Job summary
Community Overnight Service Lead
- Hours: 22.5 hours per week
- Location: Peace Hospice, Watford
- Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 7 : £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata)
- Closing date: 20 May 2025 at 12 noon
- Interview date: 28 May 2025
Main duties of the job
The role of Community Overnight Service Lead is in place to provide leadership and high quality specialist palliative practitioner care, skills, advice and support to patients, carers and those important to the patient.
- This role will directly manage a team of band 6 nurses, paramedics and HCAs.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritise and reprioritise essential in this role.
- 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.
About us
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care started formally operating in July 2023, through the merger of two successful organisations, Rennie Grove Hospice Care and Peace Hospice Care. We offer exceptional, specialised and highly valued care, serving our local community of people affected by life-limiting illness or bereavement, across Herts and Bucks.
Our merger is bringing together the best of both organisations so that we can:
- Serve our communities with a wider range of services
- Reach more local people
- Strengthen our ability to secure more resources
To enable every local person to receive the care they need, when they need it, wherever they need it.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:
- Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of clinical practice in palliative care.
- Support the Community Services Business, Operations and Performance Manager to develop the overnight service, collaborating with external organisations to improve patient care.
- Act as a role model providing clinical leadership for colleagues.
- Advise and support on patients with complex needs and their families at home, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, in accordance with the organisation mission and values.
- Ensure all written and verbal communication is accurate and legible in accordance with NMC and the hospice policies and guidelines.
- Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested.
- Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to practice participating in approved research projects.
- Identify risk involved in patient care and lone working, escalating concerns where appropriate and implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents.
- 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 be responsible for the co-ordination 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.
- To undertake 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 need, using a variety of tools to support the process.
- To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans.
- At 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:
- Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of clinical practice in palliative care.
- Support the Community Services Business, Operations and Performance Manager to develop the overnight service, collaborating with external organisations to improve patient care.
- Act as a role model providing clinical leadership for colleagues.
- Advise and support on patients with complex needs and their families at home, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, in accordance with the organisation mission and values.
- Ensure all written and verbal communication is accurate and legible in accordance with NMC and the hospice policies and guidelines.
- Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested.
- Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to practice participating in approved research projects.
- Identify risk involved in patient care and lone working, escalating concerns where appropriate and implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents.
- 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 be responsible for the co-ordination 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.
- To undertake 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 need, using a variety of tools to support the process.
- To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans.
- At 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registered Nurse or Registered Paramedic
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Degree Level or modules in Palliative Care or another relevant subject
- Evidence of continuous personal and academic development
- Proven palliative care experience
- Advanced communication skills training
- Proven experience of managing people / strong clinical leadership.
- Proven experience of effective team working
- IT literate including a good knowledge of Excel, Word, a clinical IT system.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Advanced assessment skills and specialist symptom control knowledge to plan, implement
Desirable
- Experience of teaching within a clinical setting
- Experience of successfully implementing and supporting change
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registered Nurse or Registered Paramedic
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Degree Level or modules in Palliative Care or another relevant subject
- Evidence of continuous personal and academic development
- Proven palliative care experience
- Advanced communication skills training
- Proven experience of managing people / strong clinical leadership.
- Proven experience of effective team working
- IT literate including a good knowledge of Excel, Word, a clinical IT system.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Advanced assessment skills and specialist symptom control knowledge to plan, implement
Desirable
- Experience of teaching within a clinical setting
- Experience of successfully implementing and supporting change
- 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).
