Senior Staff nurse – Palliative Care Reading
Senior Staff nurse – Palliative Care Reading
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Pulse currently has an exciting permanent opportunity for a senior nurse to work in a small hospice in Reading, Berkshire. The hospice is part of a large charity who provide expert palliative care and end of life care within a beautiful setting to thousands of locals each year. Playing an active role within the team, its all about giving patients the best possible quality of life for controlling their symptoms or providing end of life care. The support offered is tailored to meet individual needs, medically, socially and spiritually.
Full time & part time hours available
Day shifts are from 7am to 7:30pm (12 hours).
Night shifts are from 7pm to 7:30am (12 hours), on a full rotation basis.
£33,613 to £37,875 Per Annum DoE pro rata
Staff ratio is good with three registered nurses and three or four HCAs per shift to care for 12 to 15 patients. Night shifts are two registered nurses and two HCAs
Duties and Responsibilities
- To lead the nursing team in developing the quality of nursing care, acting as a source of support and advice to colleagues and relatives
- Participate in the senior nurse on call rota
- Be a shift co-ordinator after a period of orientation
- Provide support, leadership appraisal and supervision to team members as appropriate
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the service user in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate individualised care using evidence-based guidelines
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Company pension scheme
- 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)
Pulse is an employment agency/employment business (as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003) and is acting on behalf of its client in relation to this vacancy.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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