Specialist Nurse

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for a change? Would you like to work for a local charity who provide free end of life care? Do you want to work a nine to five with minimum on call responsibilities?

If the answer is yest to all of the above, then this role could be for you!

Hooray are proud to be supporting a local Hospice to assist in in the recruitment for a Specialist Nurse to join their team on a full or part-time permanent basis.

Hours
37.5 or 22.5 hours per week Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Plus a requirement to be on call 1 day a week 5pm-10pm/7am-8:30am and 1 in 4 weekends)

Benefits
- Annual Salary GBP39,689 FTE (GBP20.35 per hour basic rate, plus increased hourly rate for Bank Holidays and weekends)
- Pension scheme or continue the NHS Superannuation pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
As a Specialist Nurse, you will:
- Coordinate the day-to-day activities of the Hospice at Home Service.
- Accepting and processing referrals, ensuring appropriate and timely services are delivered.
- Providing leadership, support and guidance to admin, care and external agency workers.
- Recruitment, induction, and probation of new HCA'a and RN's and conducting performance reviews.
- Support the mentoring process for new staff.
- Liaise with GP's, external nurses, hospital teams, and other external agencies to provide the highest level of care.
- Provide clinical advice and support in the planning and booking of care.
- Contribute to the creation of policies, guidelines and protocols and support the governance structures.

To be successful as a Specialist Nurse, you will need:
- Registered Nurse with Nursing or Midwifery Council with experience in relevant speciality.
- Knowledge of patient services in palliative care.
- Proven experience within health/social care environment and recent experience of working within a community setting.
- Line management experience and in coaching and mentoring.
- Understanding of clinical governance.
- Experience in use of SystmOne
- Experience of writing briefing notes and reports.
- Desirable: Evidence of clinical specialist qualification in palliative care or oncology.
If you are interested and have the relevant experience, please apply with an up-to-date copy of your CV and we promise to get back to you. As champions of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, Hooray commit to reviewing every application we receive with complete fairness and equality.

- Hooray is acting as an agency on behalf of the client for this position.
- Our purpose as a business is to pioneer ethical recruitment for a better working world.
- Hooray is proud to be a corporate member of the REC, the recruitment industry's leading professional body.
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