Registered Nurse - Clinical outpatients

At St Luke’s Hospice, we believe everyone deserves to live as well as possible, with compassionate care, support and dignity. We are looking for a compassionate, skilled and motivated Registered Nurse to join our nursing team in Clinical outpatients and help us deliver outstanding, person centred palliative and end of life care to patients and their families.

This is an opportunity to use your clinical expertise to make a meaningful difference, supporting patients with complex needs while working collaboratively with a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

About the role

As a Registered Nurse, you will play a key role in assessing, planning and delivering high quality holistic care, ensuring that each patient’s physical, emotional, psychological, social, spiritual and cultural needs are recognised and met.

You will work closely with patients, families, carers and colleagues across the Hospice and community services to ensure care is coordinated, compassionate and tailored to individual needs.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering excellent clinical care: Undertake holistic assessments, develop individualised care plans and regularly review patients’ needs to ensure care remains appropriate and effective.

• Using your clinical skills: Carry out clinical procedures such as venepuncture, cannulation, intravenous medication administration, blood product transfusions, ascitic drainage and central venous catheter (CVC) line care. Training will be provided where required competencies have not yet been achieved.

• Working collaboratively: Actively participate in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, contribute to patient reviews and ensure effective handovers and communication between professionals.

• Supporting patients and families: Provide sensitive, compassionate support to patients, relatives and carers throughout illness and end of life care, maintaining confidentiality and building trusting relationships.

• Promoting safety and quality: Ensure medications, treatments and clinical interventions are delivered safely and in line with Hospice policies, procedures and professional standards. Maintain accurate and timely clinical records using SystmOne.

• Coordinating care: Work in partnership with Hospice and community teams to ensure patients receive appropriate support and wherever possible, avoid unnecessary or inappropriate hospital admissions.

• Supporting and developing colleagues: Contribute to the learning and development of colleagues, support students and new team members, and participate in clinical supervision, reflective practice and team debriefs.

• Maintaining professional development: Keep up to date with current research and evidence based practice, attend mandatory training and study days, and contribute to clinical audits and service improvement.

• Taking responsibility: Support the day to day running of Clinical Outpatients, taking charge of a shift when required and helping to maintain high standards of care, safety and teamwork.

About you

We are looking for a nurse who is passionate about delivering compassionate, person-centred care and who understands the importance of supporting patients and those close to them during challenging times.

You will be able to demonstrate:

• Strong clinical assessment and decision making skills.

• A compassionate, empathetic and respectful approach to patient care.

• The ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with patients, families and colleagues.

• Experience of working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

• A commitment to clinical safety, accurate record keeping and evidence based practice.

• An interest in palliative and end of life care and a willingness to develop specialist knowledge and skills.

• A commitment to supporting colleagues, sharing knowledge and contributing to continuous improvement.

• The ability to work effectively with people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds.

• You will also be committed to ongoing professional development and maintaining the highest standards of nursing practice.

Salary: £28,848.94 - £34,780.03/year (depending on experience)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 22.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday working hours
Location: On-site Basildon

Why join St Luke’s Hospice?

At St Luke’s Hospice, you will be part of a dedicated team working together to provide compassionate care, comfort and support to patients and their loved ones when they need it most.

You will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills, contribute to the continued improvement of our services and make a genuine difference within your local community.

If you are a caring and committed nurse looking for a rewarding role where your skills and compassion can have a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.

About applying

When applying don't forget to answer the questions in our application process to tell us more about how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience to be successful in this role.

Right to Work

St. Luke's Hospice is unable to sponsor work permits or visas. All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Belonging, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

At St Luke's Hospice, we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes for the people who access our services. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, LGBT+ and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as these groups are currently under-represented in our teams. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of access requirements for people who have a disability.