 14 August 2025 at 12 noon
- Interview date: 25 August 2025
This role will suit someone who
Is flexible and enjoys the variety of work in a fast-moving environment
Has good interpersonal skills
Has strong organisational skills
Main duties of the job
The role of Hospice at Home Senior Paramedic/Nurse is in place to provide high quality specialist palliative nursing care, skills, advice and support to patients, carers and those important to the patient. This role will support the delivery of planned and unplanned care across Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.
You will work across shifts covering 7am-9.30pm. 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.
About us
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to
patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness.
We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients
transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years.) Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of
patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces.
We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that is at home, in a
care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well
Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.
Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based
in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK
hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in
Buckinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:
- Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
- Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home 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 Care 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:
- Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
- Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home 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 Care 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered general Nurse/Paramedic.
- Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
- Non-medical prescribing Qualification of willingness to complete.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Experience of shift/caseload management.
- Able to build good working relationships.
- 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.
- Be a perfect match with our values.
- Understanding of current palliative care matters.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- IT literate and experience of using an electronic patient record system.
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations.
- Good organisation and negotiation skills
- Ability to motivate self and others.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Ability to support change and influence.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
- Exemplar written skills.
- Willingness to undertake a nominated extended role (champion/mentor)
- Diplomatic but objective.
- Calm and approachable manner.
- Flexible attitude to working.
- Personally and professionally mature and recognise own limitations.
- Willingness to work in other areas of patient services.
- A commitment to the visions, values and objectives of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.
- Understanding and commitment to organisations equal opportunities policy.
- Be a perfect match with our values:
- We are caring and compassionate,
- We engage and empower,
- We strive for excellence,
- We develop and innovate,
- We respect and value
Desirable
- 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered general Nurse/Paramedic.
- Relevant postgraduate qualification relating to speciality or evidence of transferable experience.
- Non-medical prescribing Qualification of willingness to complete.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Experience of shift/caseload management.
- Able to build good working relationships.
- 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.
- Be a perfect match with our values.
- Understanding of current palliative care matters.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- IT literate and experience of using an electronic patient record system.
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations.
- Good organisation and negotiation skills
- Ability to motivate self and others.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Ability to support change and influence.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
- Exemplar written skills.
- Willingness to undertake a nominated extended role (champion/mentor)
- Diplomatic but objective.
- Calm and approachable manner.
- Flexible attitude to working.
- Personally and professionally mature and recognise own limitations.
- Willingness to work in other areas of patient services.
- A commitment to the visions, values and objectives of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice.
- Understanding and commitment to organisations equal opportunities policy.
- Be a perfect match with our values:
- We are caring and compassionate,
- We engage and empower,
- We strive for excellence,
- We develop and innovate,
- We respect and value
Desirable
- 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).
