Job summary
The Vacancy
- Hours: 22.5 hours per week, 3 days over 7 days
- Location: Rennie Grove Peace NW Herts Locality
- Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 7: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (Pro-rata)
- Closing date: 30 April 2025 at 12:00 noon
- Interview date: 12 May 2025
The purpose of the role is to provide high quality specialist palliative nursing care, skills, advice and support to patients, carers and those important to the patient.
Main duties of the job
- Actively participate in the development of the organisations planned and unplanned community model of care.
- Offer advice, support, and education to the primary health care team as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- The management of a specialist palliative planned care nursing caseload.
To work from an interdisciplinary approach to care.
- To engage in the full range of activities consistent with the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist.
- Demonstrate specialist skills and expertise in palliative care, the post holder will deliver high standards of personalised 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
- Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of nursing practice in palliative 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.
- Manage a caseload of complex patients promoting the highest possible standards of individualised care, symptom management and bereavement support through a process of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
- Effectively allocate and support team members to implement the care plan, monitoring and evaluating the care provided, delivering practical nursing care when appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of nursing practice in palliative 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.
- Manage a caseload of complex patients promoting the highest possible standards of individualised care, symptom management and bereavement support through a process of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
- Effectively allocate and support team members to implement the care plan, monitoring and evaluating the care provided, delivering practical nursing care when appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered General Nurse.
- Degree level or modules in Palliative Care or another relevant subject.
- Evidence of continuous personal and academic development.
- Proven palliative care experience.
- Nurse prescriber / commitment to successfully achieve this qualification as agreed with line manager.
- Advanced assessment skills training / commitment to attend this qualification.
- Advanced communication skills training.
- Proven experience of managing people / strong clinical leadership.
- Proven experience of effective team working.
- Teaching and presentation skills.
- Advanced assessment skills and specialist symptom control knowledge to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.
- Drive and enthusiasm with a positive approach.
- Ability to work autonomously and as an effective member of the team.
- Caring and empathetic approach.
- 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.
- 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.
- -Compassionate
- -Supportive
- -Collaborative
- -Inclusive
Desirable
- Nurse prescriber / commitment to successful achieve this qualification.
- Advanced assessment skills training.
- Advanced communication skills training.
- 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 General Nurse.
- Degree level or modules in Palliative Care or another relevant subject.
- Evidence of continuous personal and academic development.
- Proven palliative care experience.
- Nurse prescriber / commitment to successfully achieve this qualification as agreed with line manager.
- Advanced assessment skills training / commitment to attend this qualification.
- Advanced communication skills training.
- Proven experience of managing people / strong clinical leadership.
- Proven experience of effective team working.
- Teaching and presentation skills.
- Advanced assessment skills and specialist symptom control knowledge to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.
- Drive and enthusiasm with a positive approach.
- Ability to work autonomously and as an effective member of the team.
- Caring and empathetic approach.
- 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.
- 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.
- -Compassionate
- -Supportive
- -Collaborative
- -Inclusive
Desirable
- Nurse prescriber / commitment to successful achieve this qualification.
- Advanced assessment skills training.
- Advanced communication skills training.
- 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).
