Staff Nurse - Hospice Inpatient Unit
Mountbatten Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight, PO30 2ER
Salary
£31,062 to £37,808
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 September 2026
2 days left
Job description
Make Every Moment Matter We are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Staff Nurse to join our Hospice Inpatient Unit. This is a rewarding opportun...
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 provide the highest standards of care to patients.
To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient
centred care.
Ensure 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 assist in providing pain and symptom control to patients who require pain relief.
To provide out of hours specialist advice by telephone to patients, carers and allied
professionals as required, alerting them to any significant matters.
- **Please refer to the attached Staff Nurse Job Description, which includes the Person Specification, for the full duties of this rewarding role***
At Mountbatten making our employees feel valued is as important to us as making sure that our patients are safe. We are looking for people that live our values to help us make a difference to the thousands of patients and their families who come to us for help and support every year.
Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those close 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
Other
Essential
- Physical capable carrying out manual handling duties as required by this role
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult)
- Registered with NMC and PIN
Experience
Essential
- 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
Abilities
Essential
- Able to work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays
Skills
Essential
- Understands 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
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
18 August 2026
Last checked
20 August 2026
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