Registered Nurse – Inpatient unit Berkshire

Pulse is delighted to be cooperating with a beautiful hospice in Reading, you will play an active role within their team. It’s all about giving patients the best possible quality of life. The support offered is tailored to meet individuals’ medical, social, spiritual and emotional needs.

Setting in a 15 bed inpatient unit, providing care to adults from 18 years old.

Great nurse to patient ration enabling you to spend more quality time with your patients as they near end of life or are given the best support living with a terminal illness.

Playing an important part to someone’s last moments by creating memory boxes, helping them feel comfortable. You will also face some more complex patients who will require symptom control and need more support.

Full time & part time hours
12 hour and 7.5 hour shifts on offer
Contracts for nights and weekends available

Benefits

• Enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• Company pension scheme
• Funded Palliative care course to upskill and enable you to have the best skill set for the role*
•  27 days holiday – rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
•  Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
•  Enhanced sick pay
•  Continuation of NHS pension (T&Cs apply)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care using evidence-based guidelines
• Provide support, leadership appraisal and supervision to team members as appropriate
• Act as an ambassador of the hospice to service users and their relatives, colleagues and members of the public.
• To ensure continuity of patient care by communicating and liaising with medical, nursing and other colleagues, providing accurate and timely reports of any changes in the condition of the patient
• provide exceptional patient care at all times
• An ability to work in a complex and stressful environment demonstrating effective and appropriate coping strategies

Requirements  

• You will be an NMC registered nurse
• Relevant post-registration training or willing and able to gain within 1 year
• Palliative care knowledge and experience 

If you would like to find out more about this fantastic role, then please click on “Apply for this role” now to submit your most recent CV and someone in the team will be in contact with you