About the role
Salary: £32610.90 to £38762.85
St Clare Hospice is a charity that provides specialist palliative care to patients and families in West Essex and the East Hertfordshire borders.
Are you passionate about delivering truly person-centred care in a hospice setting where time, compassion, and dignity are prioritised? At St Clare Hospice, we offer a rare opportunity to work in an environment where you can focus on what matters most - providing outstanding palliative and end-of-life care with the time and space to do it properly.
We are currently recruiting to our 8-bedded Inpatient Unit, a calm and supportive space where patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do.
You do not need to be an expert in palliative care to join our team - what matters most is your compassion, commitment, and willingness to learn. We are looking for the right person, and we will support you with full training and development to help you thrive in your role.
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide a high standard of specialist palliative care to patients and their families. To lead the shift, ensuring that high standards of care across the IPU are maintained.
To be a safe practitioner and work within the NMC Code of professional standards
of practice and behaviour.
Provide holistic assessment of patients and families care needs, plan interventions required and ensure those interventions are actioned and their effectiveness evaluated.
To communicate effectively with patients and families, ensuring they are actively involved with their own care planning.
To support patients and families through grief and loss and the life changing consequences of a palliative diagnosis.
To liaise with appropriate members of the multi-professional team (internal and external to the organisation) in order to ensure co-ordination and continuity of care on discharge and a smooth transition between different care settings.
To maintain clear, accurate and legible patient documentation.
To work across the 24-hour service, including weekends, nights and bank holidays as required.