Senior Night Nurse (Inpatient Unit)
The Myton Hospices
Coventry, CV2 2HJ · WARWICK, CV34 6PX
Salary
£35,788 to £38,549
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
22 September 2026
20 days left
Job description
Help us make a difference to people with life-limiting illnesses... At The Myton Hospices, we provide specialist care and support for people with life...
Our Senior Night Nurses
- Are clinically based on the inpatient unit with the highest level of complexity, patient acuity, dependency needs, or staffing pressures.
- Provide leadership, advice, guidance, and hands-on support to nursing and care staff working night shifts.
- Act as the primary point of contact for night staff requiring clinical or operational support.
- Assist with the management of complex patient care issues and challenging situations as they arise.
- Support and coordinate out-of-hours escalations, liaising with the Senior Nurse and Doctor On-Call when required.
- Promote safe, effective, and person-centred care throughout the night.
- Respond flexibly to changing service needs and priorities across both inpatient units as they may arise.
This is a nursing role, providing adult healthcare, so it will require an enhanced DBS check, including the adults barred list. We will cover the cost of this check.
This role involves working at both the Warwick and Coventry inpatient units. You must therefore be able to travel to both sites.
Summary of the role
- Working across both Inpatient Units, with a main base in Coventry, deploying at short
notice to the Warwick inpatient unit, where staffing shortages and/or increase in
patient acuity may arise. As an unassigned nurse (float), coordinate clinical activity
across both inpatient units, providing expert support, advice and guidance to staff,
and attending either unit as required to ensure safe, effective and responsive care
delivery at night.
- To coordinate the assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient
centred care. Facilitating a holistic approach; that is sensitive and responsive to
the ever-changing needs of both patients and their carer. Providing clinical
leadership in the absence of the Inpatient Unit Manager/Deputy ensuring an
evidence-based approach is promoted at all times within a multidisciplinary team
framework.
- Practice an approach that facilitates and fosters learning for students, junior staff
and those on placement to Myton. Sharing expertise appropriately and
supporting each learner to achieve their learning needs.
Myton Core Values
Our Core Values underpin everything we do and all employees are expected to
comply with our Values and reflect these in their day-to-day work.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
1. Leadership and Management
- Be clinically based on the inpatient unit with the highest level of patient acuity
complexity, dependency needs, or staffing pressures, ensuring visible clinical
leadership and hands on support where it is most needed.
- Provide leadership, advice, guidance and hands-on clinical support to nursing and
care staff working across both inpatient units during night shifts.
- Act as the primary point of contact for night staff requiring clinical, professional or
operational support, promoting effective decision-making and problem-solving.
- Support the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of complex patient care
providing expert guidance in challenging clinical situations as they arise.
- Coordinate and manage out-of-hours clinical and operational escalations, liaising
appropriately with the Senior Nurse and Doctor On-Call to ensure timely and
effective responses.
- Promote and uphold safe, effective, evidence-based and person-centred care
throughout the night.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across both inpatient units
attending either unit as required to provide support, advice and clinical leadership.
- Support staff wellbeing, development and confidence by acting as a role model
mentor and resource for colleagues working overnight.
- Supporting patient flow, where appropriate, for example, emergency
admissions/out of hours admission coordination, support teams to complete relevant
discharge paperwork in order to support timely discharges.
- Monitoring and responding to deteriorating patients in line with their ceiling of care.
- Identifying and escalating risks relating to staffing, patient safety or service delivery.
- Supporting learning, development and reflective practice amongst night staff.
- Recognise patients, families and carers as partners in the care team. Promoting a
person centred approach and working collaboratively with all members of the wider
multi-disciplinary team.
- Promote a multi-disciplinary approach to care delivery which may include
participating in MDT meetings, proactively preparing and presenting clinical
information at handover, MDTs, case reviews etc.
- Participate in group reflective practice to support the professional and personal
wellbeing and development of the team.
- Participate in the process of recruitment, induction and retention of staff and
volunteers.
- Provide emotional / spiritual support to patients and families throughout the disease
and dying trajectory, providing, and receiving highly complex, sensitive or
contentious information.
- Take responsibility for the Ward on a shift basis including the supervision of junior staff
and students.
- Support the Unit Manager and Deputy in supporting the volunteers on the Ward
ensuring effective communication is established and maintained.
- Work collaboratively with nursing and care teams and have a proactive approach
in facilitating discharge and ensure that standards of discharge are implemented
and maintained in liaison with the discharge co-ordinator.
2. Quality, Safety and Governance
- Uphold and ensure compliance with the organisation's policies and procedures
ensuring all volunteers are clear in relation to their roles and responsibilities for Health
and Safety, Infection prevention and control, Safeguarding Adults & Children, Data
protection and other relevant policies.
- Utilise a range of communication skills to instruct, inform and negotiate in order to
achieve active patient participation in their treatment programme; respecting their
dignity, wishes and beliefs throughout all interventions.
- Take an active role in risk assessment, supporting implementation of strategies to
minimise risk. Ensuring incidents and clinical adverse events and near misses are
reported and assist in the investigation at clinical level through promotion of a no
blame culture.
- Provide out of hours telephone support and advice for patients, relatives and
external healthcare professionals regarding symptom control and psychological
care and advice when required within sphere of responsibility and contact on-call
Medical Consultant as appropriate.
- Verify death of patients, perform last offices, provide bereavement support for
families and transfer deceased patients to the mortuary whilst ensuring the
philosophy of the hospice is respected and maintained.
- Participate in clinical audit as required by the organisational requirements and the
Clinical Governance agenda.
- Work in partnership with colleagues internally and externally to ensure that all
information pertaining to the patients condition and care needs are
communicated effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure that documentation is completed accurately and legibly in accordance with
the organisation's information governance guidance and confidentiality is
maintained using Caldecott Guidelines.
- Support a culture where the reporting of concerns, incidents and complaints are
encouraged and documented promptly.
3. Training and Education
- Support and participate in informal and formal programmes of education as
required.
- Be responsible for own continued professional development, maintaining up to
date evidence-based knowledge including an awareness of the national and
local influences affecting palliative and end of life care.
- Ensure own compliance with mandatory training and professional development
requirements, maintaining records of training and development undertaken for self
in preparation for NMC revalidation.
General Responsibilities & Obligations of all Employees
- Policies and Procedures: The post holder is required to have a good understanding of, and to comply with, all
relevant Myton policies, procedures and guidelines. Any contravention of Myton
policies or procedures may result in disciplinary action.
- Volunteers: Myton recognises the valuable contribution that volunteers make and we expect all
employees to be able to support and work effectively with our volunteers.
- Confidentiality and Data protection: It is a requirement of employment with Myton that all staff must comply with the
obligation of confidentiality relating to personal information that could identify
individuals. The Data Protection Act 1974/1998 safeguards the handling of
information held in both electronic and manual filing systems and it is the duty of all
staff employed by Myton to uphold the principles of the Act, adhere to Myton
policies and to maintain strict confidentiality at all times.
- Infection Control: All employees of Myton must be aware of infection prevention and control
policies and are expected to follow them at all times. Any breach of infection
control policies which places patients, visitors or colleagues at risk may result in
disciplinary action.
- Equality & Diversity: The post-holder must at all times carry out his/her responsibilities in line with
Mytons Equality & Diversity Policy.
- Health & Safety: Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, to ensure the agreed safety procedures
are carried out to maintain a safe working environment for patients, visitors &
colleagues. The post holder is required to conform with Mytons policies on
Health & Safety and Fire Prevention, & to attend related training as required.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children: Its the duty of all staff working for Myton to safeguard children and vulnerable
adults and undertake safeguarding training at an appropriate level.
- Code of Conduct: Employees are required to represent Myton in a positive light and embody the
corporate identity in appearance, demeanour, values and ethics.
- Review of Job Description: This job description is an outline of the key duties and responsibilities of the role
and is not intended as an exhaustive list. The job description may change over
time to reflect the changing needs of the service. The post holder may be
required to undertake other duties that could reasonably be considered
commensurate with the post. This job description is subject to periodic review
and may be changed/updated following consultation with the postholder(s).
Myton is an amazing place to work, where the role every person plays has a positive impact for our patients, living with terminal illnesses, and their families. In recognition of this, we offer a wide range of benefits including:
- NHS pension
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing with long service
- Additional leave purchasing
- Free parking at our hospice sites
- Winter savings club
- Discount schemes including Blue Light Card
- Dedicated staff wellbeing team & mental health first aiders
- Colleague Support Service: confidential financial, legal & mental health support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site flu jabs
- Free feminine hygiene products
- 24/7 GP access
- Free eye tests
- #DoingOurBit online fitness and wellbeing platform
We now share interview questions with all candidates in advance, to help reduce nerves and enable you to truly show your best abilities. You are also welcome to bring any notes with you to your interview, if you would find this helpful.
Other
Essential
- Flexible working hours
- Commitment to the Myton values
- Ability to work alone and as a member of a team
- Good IT skills
- Occupational Health Clearance
- Ability to travel between sites
- The right to work in the UK (we cannot provide sponsorship)
Accountability for Staff & Volunteers
Essential
- Experience of appraising and supporting junior staff members
Desirable
- Experience of working with volunteers
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to place patient and family at centre of care
- Excellent personal and communication skills
- Teaching and assessing skills
- Excellent organisational ability
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Creative, resourceful and imaginative
- Excellent role model
- Familiarity of systems for quality, clinical governance and clinical audit
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult) degree or diploma level
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of continual professional development and education
Desirable
- Specialist Qualification in Palliative Care
- Relevant specialist course, e.g. Palliative care / advanced communications.
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience of needs assessment / care planning
- Experience of Multi-disciplinary Team working
- Caring for patients at the end of life
- Experience of caring for patients and families with life limiting / life
- threatening conditions
- Good knowledge of assessment and symptom management
Desirable
- Experience caring for patients with complex health needs
- Experience working in palliative care setting
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2 September 2026
Last checked
2 September 2026
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