Job summary
Inpatient Unit Staff Nurse
- Hours:Full time - 13 x 11.5 hours across a 4 week rota (part-time hours considered)
- Location: Peace Hospice, Watford
- Salary:Rennie Grove Peace Band 5: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)
- Closing date:13 October 2025 at 12 noon
Main duties of the job
- Deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life nursing care as part of the In- Patient Unit multidisciplinary team.
- Leading on and coordinating assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care.
- Ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
- Maintaining a respectful non-judgemental and caring attitude ensuring the Rennie Grove Peace Hospice vision and philosophy of care is integral to the care delivered and role undertaken.
- The coordination and smooth running of a shift ensuring it is well organised and staff and patients are safe.
- Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
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 thats 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
- What youll do in the role
- Attend relevant meetings as appropriate.
- Managed through others: Responsible for all
nursing staff and volunteers when nominated the nurse in charge of unit or shift.
Supervision of Staff Nurses, Health Care Assistants and Volunteers on shift.
- To
undertake a holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and
their carers/families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare right
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.
- To
be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care
interventions that is responsive to the individual patients requirements.
- To
be able to communicate highly sensitive and often contentious information,
ensuring patients and their families/carers are adequately supported.
- To
be able to demonstrate through documentation, and verbal communication the care
undertaken and patient outcomes.
- To
participate in keeping accurate and legible records in accordance with existing
practice and procedure at the Peace Hospice. To be aware of the legal
requirements associated with keeping such records.
- To
be an active member of the MDT contributing to the presentation, decision
making of the patients care planning.
- To
be an exemplary role model to all peer colleagues, new staff, volunteers and
visitors to the service.
- To
provide a verbal or written report and disseminate to colleagues and other team
members any learning, knowledge gained from attending study/ training days.
- To
attend and contribute to the regular clinical learning/education programme.
-
Understand and comply with all Rennie Grove
Peace policies and procedures.
-
Maintain required organisational standards for
all mandatory training.
Keep up to date with current legislation and any
further professional training, relevant to role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- What youll do in the role
- Attend relevant meetings as appropriate.
- Managed through others: Responsible for all
nursing staff and volunteers when nominated the nurse in charge of unit or shift.
Supervision of Staff Nurses, Health Care Assistants and Volunteers on shift.
- To
undertake a holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and
their carers/families physical, emotional, spiritual, practical, welfare right
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.
- To
be able to deliver both generalist basic and complex specialist nursing care
interventions that is responsive to the individual patients requirements.
- To
be able to communicate highly sensitive and often contentious information,
ensuring patients and their families/carers are adequately supported.
- To
be able to demonstrate through documentation, and verbal communication the care
undertaken and patient outcomes.
- To
participate in keeping accurate and legible records in accordance with existing
practice and procedure at the Peace Hospice. To be aware of the legal
requirements associated with keeping such records.
- To
be an active member of the MDT contributing to the presentation, decision
making of the patients care planning.
- To
be an exemplary role model to all peer colleagues, new staff, volunteers and
visitors to the service.
- To
provide a verbal or written report and disseminate to colleagues and other team
members any learning, knowledge gained from attending study/ training days.
- To
attend and contribute to the regular clinical learning/education programme.
-
Understand and comply with all Rennie Grove
Peace policies and procedures.
-
Maintain required organisational standards for
all mandatory training.
Keep up to date with current legislation and any
further professional training, relevant to role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Willingness to complete Rennie Grove Hospice Care educational programme.
- Experience of being part of a multi professional team.
- Experience of shift /caseload management.
- A good understanding of technology with a working knowledge of Microsoft office packages ie Word, Excel and Outlook.
- 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..
- Flexible attitude to working
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of working within palliative care/long term conditions or an oncology setting.
- Experience of participating in a clinical development audit.
- Ability to support change and influence.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteer.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Willingness to complete Rennie Grove Hospice Care educational programme.
- Experience of being part of a multi professional team.
- Experience of shift /caseload management.
- A good understanding of technology with a working knowledge of Microsoft office packages ie Word, Excel and Outlook.
- 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..
- Flexible attitude to working
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of working within palliative care/long term conditions or an oncology setting.
- Experience of participating in a clinical development audit.
- Ability to support change and influence.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteer.
- 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).
