Staff Nurse - Hospice Inpatient Unit

Job summary

Make Every Moment Matter

We are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Staff Nurse to join our Hospice Inpatient Unit. This is a rewarding opportunity to provide high-quality, person-centred palliative and end-of-life care to patients with life-limiting illnesses, while supporting their families and loved ones.

As part of our multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in delivering specialist care that enhances quality of life, respects individual wishes, and promotes dignity, comfort and choice.

Please note: we are not part of the NHS and therefore we do not hold a licence to enable visa sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

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***

Person specification

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