Senior Registered Nurse Inpatient UnitNHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse ready to take the next step in your career?

Join our Inpatient Unit as a Senior Registered Nurse, where our low nurse-to-patient ratio gives you the time to provide the quality of care patients and families truly deserve.

You will combine hands-on specialist palliative and end-of-life care with the opportunity to develop your clinical leadership skills in a supportive and experienced team.

Previous hospice experience is not essential. We will support you with specialist training and ongoing professional development.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Registered Nurse, you will lead shifts and coordinate care, using your clinical judgement and autonomy to respond to patients changing needs.

You will provide skilled, compassionate nursing care, support patients and those closest to them, and work closely with our multidisciplinary team.

You will also support the development of Registered Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and students through supervision, one-to-ones and mentoring, giving you valuable leadership experience while remaining closely involved in clinical care.

Our people are at the heart of what we do. In our latest staff survey, 100% of colleagues said they would be happy for a friend or relative to receive care here, while 98% said their work has meaning and purpose.

We offer 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension options, well being support, an Employee Assistance Programme, discounts including Blue Light Card and free on-site parking.

We are proud to be a values-led, inclusive organisation where people are supported to learn, develop and thrive.

Job description

Our Inpatient Unit in Wroughton provides specialist care for people with a range of life-limiting illnesses. Patients may come to us for complex symptom management, such as pain or breathlessness, emotional and family support, or care at the end of life.

As a Senior Registered Nurse, you will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised nursing care, considering each patients physical, emotional, spiritual, social and practical needs. You will build trusting relationships with patients and those closest to them, providing emotional and psychological support alongside excellent clinical care.

You will take responsibility for the running of shifts, working with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, evidence-led care.

Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will contribute to service development, education, quality improvement, audit and clinical governance. You will act as a positive nursing role model and help new and junior colleagues develop their end-of-life nursing skills.

You will participate in the Senior Nurse on-call rota, providing support to nursing colleagues out of hours within the agreed scope of authority. There will also be a requirement to work shifts within the community and flexibly across both teams when needed.

The role is 36 hours per week over seven days, working both days and nights. Part-time hours will be considered.

Salary will be dependent on palliative care experience. Prospect Hospice is not part of NHS Agenda for Change.

Please refer to the attached job description for comprehensive information regarding the responsibilities, qualifications, and expectations associated with the position.

About us

Prospect Hospice is an independent hospice supporting a community of 300,000 people in Swindon, Marlborough and North Wiltshire, and the villages of Lechlade and Fairford in Gloucestershire. It is the only dedicated provider of specialist end of life care services within its locality. The Hospices multi-professionals teams support people in the community, in care homes, at the Great Western Hospital and at the Hospice in Wroughton. Care is also extended to the families and friends of patients.

Since 1980, Prospect Hospice has provided dedicated end-of-life care service for people living in Swindon, Marlborough and north east Wiltshire. We bring care, comfort and confidence, around the clock, every day of the year.

Our aim is to provide excellent, personalised and compassionate care for everyone in our community who is affected by a life-limiting illness. We work in close partnership with other organisations specifically with local health and social care professionals as well as local people. Working within our community allows us to lead, provide and influence care so that anyone affected by a life-limiting illness has access to the best possible support when and wherever they need it.