Job summary
St Luke's Hospice is the outstanding and designated ‘Lead
Provider’ of expert palliative and end of life care in South West Essex and a
respected charity at the heart of the local community. Hospice Community Services is a unique flagship service, with
innovative service models supporting patients to remain in their own home. Services span South West Essex and are
connected to partner NHS, health & social care and voluntary care organisations.
We have Nurse and Specialist Nurse opportunities for compassionate,
dedicated, and responsive Nurses who want to learn in a supportive and friendly
team. You will rotate through services to develop and broaden experience and
specialist skills and further career development is available through effective
succession planning and onward training, such as non-medical prescribing.
The Team works across a 7-day week providing a service covering
365 days of the year, utilising the skills and experience of passionate
palliative care specialists.
Many families/carers can’t thank St Luke’s enough for the
support they received as the person they cared for was dying.
“To all the wonderful people at St Lukes.
A small token of our heartfelt gratitude for the love and kindness you all gave
when caring for our mum/wife, and for extending that love and kindness to us at
our darkest hours, words cannot express how very grateful we are, you are all
amazing people.”
Main duties of the job
You’re there to provide holistic care, make someone comfortable,
give them emotional support and provide relief for carers.
You
will have the time to care for patients and families and will truly deliver
person centred tailored care, our team have supported people to plan weddings,
helped with pets, ensured someone was pampered or supported them to watch a
favourite film. Our Nurses value remembering the help they gave in final weeks and
days.
We assess needs and plan, implement, and deliver unique
packages of care, truly tailored to individual need. We use our “one chance to
do it right” well
Services span South West Essex and are connected to partner
NHS, health & social care and voluntary care organisations The Team work
collaboratively on a day-by-day basis with partner organisations and we pride
ourselves on this collaborative approach with the common goal of delivering the
best quality of care for the community we serve.
Working within Hospice Community Services means you are helping
someone to understand what matters to them and live the best possible quality
of life, when that life is at its most precious.
The role will benefit from allocated and funded clinical
supervision and is supported by a thorough induction, support from an
experienced team and wider expertise across our Hospice.
About us
We deliver a range of specialist
services to support patients, their families, and friends. The service models support patients to remain in their own
home and include:
· 24/7 OneResponse advice and support service
· Hospice at Home
· Referrals Assessment and Discharge Service
· Frailty and Care Home Service
· Clinical Nurse Specialist Team
The Hospice services are often of interest of other providers
who look to our models to influence and develop their own models of care.
Our team benefit from:
·
Great
job satisfaction.
·
Time
to care and meet individual needs.
·
A friendly supportive team.
·
Being part of a respected and unique service.
·
Supportive management.
·
Excellent education opportunities
including for example non-medical prescribing.
·
Funded
Clinical Supervision.
·
Variable
shift pattern with flexibly to meet your needs.
·
Located
close to major road networks.
·
NHS
Pension if already a member.
·
28
days’ annual leave, in addition to public holidays.
·
Generous
maternity scheme.
·
Active
Staff Wellbeing programme.
·
High
staff satisfaction and retention rates.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
role offered will depend upon the experience of the candidate. We have
opportunities at 3 levels:
CNS:
CNS’s work as accountable and
autonomous practitioners and lead specialists, providing expertise in
palliative care, and strategic and clinical leadership to influence the
development and delivery of local palliative care services over a 7-day week.
They use specialist skills and knowledge
to manage patients on a caseload and their families/carers with complex needs
associated with living with a life-challenging illness.
Acting as a specialist resource they
influence patient care through the indirect roles of providing specialist
education and training to multi professional staff/students, statutory and
voluntary agencies and undertaking research, audits and service development
within palliative care.
CNS’s link
with Hospice staff primary healthcare teams, secondary care professionals, statutory
and voluntary sectors, and promote fully integrated team working with partners
and providers.
They also influence the continued
development of palliative care services, ensuring that all legislative
requirements and national initiatives such as Gold Standards Framework, Preferred
Priorities of Care and Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care -
2015-2020 are implemented, supported and evaluated.
Senior Nurse:
Our Senior Nurses are part of a team ensuring that the highest
possible standards of holistic specialist palliative care are delivered to
patients and relatives. This will include offering high level responsive
telephone triage, assessment and support, providing rapid response visits,
undertaking holistic assessments and supporting rapid discharge and care
reviews. They support
the whole patient journey by ensuring appropriate and seamless care, in liaison
with all community and Hospice services. They assist in audit and research projects,
particularly within their own service, taking a lead on specified projects as
appropriate. They are also
required to actively contribute to the development and well-being of the whole
team.
RN:
RN’S in Hospice Community Services
participate as members of the clinical nursing team in the maintenance
and development of agreed standards, carrying out all relevant forms of care to
a high level and designated to regularly take charge in the absence of Senior
Nurses.
Post holders are responsible for ensuring skilled and
evidence-based care is delivered to patients, families and carers directly or by wider members of the
Hospice MDT; postholders will be responsible for delivering and managing a
small, short-term patient caseload ensuring that effective and robust clinical
interventions are implemented, utilising educational interventions and role
modelling to allow hospice influenced care.
All
Registered Nurse roles will ultimately be able to rotate through all Hospice
services and the postholder must be flexible and co-operative in this.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
role offered will depend upon the experience of the candidate. We have
opportunities at 3 levels:
CNS:
CNS’s work as accountable and
autonomous practitioners and lead specialists, providing expertise in
palliative care, and strategic and clinical leadership to influence the
development and delivery of local palliative care services over a 7-day week.
They use specialist skills and knowledge
to manage patients on a caseload and their families/carers with complex needs
associated with living with a life-challenging illness.
Acting as a specialist resource they
influence patient care through the indirect roles of providing specialist
education and training to multi professional staff/students, statutory and
voluntary agencies and undertaking research, audits and service development
within palliative care.
CNS’s link
with Hospice staff primary healthcare teams, secondary care professionals, statutory
and voluntary sectors, and promote fully integrated team working with partners
and providers.
They also influence the continued
development of palliative care services, ensuring that all legislative
requirements and national initiatives such as Gold Standards Framework, Preferred
Priorities of Care and Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care -
2015-2020 are implemented, supported and evaluated.
Senior Nurse:
Our Senior Nurses are part of a team ensuring that the highest
possible standards of holistic specialist palliative care are delivered to
patients and relatives. This will include offering high level responsive
telephone triage, assessment and support, providing rapid response visits,
undertaking holistic assessments and supporting rapid discharge and care
reviews. They support
the whole patient journey by ensuring appropriate and seamless care, in liaison
with all community and Hospice services. They assist in audit and research projects,
particularly within their own service, taking a lead on specified projects as
appropriate. They are also
required to actively contribute to the development and well-being of the whole
team.
RN:
RN’S in Hospice Community Services
participate as members of the clinical nursing team in the maintenance
and development of agreed standards, carrying out all relevant forms of care to
a high level and designated to regularly take charge in the absence of Senior
Nurses.
Post holders are responsible for ensuring skilled and
evidence-based care is delivered to patients, families and carers directly or by wider members of the
Hospice MDT; postholders will be responsible for delivering and managing a
small, short-term patient caseload ensuring that effective and robust clinical
interventions are implemented, utilising educational interventions and role
modelling to allow hospice influenced care.
All
Registered Nurse roles will ultimately be able to rotate through all Hospice
services and the postholder must be flexible and co-operative in this.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- All roles are community based and require RN qualification, a passion for high quality care and require car drivers with access to their own vehicle.
- Specific requirements for the roles we offer are:
- CNS:
- Possession of a degree in palliative care (or working towards), a relevant mentorship qualification, the ability to work alone in the community setting, managing complex, challenging and unpredictable situations and problem solving.
- Expert current knowledge of pain and symptom management, which underpins theory, usually gained through recent clinical practice at a senior level is required along with the ability to identify psychological or spiritual distress requiring referral to other specialist services
- Senior Nurse:
- Relevant post qualification education in palliative care is desirable along with Community,
- Cancer/palliative care experience.
- RN:
- Some experience in Palliative Care Nursing and an understanding of Hospice work is preferred though this is not essential
- Experience of Oncology nursing or other long term conditions would also be desirable.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- All roles are community based and require RN qualification, a passion for high quality care and require car drivers with access to their own vehicle.
- Specific requirements for the roles we offer are:
- CNS:
- Possession of a degree in palliative care (or working towards), a relevant mentorship qualification, the ability to work alone in the community setting, managing complex, challenging and unpredictable situations and problem solving.
- Expert current knowledge of pain and symptom management, which underpins theory, usually gained through recent clinical practice at a senior level is required along with the ability to identify psychological or spiritual distress requiring referral to other specialist services
- Senior Nurse:
- Relevant post qualification education in palliative care is desirable along with Community,
- Cancer/palliative care experience.
- RN:
- Some experience in Palliative Care Nursing and an understanding of Hospice work is preferred though this is not essential
- Experience of Oncology nursing or other long term conditions would also be desirable.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
