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Community Overnight Service Lead

Hours :  22.5 hours per week

Location :  Peace Hospice, Watford

Salary : Rennie Grove Peace Band 7  : £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata)

Closing date : 20 May 2025 at 12 noon

Interview date :  28 May 2025

The role of Community Overnight Service Lead is in place to provide leadership and high quality specialist palliative practitioner care, skills, advice and support to patients, carers and those important to the patient. This role will directly manage a team of band 6 nurses, paramedics and HCA’s. Demonstrate the ability to prioritise and reprioritise essential in this role.

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9 : 15pm - 7 : 15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients’ home environment including, as required, in care homes. Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie grove Peace Care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.

You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas :

• Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of clinical practice in palliative care.
• Support the Community Services Business, Operations and Performance Manager to develop the overnight service, collaborating with external organisations to improve patient 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.
• Ensure all written and verbal communication is accurate and legible in accordance with NMC and the hospice policies and guidelines.
• Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested.
• Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to practice participating in approved research projects.
• Identify risk involved in patient care and lone working, escalating concerns where  appropriate and implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents.
• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home to provide palliative and end of life care.
• To be responsible for the co-ordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace Care staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the Lone Worker policy and procedure requirements.
• To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers / families physical, emotional spiritual, practical, welfare right and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement need, using a variety of tools to support the process. To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans.
• At identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.
• To signpost and inform patients and their families / carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.

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All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Please note, we do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.

If successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.

For an informal chat about this role contact Sharon Parkins, Head of SW Herts Community Services at

Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.

Our commitment to Equality and Diversity

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.