Staff Nurse

Job summary

This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare are delighted to offer a Band 5 nursing position within our hospice team. This is an exciting new opportunity with the potential to work across various settings to meet the needs of patients approaching the end of their lives. This includes the hospice inpatient setting and patients usual place of residence. The role will rotate through these settings depending on patient requirement at that time.

Bassetlaw Hospice is a purpose built unit, providing palliative care services to patients with complex incurable progressive illness and those important to them. We have recently renovated our building offering more space in which to deliver care and more resources to offer training and support to our own staff and to support our ambitions to provide more services across the local community.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced registered nurse with a keen interest in palliative / end of life care who wish to further develop their skills in this speciality and be part of our growing team.

Main duties of the job

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing holistic assessment, symptom control and management and emotional support to patients with a range of life-limiting illnesses and their families.

Care is provided over the 24 hour period via internal shift rotation (inclusive of long days and night shifts and including weekends). This post requires the candidate to be able to work across the full range of shifts required so please ensure you are able to meet these requirements prior to your application.

The role will work across all areas of our services including community outreach and our day areas supporting our outpatient care. Working flexibly to meet patient needs in whatever setting is required.

Services are also delivered at our sister specialist unit John Eastwood Hospice and there are opportunities for cross site working and further development opportunities.

You must be a 1st level registered nurse with current NMC registration able to practice in the UK.

You will be able to evidence a range of clinical skills to meet the growing complexity and acuity of patients requiring palliative care, including patient assessment, pain and symptom management, wound and continence care, falls management and support to all other aspects of daily living

Excellent communication skills are essential and you should display the empathy, passion and good humour to work within this complex speciality.

About us

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

#TeamNottsHC

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full breadth and experience required for the role.

We are particularly interested to hear from candidates bringing experience from frailty, long term conditions and acute specialities.

In return we will offer you the support of a close working team including induction and preceptorship, and investment in your training and development to help you to move forward in your career in palliative care.

Regular car user is essential to the fulfillment of this role

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

First level registered nurse with current registration. UK citizen or clearance to work in the UK

Desirable

Approved mentor course. Specific post-basic study relating to palliative care. Recognised qualification in palliative care or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

Able to demonstrate experience as a staff nurse in a relevant adult care setting Palliative care and end of life care experience.

Desirable

Recent experience in a specialist palliative care setting. Experience of mentoring students Experience of co-ordinating in a 'stand alone' unit such as a Hospice. Recent NHS experience

Knowledge, Attitude & Skills

Essential

Effective, comprehensive written and verbal communication skills. Sound clinical skills. Able to demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload, ability to use initiative. Willingness to undertake training according to the needs of the service. Demonstration of team working Evidence of ongoing medicines management

Desirable

Experience of clinical supervision. Experience of using syringe drivers. knowledge and understanding of trust values

Values and Behaviours

Essential

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

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