Are you an enthusiastic Registered Nurse who wants to give the best possible care? Have you thought about a career in Specialist Palliative Care at St Elizabeth Hospice?
St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our most recent Care Quality Commission report rated the hospice as Outstanding.
Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families.
The hospices work is centred on the individual’s needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital or in the hospice itself., We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join the Reactive Service within our Community Nursing Team on a permanent basis. You will provide specialist palliative care advice and support to patients in the East Suffolk area working at an enhanced level of practice to manage patients in complex, challenging and changing situations and environments.
To thrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate experience in influencing the holistic care of patients and carers with end of life and specialist palliative care needs. This is a chance to make a real difference to peoples lives.
The ideal candidate will possess skills and capabilities across all four pillars of nursing: clinical practice, education, research and leadership and will be required to function to a high level of autonomy within specialist palliative care.
Please note that we have a flexible workforce policy which means that employees will be deployed in other areas when there is the need to do so. This benefits service users and employees.
St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.
The hospice offers a generous benefit package, including:
- 27 days annual leave entitlement
- Pension scheme
- Life Cover
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Car Leasing Scheme
- Health Service Discounts
- Occupational Sick Pay
- Blue Light Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
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