Staff Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you keen to provide people with personalised care and support? Are you good at offering comforting words? Are you courageous enough to stand alongside local people and their families as they face the end of life? If youre answering yes, then St Catherines Hospice would love to hear from you.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Ability to plan, implement and evaluate care
• Good communication skills, both oral and written
• Drug calculation skills and awareness of the NMC Standards of Medicines Management
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Organisation skills: to organise self and workload
• IT skills and a willingness to undertake supportive training to use SystmOne - a computerised notes documentation system essential to the role
• Up to date evidence of minimum level competency in: Communication, Clinical practice
• Ability to direct /supervise nursing assistants, students and volunteers.
• Ability to mentor junior team members/ teaching skills
• Ability to motivate others
• Ability to operate in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Ability to demonstrate awareness of national developments related to practice

Desirable

• Some post qualification experience (at least 3 months), general nursing experience
• Previous palliative care experience
• Community experience
• Previous acute medical ward experience
• Experience of working in settings other than hospital
• Oncology experience / knowledge
• Previous acute medical ward experience
• A knowledge of hospice and national initiatives relating to palliative care
• Evidence of minimum level competency in: Leadership Education and Training, Grief, Loss and Bereavement, Quality, Management
• IV skills
• Sound knowledge of hospice and palliative care approach and philosophy
• Ability to demonstrate awareness of Hospice developments related to practice
• Willingness to undertake further study
• related to role.

Qualifications

Essential

• A good standard of Education, Minimum GCSE English & Maths or equivalent
• Registered Nurse qualification

Desirable

• Evidence of professional development in the speciality of palliative care
• Diploma in Palliative Care/Oncology/Community or working towards
• Mentorship qualification
• Independent Prescriber

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).

Employer details

Employer name

St Catherine’s Hospice

Address

St. Catherines Hospice

Grace Holland Avenue

Pease Pottage

Crawley

West Sussex

RH119SL

Employer's website

https://www.stch.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)