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SalaryHours/Contract: Full time but part time may be considered.
Contract Type: Permanent - Rotational days, nights, and weekends
Based: Newcastle Hospice In-patient unit
Closing date: 14th April 2024
Interview date: 25th April 2024
Marie Curie Benefits Package
- Season ticket loan -for travelling to and from work.
- Defined contribution schemes for Pension (the charity will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
- Introduce a friend scheme.
- Help with childcare cost (TC apply)
- Entitled under Marie Curie Blue Light Card
- Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
- Life assurance - for all employees
- RGN level 1 registration
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of palliative care and the needs of patients with complex symptoms as well as at end of life.
- Forward thinking with excellent communication skills
- Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Continuous development and access to industry leading training. Marie Curie operates a bursary scheme supporting nurses to access academic qualifications. Nurses can apply twice a year for funding to support between 50% - 100% of external qualification costs (such as Post Grad Diplomas, BSCs, PhDs etc). We also provide a comprehensive leadership & management prospectus including the Nightingale Challenge - our annual programme designed to provide Nurses, Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals with access to leadership and development training.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Working
- Annual Leave aligned to NHS (subject to eligibility, which must be most recent continuous service immediately prior to joining MC with no breaks of service)
- Generous enhancements
- 30% x your basic salary per hour paid for Saturdays and weekday night duty.
- 60% x your basic salary per hour paid for Sundays and Bank Holidays
Please click here for the full Job Description
Being a Nurse at Marie Curie is incredibly rewarding on so many levels. For starters, we offer you high staffing ratios, which means less time on paperwork and more time with patients. As a Marie Curie Nurse, you will provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group in a palliative care setting helping people to live their final days with dignity.
You'll be part of a supportive team that truly cares about you and your development. Using a patient-centred approach and evidenced based practice, assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and co-ordinate care from admission to discharge. You will be expected to administer medication and treatment as prescribed in accordance with the NMC's and the Charity's policies and guidelines. You will also provide emotional, psychological and spiritual support for patients and carers.
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory Enhanced criminal record check.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.
