Job summary
We are seeking compassionate, highly motivated, and skilled Senior Staff Nurses to join our dedicated hospice community team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide expert, person-centred care to patients with palliative and end-of-life care needs in their own homes and community settings.

Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will play a key role in supporting patients and their families, promoting quality of life, symptom management, and dignity throughout their care journey.

Bank - zero hours contract.

A clean driving licence and use of a vehicle with business insurance is essential.

Hours a week to be worked flexibly to include days, nights, weekends and bank holidays on a shift rota basis

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

Main duties of the job
The Senior Staff Nurse - Community roles will contribute to the provision of specialist palliative and end of life care in the community, being based at Mountbatten Hampshire.

Under the supervision of the Locality Leads, they will work autonomously and as a member of the Community Palliative Care Team influencing the delivery of ongoing patient care, as well as providing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professions within the community.

About us
Mountbatten Isle of Wight is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister hospice is Mountbatten Hampshire.

We pride ourselves on providing expert care and support to our communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, who are facing death, dying and bereavement.

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
KEY TASKS

• To provide an environment that encourages patients and their families to play an active part in their care enabling them to voice their wishes about current and future care requirements
• To provide advanced levels of clinical decision-making through assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support patients, families and carers who have complex or rapidly changing physical symptoms, emotional or practical needs
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients care needs as required by your designated patients, including admittance to the Hospice/Hospital and advanced care planning including identifying their preferred place of death
• Provide appropriate pain and symptom management and provide directional support for their psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, their families, and carers
• Provide support, information and advice to patients, families, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals, including supporting the Mountbatten Care Co-Ordination Centre
• Prioritise daily duties in response to patient and family requirements in a manner that maintains and promotes quality, NMC code of practice, the patients care needs and the values of Mountbatten
• To be fully conversant with organisational medicines policies and palliative care guidelines, algorithms and administer medication in line with these controls procedures
• To provide training support in the use of syringe drivers and provide teaching to others including, staff nurses and students in collaboration with the Community Team and other professionals
• In accordance with Mountbatten Infection Control policy and procedures, promote an environment that supports infection prevention and control policies and procedures, ensuring that they and other staff practice in accordance with these documents
• The postholder will act as an advocate for their patients and families ensuring their views are known to the team including in the case of advance care planning and occasions where offered care is declined
• To be familiar with and implement safeguarding policies, the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (DOLS)
• Identify risks as they arise and carry out risk assessments, taking immediate remedial action as required and updating risk assessments regularly and notify Managers immediately, ensuring these are added to the Risk Register
• Ensure self and others adhere promptly to the incident reporting policy and complete appropriate forms and action plans
• Record all patient information on the designated Mountbatten systems, including SystmOne and ensure that all patient records are accurate and maintained in accordance with procedures
• To provide ongoing support to carers and families at the time of death and in the early days of bereavement including contributing to the provision of bereavement support

~~~Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full duties and responsibilities of this rewarding role~~~

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable experience of caring for vulnerable adults in a care/hospital or hospice setting
• Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers

Skills
Essential

• Strong communication skills needed to explain complex and sensitive information effectively in both written and oral to both patients, families, carers and other professionals
• Excellent IT Skills

Qualifications
Essential

• First Level Registration with NMC and in possession of a relevant degree in Health/Nursing Studies

Desirable

• Registered Independent Prescriber (V300) or willingness to undertake
• Mentorship qualification
• Teaching qualification or module

Other
Essential

• Physically capable of undertaking safe manual handling of patients and equipment
• Full UK Driving Licence (Clean) (Manual)

Abilities
Essential

• Able to adapt to the specific needs of patients requiring palliative or end of life care
• Able to be an effective advocate for the patient with multi-disciplinary teams across all healthcare settings
• Able to work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.