Registered Nurse, Inpatient Unit - Nights, Days and Bank
| Posting date: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £31,049 to £37,796 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 April 2026 |
| Location: | Eastbourne, BN22 9PZ |
| Company: | St Wilfrid's Hospice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 407 |
Summary
About us:
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.
We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.
We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.
The Role:
Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.
We are looking for Registered Nurses able to cover the following weekly shift patterns:
* 37.5 hrs Day shifts
* 36.75 hrs Night shifts - 3/4 nights alternate weeks
* Bank across both Days and Nights
The post holders will work as part of a multi-professional team providing palliative nursing care interventions for patients and their families in the Inpatient Unit. The post holders will provide the highest standard of palliative care nursing to people living with advanced, serious, life-limiting illness to support their personal priorities and preferences enabling them and their families live as well as possible and to experience compassionate end of life care.
Benefits included:
- We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
- Discounted cinema tickets
- Employee assistance programmes
- Additional training opportunities
- Supportive working environment
- We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; various shift patterns and part time hours.
If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources Team on 01323 434209 or email recruitment@stwhospice.org
If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Nikki Wilson, Head of Inpatient Unit, on 01323 434259.
Please note that CV’s will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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