BANK Registered Nurse InpatientsNHS

Job summary

To work with the Beaumond House team to maintain the standard of excellence to ensure that the philosophy and values of Beaumond House Hospice Care are met.

Main duties of the job

A major part of this role is being responsible for planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating person-centred, evidence-based palliative care to patients, their families and carers. The RN will ensure the smooth running of the in-patient service, work with the multi-disciplinary team and other professionals and agencies and contribute to the development of the staff and the service.

Job description

Job title: BANK Registered Nurse Inpatients

Reports to: Director of Care & Quality Salary: £19.10

Hours: Zero hours. Worked flexibly to provide cover Monday to Sunday Location: Beaumond House Hospice, Newark

Beaumond House

Beaumond House Hospice Care delivers personalised, high-quality end of life care across hospice, home, and community settings. Patients and families remain at the centre of everything we do. All staff are expected to uphold dignity, safety, confidentiality, and the highest standards of physical, psychological, and spiritual care.

Role Purpose

To work with the Beaumond House team to maintain the standard of excellence to ensure that the philosophy and values of Beaumond House Hospice Care are met.

A major part of this role is being responsible for planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating person-centred, evidence-based palliative care to patients, their families and carers. The RN will ensure the smooth running of the in-patient service, work with the multi-disciplinary team and other professionals and agencies and contribute to the development of the staff and the service.

Main Duties

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care applying a holistic personalised approach and continually review and update care plans and documentation.
• To ensure that the dignity, safety, and confidentiality of all patients are respected at all times and that all patients receive the highest possible standard of physical, psychological, and spiritual care.
• To ensure documentation is accurate legible and appropriate and complies with NMC and CQC requirements and participate in audits to ensure standards of documentation are maintained. To comply with safe use, storage, and destruction of medication. To personally develop, deliver and maintain competence in clinical nursing skills including symptom control and end of life care for patients with cancer or other life-limiting conditions.
• To take responsibility for your own personal development and maintain professional registration with the NMC. To demonstrate and record reflective practice, seek out clinical supervision, review learning needs with Director of Care & Quality (DoCQ) or Clinical Nurse Lead & Educator (CNLE) at individual review/appraisal and attend training as arranged. To build resilience and support networks for reflecting on practice, striving to improve personal performance and emotional wellbeing.
• To communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, carers, staff and wider health care team and other agencies, often about difficult and sensitive topics and ensure confidentiality is maintained in all channels of communication and in line with the confidentiality policy.
• To contribute to current improvement initiatives in end-of-life care planning involving patients, relatives, carers, other health care team members.
• To provide bereavement support for carers and identify and refer people who require higher level support.
• To ensure appropriate and timely communication and referrals are made to other members of the multi-disciplinary team and other professionals and agencies.
• To liaise and work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure good working relationships are built and maintained, attending, and feeding back from external meetings, e.g. GSF, MDT.
• To lead a team of Health Care Assistants and Volunteers in providing patient-centred evidence-based palliative care to patients with life-limiting conditions who are receiving care and support from Beaumond House Hospice Care.
• To delegate nursing duties appropriately to care staff and contribute to their training and supervision in line with the NMC requirements and Beaumond House policies and procedures.
• To act as role model, supervisor/mentor to Health Care Assistants and other care staff members, participating in recruitment and selection, promoting an environment of continual learning, contributing to training programmes and assisting in induction and on-going development.
• To monitor levels of staffing in relation to patient dependency and ensure staffing and skill mix enables safe delivery of the care service, liaising with DoCQ/CNLE when necessary.
• To provide advice and support for patients and carers over the 24-hour period.

General Duties

• Work collaboratively and cooperatively with your Beaumond House colleagues
• Respect confidentiality applying to all areas of Beaumond House
• Abide by the Health and Safety at Work Act
• Work within Beaumond House policies and procedures
• Participate in and contribute to team meetings
• Always behave in a professional manner, reflecting and maintaining Beaumond House values

Skills, Experience and Attributes Required

• NMC Level 1 Registered Nurse.
• Experience in palliative care, end of life care, or relevan transferable experience.
• Strong interpersonal and telephone communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and respect for all other individuals.
• Excellent listening skills and ability to build rapport with a sensitive approach.
• Confidence in basic IT and electronic records, or willingness to develop competence.
• Flexibility, excellent listening skills and an ability to build a rapport with others and a friendly and sensitive approach.

What we ask of you

• Practice aligns with the vision and values of Beaumond House.
• A positive, proactive, and professional approach is demonstrated.
• Integrity and trust are maintained at all times.
• Emotional resilience and ability to provide compassionate care in end-of-life and after-death situations.

Please note

All roles are subject to receipt of satisfactory references and Disclosure & Barring Service checks.

This Job Description is intended as a guide only and is not an exhaustive list of duties. It is subject to periodic review with the post holder.

Our Vision is to achieve Outstanding Hospice Care, enabling our local communities to live well and die well

Our Values (Guiding Beliefs) are:

PERSON CENTRED, WE GO THE EXTRA MILE - Every life matters and every moment matters - patients and their families and friends are at the centre of everything we do.

VALUE & SUPPORT OUR PEOPLE All of our people are important and highly valued, and we support and develop them to be at their best.

OPENNESS & HONESTY, CREATING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT - We provide a safe environment in which feelings may be openly expressed and acknowledged with sensitivity and honesty.

COLLABORATION - We provide a unique and special range of services, in collaboration with our partners in the End of Life Together Alliance.

EFFICIENCY, CARING, PROFESSIONAL - We provide good stewardship of our resources and operate in a professional, caring, and efficient way.

About us

Beaumond House Hospice Care delivers personalised, high-quality end of life care across hospice, home, and community settings. Patients and families remain at the centre of everything we do. All staff are expected to uphold dignity, safety, confidentiality, and the highest standards of physical, psychological, and spiritual care.