Community Palliative Response Senior Nurse/Paramedic- Overnight Service

The Role

Community Palliative Response Senior Nurse/Paramedic Overnight SW Herts

Hours: 37.5 per week/part-time available

Location: Rennie Grove Peace, South West Herts

Salary: £37,338 per annum (pro rata)

Closing date: 05 December 2024 at midday (12:00)

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm – 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients’ home environment including, as required, in care homes.

Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care.

You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:

• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own homes to provide palliative and end of life care.
• To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients’ everchanging needs.
• To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others’ safety by adhering to the lone worker policy and procedure requirements.

If your application is successful, you’ll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.

For an informal chat about this role contact Sharon Parkins, Head of SW Herts Community Services on Sharon.Parkins@renniegrovepeace.org

Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.

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.

The Company

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It’s important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.

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