Are you an enthusiasticRegistered Nurse who wants to give the best possible care? Have youthought about a career in Specialist Palliative Care at St ElizabethHospice?
StElizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves lifefor people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with aprogressive or life-limiting illness. Ourmost recent Care Quality Commission report rated the hospice as Outstanding.
Establishedin 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care topatients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they easepain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year the charity supportedover 4,000 patients and their families.
Thehospices work is centred on the individual's needs and they provide specialistsupport wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting inthe community, in hospital or in the hospice itself. Support is provided topatients and their families via the In-Patient Unit, the Community Care Unitincluding outpatients clinics, home visits from the Community Nursing, Medicaland Therapy Teams, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse tojoin the Planned Service within our Community Nursing Team on a permanentbasis. You will work with the ClinicalNurse Specialist to manage a caseload of patients within the allocatedIntegrated Neighbourhood Team (INT). Youwill provide specialistpalliative nursing care to patients and their families, ensuring their needsare holistically assessed, their care is planned to meet their needs andevaluated.
Tothrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate experience in palliative careand of working within a multi-disciplinary team. This is a chance to make a realdifference to peoples lives.
Please note that we haveaflexible workforce policy which means that employees will be deployed in otherareas when there is the need to do so. This benefits service users andemployees.
Hours:7.5hour shifts Monday to Friday 08:30 to 16:30.
Interview Date:4 February 2026
If you would like anopportunity to find out more about working at the hospice and how it can fityour own career aspirations, we recommend an informal visit/discussion prior toyou completing your application.
About us
St ElizabethHospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young peoplethat we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect anddiscrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigoroussafer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records andvetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place whichpromote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertakeregular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge andskills to identify and respond to potential risks.
The hospice offers a generous benefitpackage, including:
27days annual leave entitlement
LifeCover
Cycleto Work Scheme
CarLeasing Scheme
HealthService Discounts
OccupationalSick Pay
BlueLight Card
EmployeeAssistance Programme
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARYTo work with the Clinical Nurse Specialist to manage a caseload of patients within theallocated Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT).Provide specialist palliative nursing care to patients and their families, ensuring their needsare holistically assessed, their care is planned to meet their needs and evaluated.
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
* Demonstrate a commitment to keeping adults and young people safe.
* Report any disclosure made to you to the appropriate person.
* Report any safeguarding concerns in the workplace to the appropriate person.
* Maintain an awareness of the Hospices policies in relation to safeguarding.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
* To undertake in-depth holistic assessments of patients with palliative care needs,regardless of their diagnosis and plan care to meet patient outcomes. This includes thetriaging of referrals ensuring all triages are completed in line with the agreed standardoperating procedure.
* To provide information, advice, psychological and spiritual care to patients, their familiesand carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate healthcare professionalsin the Hospice, Hospital and community.
* Manage a caseload of patients, under the caseload supervision of the Clinical NurseSpecialist, offering continuity of care to patients and families. Whilst allocated to an INT,work flexibly to ensure planned care work is covered across the entire area.
* Carry out visits to patients and families at their home or within the community care unit.
* Attend and participate in the Interdisciplinary team meetings, presenting patients asneeded.
* Provide support to patients on the Virtual Ward ensuring their specialist palliative careneeds are met.
* Use advanced communication skills in delivering highly emotive information clearly,sensitively and unambiguously with staff, patients, families and professionals by face toface, telephone and/or electronic means.
* Provide skilled and expert palliative nursing interventions, working closely with medicaland other colleagues to ensure a coordinated and effective service across boundaries ofinpatient, community and outpatients and across professionals, carrying out reactive visitswhere this supports coordination or continuity of care.
* Maintain and develop working relationships with community and hospital colleaguesensuring effective communication so enhancing patient care.
* Involve patients, families, and carers in co-production of and making informed decisionsregarding strategies to manage their own health and wellbeing .
* Identify own personal development needs, proactively seek feedback, and take effectiveaction to address them using a mix of strategies.
* Share knowledge, experience and expertise with nurses and others at all levels, throughstrategies such as formal and informal teaching, facilitated reflective practice, skillssupervision, case load supervision, coaching, mentoring and preceptorship.
* To update own specialist skills and knowledge in palliative care, through continuousprofessional development.
* Promote a safeguarding is everyones business culture, and where necessary act as asafeguarding deputy.
* Ensure adherence with relevant Infection Prevention and Control policies and procedures,raising any risks to the IPC group / Service Lead.
Person Specification
Specific Skills
* Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate appropriate care for palliative care patients and their families.
* Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to deal with complex matters.
* Ability to supervise the work of others including registered and unregistered staff as well as volunteers.
Experience
* Related post qualification experience at Band 5.
* Palliative care, or long-term condition experience.
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
* Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate appropriate care for
* palliative care patients and their families.
* Ability to assess patient needs that may be complex and
* subject to change.
* Good understanding of the key components of clinical governance.
* Ability to contribute to service development.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
* Palliative care qualification at level 6/7 or willingness to undertake.
* Advanced communication course.
Personal Qualities
* Demonstrable experience of team working and leadership and potential to develop.
* Be willing and able to develop own knowledge and skills and to contribute to the development of others.
* Ability to withstand sensitive and potentially stressful situations.
* Be adaptable, flexible, responsive & positive to change and service development.
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.
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