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Staff Nurse - HospiceMountbatten Hampshire • Southampton, United Kingdom
Staff Nurse - Hospice

Staff Nurse - Hospice

Mountbatten Hampshire • Southampton, United Kingdom
11 days ago
Job type
  • Part-time
Job description
Job summary
Are you a Registered Nurse, passionate about Palliative and End of Life care and looking for a new challenge?

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate part-time Staff Nurse to join our hospice team. This is a rewarding opportunity to provide high-quality, holistic care to patients with life-limiting illnesses and to support their families during some of the most challenging times of their lives.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver person-centred care that promotes dignity, comfort and quality of life, ensuring patients receive exceptional support throughout their hospice journey.

Part-time - 30 hours a week - you must be able to commit to a variety of shift patterns including nights, lates, earlies, Bank Holidays and weekends on a planned rota basis.

Please note: we are not part of the NHS and we do not hold a licence to enable visa sponsorship

Main duties of the job
As a member of our team you will have excellent opportunities for training and development to enable you to expand your skills within Palliative and End of Life Care.

You will be responsible for providing symptom management and complex end of life care to patients living with life limiting conditions. You will be able to make a real difference to peoples lives every single day, supporting our patients and their families.

You will also be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based patient care and for providing invaluable support to the patients family.

About You
You will be a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration, who is able to demonstrate a commitment to their own CPD.

You will have excellent clinical skills and experience and be able to work under supervision and on your own initiative to provide the highest standards of care and support to your patients and their families.

You will have good communication skills, with sound experience of symptom management gained with a Hospice/Hospital or Nursing Home environment.

You will be willing to learn new skills and expression to develop your own practices.

About us
Mountbatten Hampshire is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister Hospice is Mountbatten Isle of Wight.

We pride ourselves on providing expert care and support to our communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, who are facing death, dying and bereavement.

Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those closest to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.

Our Values
  • We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other
  • We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do
  • We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources
  • We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others

Job responsibilities
Overview of Role
To ensure the highest standards of individualised care for patients with life threatening diseases including providing support to their families and carers in a safe, friendly and efficient environment.

To communicate with patients, families and carers in a sensitive and empathetic way maintaining effective communication with multi-disciplinary team members. To work part of a multi professional team with professional shared learning under the supervision and guidance of nurses and medical teams.

Although based on our Inpatient Unit, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other teams to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.

Key Tasks
  • To provide the highest standards of care to patients.
  • To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care.
  • Ensure that you always act in the patients best interests, taking personal responsibility for actions and decisions taken.
  • Provide a holistic approach to all care provisions provided that is both sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs.
  • To provide out of hours specialist advice by telephone to patients, carers and allied professionals as required, alerting them to any significant matters.
  • Give and receive regular reposts on the progress of patients, reporting immediately any changes in the patients condition to the senior nurse/medical personnel as duty as required.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full duties and responsibilities of this role

Person Specification
Abilities
  • Able to work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays
  • Able to make effective use of available resources to benefit the patients and Mountbatten
  • Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations

Other
  • Physical capable carrying out manual handling duties as required by this role
  • Be prepared to assist with Hospice fundraising
  • Support and adopting of Mountbattens Values

Experience
  • Experience of dealing with vulnerable adults in a care setting
  • Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels
  • Awareness of palliative care issues
  • Experience of working in a Hospital/Hospice care setting

Skills
  • Understand specific needs of patients requiring palliative or end of life care
  • Demonstrate commitment to the patients right to be involved in decision making relating to their health care and ensuring decisions are understood by care teams
  • Ability to be an effective advocate for the patient with multi-disciplinary teams across all healthcare settings
  • Able to effectively manage own time and case load

Qualifications
  • 1st Level Register Nurse with current NMC registration
  • Revalidation of NMC Registration
  • Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
  • Clinically up to date in general nursing care

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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