Job summarySt Michaels Hospice supports and enables the community of Hastings and Rother to live well with dying, death and loss. Our services are provided via in-patient beds and at home and we also offer Wellbeing support, both out-patient and virtual.
Main duties of the jobThe post holder will contribute to developing and maintaining a highly skilled clinical workforce and a strong culture of safety, quality and continuous improvement across the Hospice. The role combines clinical education with quality and governance functions, ensuring that high quality, evidence based, person centred care is delivered consistently.
The Clinical Education and Quality Nurse designs and delivers education programmes, supports clinical governance processes, coordinates quality improvement and audit activity and acts as Deputy Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer (Deputy CDAO).
About usAt St Michaels Hospice we offer a friendly, team orientated work environment a good pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership, an Employee Assistance Programme (Benenden Healthcare), up to 33days annual leave plus bank holidays, subsidised employee meals and free refreshments, free parking, supportive supervision and a proactive Education Department to support with your development. Hospice employees also qualify for a Blue Light Card with access to a huge array of discounts.
Job responsibilitiesFor full details of this vacancy please see the full Job Description and Personal Specification attached.
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Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 RegistrationApplicants 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. 
