Community Services Registered Nurse (Nights)

At Severn Hospice we provide compassionate and specialist care for people living with incurable illness and we are looking for a dedicated and empathetic Registered Nurse to join our community team, covering nights. As part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, holistic and person-centred palliative care to patients in their own homes. As a confident practitioner you will have the confidence to work alone and at night. Liaising with hospice colleagues and wider primary care teams, you will support patients with complex and changing needs, enabling them to remain safely at home wherever possible. Using your clinical expertise, you will undertake assessments, symptom management and timely interventions in response to immediate patient need, providing care with dignity, respect and kindness at a crucial time in peoples lives. You will build supportive relationships with patients, families, GPs and community professionals, ensuring effective communication and coordinated care. Caring is what we do best - and that includes caring for our staff. You will work in a friendly, fulfilling and supportive environment, with access to clinical supervision, strong peer support and a culture that values compassion, respect and excellence. We are also committed to your development, offering excellent professional and personal learning opportunities via our on-site Skills Lab and education team.Main duties of the job The post holder will provide advice and support to patients and establish supportive relationships with GPs and other community teams. The post holder will demonstrate palliative assessment skills, and will be able to support, illustrate, and disseminate such skills to other practitioners while benefiting patient care. To function as a competent clinical practitioner to deliver direct patient care in response to an immediate need. The post holder will participate in the planning, development and evaluation of palliative care services provided to patients in the community. The post holder will take a supportive role in the provision of specialist palliative care education, promoting evidence-based practice. Support the avoidance of unnecessary and unwanted admissions to hospital or hospice, particularly in the last few days of life. The registered nurse will be one of a team, providing care and support to the patient within the home environment. They will ensure effective liaison and communication with both the Hospice Nurse Practitioners and key professionals involved in the patients care. To support the provision of a triage service on a rotational basis, receiving incoming calls, taking messages, and responding accordingly.

Caring is what we do best - and that includes caring for our staff. You will work in a friendly, fulfilling and supportive environment, with access to clinical supervision, strong peer support and a culture that values compassion, respect and excellence.

We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including:

• Excellent professional and personal development opportunities with our on-site Skills Lab and Education team
• High inpatient staff to patient ratio
• Continuation of NHS pension scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Health and wellbeing support framework
• Clinical supervision
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Death in service
• Blue Light Card discount scheme
• Use of hospice canteens including designated outside spaces