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Job details
Posting date: 27 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Negotiable
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 20 October 2024
Location: London, NW8 9NH
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: B0263-24-0207

Job summary

We are looking for a new Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our Charity funded Inpatient Hospice. The Hospice consists of an 18 bedded in patient unit, a Day Centre and a community team maintaining highest standards of palliative care with in multidisciplinary environment. Services are provided for people with cancer, HIV and other life threatening illnesses and for their significant others.

 

 

Main duties of the job

Patient are admitted to the Hospice Specialist Palliative care In-Patient Unit for assessment, symptom control, terminal care, rehabilitation, respite care and medical interventions from a wide catchment area of the following CCGs primary care trusts of Westminster, Brent, Camden, Islington.

This role would ideally suit an experienced Palliative Care Nurse from either a Hospice or Hospital Background. You will have previously mentored staff and trained junior members of the team.

 

 

About us

Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.

At our organisation we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our employees a wide range of benefits;

When you become part of the HJE Family, these are some of the benefits you will receive:

  • Private healthcare scheme worth up to £20,000 per year
  • 27 days annual leave
  • Blue Light Card discounts
  • Interest-free season ticket loans
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Free eye check-up vouchers with contribution towards lenses
  • Free newspaper and media subscriptions
  • Local Business discounts
  • Discount in our Hospice Charity shop
  • Refer a Friend scheme
  • Free Cinema Society Membership offering discounted tickets
  • Personal development and training courses
  • Annual events and recognition awards
  • Career progression and increments
  • For employees joining us from the NHS, we can provide continuation of your NHS pension

 

 

Job description

Job responsibilities

To maintain continuous high standards of skilled nursing care and professional practice through evidence based practice To promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence based practice To act as a role model and expert clinical practitioner. To supervise and teach both trained staff, health care assistants and student nurses To assist the Ward Manager in all aspects of leadership and management of the hospice in-patient unit To assist in the coordination of services provided by the inpatient unit, and to contribute to the day to day running of the service. To assist, where necessary, in the provision of other services provided by the hospice

 

 

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Experience at Band 5 or above in specialist palliative care or oncology
  • Demonstrable practice that is evidence based and up to date
  • Experience of identifying and dealing with risks encountered within own practice

Desirable

  • Experience of supporting junior / less experienced staff
  • Able to use assertive communication skills
  • Able to conduct audits in objective and efficient manner

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

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth

Address

60 Grove End Road

St John’s Wood

London

To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.