Senior Registered Nurse (Hospice at Home)

We are looking for two skilled and compassionate nurses to join our experienced and supportive Hospice at Home team, could it be you? Both roles will care for patients and families across our North Lancashire and South Lakes communities, with one post based from the Hospice in Lancaster and the other from our Windermere base. These roles matter. At St John's Hospice, we place patients and those closest to them at the heart of everything we do, and our Hospice at Home service provides specialist palliative and end of life care in the comfort and familiarity of a person's own home. If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference during some of life's most challenging moments, we would love to hear from you. This is a rewarding role where clinical expertise, compassion and dignity underpin the care and support we provide. You will deliver skilled, person-centred nursing care to patients with complex palliative and end of life care needs. Hospice at Home serves the whole of North Lancashire, South Lakeland, Cumbria and includes parts of North Yorkshire, and visits may be anywhere in this catchment area. It is essential you hold a full UK manual driving licence and access to a vehicle during working hours.,

• To provide skilled nursing care for patients with palliative and end of life care needs and their family in a community setting.
• To raise clinical standards and promote a learning environment for other health care providers. Be responsible for planning, assessing, implementing and evaluating patient care.
• Works effectively with community professionals, support services and members of the primary health care and palliative care teams.
• To support and direct Registered Nurses, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants in implementing individualised plans of care.
• To lead and coordinate shifts, managing the team of Registered Nurses, Assistant Practitioners, Healthcare Assistants and volunteers, ensuring future shifts are adequately covered with staff according to the changing needs of the service.
• Support and contribute to an environment of continuous quality improvement.
• Work flexibly to meet service demands, which will include unsocial hours, weekends, bank holidays as part of the nursing rota, as well as rotating to other appropriate patient care areas within the organization as required.
The ideal candidate would have previously worked in a community setting; however, we would welcome applications from experienced individuals without community service.

St John's Hospice is a well established and respected local charity, offering free palliative care to patients with life shortening conditions both in our Inpatient Ward Unit and within the community, through our Hospice at Home service. The St Johns Hospice at Home team is a dedicated group of Nurses and Health Care Assistants, who are skilled and experienced in caring for people in the last few weeks of life. They provide this care in patients homes from Grasmere to Garstang and from Sedbergh to Morecambe including remote areas. Our Hospice at Home service is led by an experienced and supportive Management Team. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and you would play a key role in a person's wish to stay, and be cared for within their own home, providing crucial care for them and their loved ones. The Hospice at Home team work closely with District Nursing teams and GPs, making sure palliative patients have the extra attention and specialist care they need. Our service works alongside them, not instead of them. St John's Hospice is rated as CQC Good.