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    Senior Staff Nurse- Hospice - London, United Kingdom - The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth

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    Job summary

    We are looking for a new Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse to join our Charity funded Inpatient Hospice. The Hospice consists of an 15 bedded in patient unit, a Day Centre and a community team maintaining highest standards of palliative care with in multidisciplinary environment. Services are provided for people with cancer, HIV and other life threatening illnesses and for their significant others.

    Main duties of the job

    Patient are admitted to the Hospice Specialist Palliative care In-Patient Unit for assessment, symptom control, terminal care, rehabilitation, respite care and medical interventions from a wide catchment area of the following CCGs primary care trusts of Westminster, Brent, Camden, Islington.

    This role would ideally suit an experienced Palliative Care Nurse from either a Hospice or Hospital Background. You will have previously mentored staff and trained junior members of the team

    About us

    Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

  • To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team and ensure the provision of high quality nursing care.
  • To maintain continuous high standards of skilled nursing care and professional practice through evidence based practice.
  • To promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence based practice
  • To act as a role model and expert clinical practitioner. To supervise and teach both trained staff, health care assistants and student nurses.
  • To assist in the safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources. To recognise the need for personal flexibility within the unit to ensure all aspects of the services are managed safely and effectively.
  • Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Experience at Band 5 or above in specialist palliative care or oncology
  • Demonstrable practice that is evidence based and up to date
  • Experience of working with teams, motivating and empowering them to deliver excellent standards of patient care
  • Experience of identifying and dealing with risks encountered within own practice.
  • Experience of supporting junior / less experienced staff to improve standards of patient care.
  • Desirable

  • Able to supports less experienced / junior staff to respond to feedback in positive manner setting objectives as required.
  • Able to use professional knowledge and experience to influence decision making processes in order to improve outcomes for patients and staff.
  • Able to use assertive communication skills to achieve collaborative solutions to challenging situations
  • Able to conduct audits in objective and efficient manner.

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