Senior Hospice at Home Nurse
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (11.5 hour shifts over a seven day rota)
Location: Watford & Hertsmere Locality but may be required to work within all RGP geographical localities
Clinical Salary: Band 6, £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
Closing date: 17 November 2026 at 12 noon
Interview date: 26 November 2026

What you’ll do

• Carry out holistic assessment of patients and those close to them, and develop, deliver and evaluate individualised care plans.
• Deliver fundamental and complex specialist interventions in the home, including symptom management within the RGP medicines framework, syringe driver care and, once competent, verification of expected death.
• Respond to SOS and unplanned calls: assess, act within your competence, and escalate to the CNS, out of hrs advice line, or 111 when the situation needs decisions beyond your scope.
• Deliver hands-on care when it is right for the patient, including on crisis response and unplanned care visits.
• Communicate sensitive information with skill and care, supporting families before and after bereavement.
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous records and hand over clearly across shifts and services.
• Work autonomously within your competence and agreed plans, recognising the limits of your own competence and escalating appropriately.

What you’ll bring

• Registered Nurse (NMC) with current registration
• Post-registration experience in a relevant setting (community, acute, long-term conditions, oncology or palliative care)
• Experience of coordinating a shift or caseload and of supervising or delegating to support staff
• Assesses, plans and evaluates care autonomously, and recognises when a situation needs escalation
• Communicates skilfully in emotionally demanding situations, including with people who are dying and those close to them
• Plans and prioritises a shift of visits across a locality, adjusting as demand changes
• Confident use of an electronic patient record and Microsoft 365
• Can show how they work in line with RGP’s values: compassionate, supportive, inclusive and collaborative, with examples that match RGP’s behavioural indicators.

What we’ll grow in you

• Post-registration study in palliative care or a related area, or completion of an agreed module within 18 months with RGP support
• Practice supervisor or assessor preparation, with RGP support
• Experience of specialist palliative care; experience of audit or quality improvement; a champion or link role

Our commitment to you
A named supervisor and resilience-based clinical supervision; funded completion of the items marked D+ with study time in line with the L&D policy; the booklet as a development map; honest conversations at IPR about your next step, including the Band 6 to 7 route.

The role will suit someone who

• Is flexible and enjoys the variety of work in a fast-moving environment
• Has good interpersonal skills
• Has strong organisational skills

Fairness and access
If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

What you will need

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Full, current valid UK driving licence.
• Access to a vehicle which can be used for work purposes.
• Car insurance, including business cover
• Disclosure and Barring Services Check
• Professional registration (e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC, BACP)
• A good level of IT literacy is required, including confidence in using Microsoft Office applications, email, and other digital systems relevant to the role

Contact
For an informal chat about this role contact Amanda Hudson, Business, Operations & Performance Manager, Community Hospice at Home. Apply via the company portal.

Are you ready to make a difference?
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

Our commitment to Equality and Diversity
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
If you are disabled and best meet the minimum requirements for the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.