Registered Nurse (Community)
| Posting date: | 22 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £36,872 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2025 |
| Location: | West Sussex, PO19 1RQ |
| Company: | St Barnabas Hospices |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 250 |
Summary
About the role
This role supports the provision of palliative care to children, young people and families living with a life limited condition in their homes across West Sussex and South East Hampshire. Palliative care includes the provision of respite breaks, enabling children opportunities to have fun and make memories ‘adding life to shortened years. You will provide high quality, holistic, family centred and compassionate care whilst meeting the complex clinical needs of the children in our care. Care can be provided in CYP’s homes, fun days out in the community or bringing the CYP to the hospice for community day care. The hospice delivers end of life care to a small number of children, working with specialist teams providing training and advice to manage children’s symptoms effectively.
Essential criteria
Education and Qualitifications
- RNC or RN Adult or RN LD registration
- 1 year post qualification
Experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with children, families and professionals
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to present information written and orally in a clear and logical manner.
- Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding procedures.
- Time management and organisational skills
- Competent IT skills
- Willingness to travel across the county and visits to the hospice in Arundel
- Willingness to drive Chestnut Tree House vehicles and transport CYP
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Teaching and mentorship qualification
- IV competency
- Experience of working with CYP with complex needs.
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies
- Experience of working in a palliative care setting
- Experience of working in a community setting
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- On-site education support and study leave opportunities
- Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
- Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
- Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in Service
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.