Registered Nurse (Hospice / Palliative Care)

Your role as a Hospice Nurse

As a Hospice Nurse, youll lead by example in delivering high-quality, holistic care within our welcoming inpatient unit. Youll provide vital support not just to patients, but to families and colleagues helping to create an environment of trust, peace, and compassion and work in a close-knit team where kindness, empathy, and clinical expertise truly matter.

This Hospice Nurse role is based in Thirsk, North Yorkshire and is commutable from areas including Ripon, Darlington, Durham, York and Teesside.

Develop tailored care plans, administer medication and manage symptoms to ensure comfort

Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team and manage patient admissions and discharges

Provide emotional support for patients and families, offering compassionate care

We are seeking a registered nurse who is not only clinically skilled but also deeply compassionate, someone who sees hospice care as a vocation, not just a role.

A registered nurse with a valid nursing qualification, 2-years post-qualification experience and current NMC registration having passed your first validation

A passion for palliative, hospice, or specialist ward care

Strong communication skills and a calm, empathetic approach to complex care situations

The ability to work independently and as part of a close-knit team

Registered Nurse (Hospice

/ Palliative Care)

Plan and deliver patient-centred care, working closely with patients and their families.

Once trained, act as the shift coordinator, overseeing high-quality team nursing care and coordinating wider team care that puts patients' at the heart of what we do.

Act as the key worker for a designated caseload, showing nursing leadership by providing care as part of a multidisciplinary team.

1. Places quality at the centre of care by providing evidence-based, individualised, and personalised support through holistic needs assessment, risk assessments, care planning, and evaluation of all care interventions. Follows agreed care and support plans and actively integrates theory and practice into daily work.

2. Acts as a Key Worker for a clinical caseload, working proactively to manage care and provide easy access to ongoing support. Assesses patients' information needs and provides relevant information through various means. Helps patients understand and evaluate complex information, enabling them to make informed decisions about their future.

3. Fosters self-management by assessing patients' ability to self-manage, providing education, and guiding those who require support in managing their condition.

4. Demonstrates excellent communication skills and expertise in hospice care, including the ability to manage emotional distress for patients and their loved ones when needed.

5. Provides clinical expertise, advice, and support across service boundaries, referring to other professionals and signposting to relevant agencies as necessary.

6. Contributes to nursing-led service development, promoting excellence in care.

7. Promotes clinical excellence through innovation, audit, evaluation, and research.

8. Maintains accurate patient records.

1. Effectively allocates work and maintains responsibility for delegated tasks.

2. Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high-quality, person-centred care and using a co-creating care approach with patients and their families affected by life-limiting illnesses.

3. Contributes to the education and training of other healthcare professionals involved in patient care.

4. Supports the development and promotion of the hospice, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care.

5. Encourages patient and community involvement within the practice setting.

6. Collects accurate and comprehensive data to provide evidence of activity, outcomes, and quality.

7. Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.

8. Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as a patient advocate and representing nursing views.

9. Ensures that patients and their families are aware of the full range of resources and services available through the hospice.

10. Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation to handle difficult or challenging situations.

11. Supports the development of patient-focused education, including training to manage treatment side effects effectively.

12. Acts as a mentor or preceptor, guiding new staff members and students.

1. Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.

2. Works across professional boundaries, employing creative reasoning, positivity and problem-solving.

3. Supports and manages change.

1. Acquires and applies clinical, technical, and evaluation skills through a broad and in-depth knowledge base.

2. Utilises clinical expertise, clinical judgement, creative thinking, and experience to enhance patient care, seeking support from others when necessary.

3. Assesses nursing practice and proposes improvements as required, drawing on patient experiences to drive change.

4. Takes personal responsibility for ongoing learning and development through reflective practice, self-appraisal, and actively engages with the learning and development opportunities provided by the hospice.

Special Features of the job

Working autonomously within a team, you'll deliver patient-centred and holistic care. Our service operates 24/7, 365 days a year, with clinical roles rostered to ensure round-the-clock coverage. Although rosters are planned in advance, there may be times when you'll need to adjust your scheduled rota at short notice. If this is the case, we can make individual arrangements, provided they align with our Flexible Working Policy and are approved by the Director responsible for the service.

In necessary circumstances, we may need to make last-minute changes to shifts to maintain high-quality, safe patient care. We'd initially ask for your cooperation, only resorting to compulsory changes if necessary.

We warmly encourage all staff and volunteers at the Hospice to play an active role in identifying and fulfilling their development needs related to their jobs. We aim to support you through various processes, such as regular one-on-one meetings with your Line Managers or senior colleagues, plus annual appraisal and development reviews.

Every employee benefits from an annual appraisal, and to make the most of this opportunity, it's important to engage fully in the review and collaborate with your Line Manager on your individual, team, and organisational objectives.

Additionally, we kindly ask each employee to participate in all relevant mandatory and statutory training, as required by our organisation and /or their professional bodies.

We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do

We are caring and compassionate

We are personal and supportive in our approach

We engage positively

We are responsive

We are driven to do better

We are fair

We are professional

We work collaboratively

We are accountable

Living out our values

Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes atsaintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities.

We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services, please see our safeguarding statement on our website:https://saintmichaelshospice.org/safeguarding-statement/

If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing people@saintmichaelshospice.org.

We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.

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