Inpatient Unit Manager
| Posting date: | 24 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Salary depending on experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2026 |
| Location: | Gillison Close, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 1QU |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Garden House Hospice Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We are looking for an exceptional and dedicated professional leader to join our Inpatient Unit. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate professional to lead, inspire, and shape a team of Registered Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, delivering outstanding care to patients and their families.
As a key leader within our service you will bring extensive post registration experience, including a previous leadership/ management role in Palliative or a related Community setting, with knowledge of hospice philosophy and the bereavement process.
You will combine excellent clinical expertise with confident leadership skills, ensuring the safe and effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of high standards of patient care. In addition, you will inspire, lead and manage the Inpatient Unit team, encouraging multi-disciplinary teamworking and providing supervision, support and facilitating staff professional development and learning.
What does the job involve?
You will play a pivotal role in leading the delivery of safe, high-quality, and compassionate care. You will provide both clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the service runs effectively while supporting patients, families, and staff.
- Responsible for patient safety for those referred and receiving care
- Manage budgets and resources effectively
- Inspire, lead and manage the IPU team
- Be committed to the overall strategies of the hospice and use these to inform the work plan for the IPU
- Implement national and local guidance, legal frameworks and initiatives, new policies, standards and best practice into clinical practice as agreed and required.
- To be responsible for the management of the 24-hour advice line
- To support with the coordination of referrals within the MDT
- Handle safeguarding, incident management and risk mitigation
What We’re Looking For
- A valid NMC registration and the right to work in the UK (no visa sponsorship available)
- First level Registered Nurse.
- Degree or Masters in leadership or practice knowledge gained in a specialist palliative care setting/related Community setting.
- Extensive post-registration experience, including leadership/management within a palliative care or related community setting
- Experience in specialist palliative and end-of-life care, with a strong understanding of hospice philosophy and the bereavement process
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and support multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in supervision, staff development, and working collaboratively across services, including with volunteers
- Knowledge of clinical governance, patient safety frameworks, and current legislation (e.g. safeguarding, MCA, best interests)
- Experience in the safe management of medicines, including controlled drugs
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
- Experience of budget and resource management
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a calm, emotionally intelligent, and non-judgemental approach
- A commitment to continuous professional development
You will also be:
- A positive role model and supportive leader
- A flexible and adaptable team player
- Confident using IT systems (including electronic patient records such as SystmOne, email, and Microsoft Office)
A full Job Description & Person Specification is available on our company website.
As a key leader within our service you will bring extensive post registration experience, including a previous leadership/ management role in Palliative or a related Community setting, with knowledge of hospice philosophy and the bereavement process.
You will combine excellent clinical expertise with confident leadership skills, ensuring the safe and effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of high standards of patient care. In addition, you will inspire, lead and manage the Inpatient Unit team, encouraging multi-disciplinary teamworking and providing supervision, support and facilitating staff professional development and learning.
What does the job involve?
You will play a pivotal role in leading the delivery of safe, high-quality, and compassionate care. You will provide both clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the service runs effectively while supporting patients, families, and staff.
- Responsible for patient safety for those referred and receiving care
- Manage budgets and resources effectively
- Inspire, lead and manage the IPU team
- Be committed to the overall strategies of the hospice and use these to inform the work plan for the IPU
- Implement national and local guidance, legal frameworks and initiatives, new policies, standards and best practice into clinical practice as agreed and required.
- To be responsible for the management of the 24-hour advice line
- To support with the coordination of referrals within the MDT
- Handle safeguarding, incident management and risk mitigation
What We’re Looking For
- A valid NMC registration and the right to work in the UK (no visa sponsorship available)
- First level Registered Nurse.
- Degree or Masters in leadership or practice knowledge gained in a specialist palliative care setting/related Community setting.
- Extensive post-registration experience, including leadership/management within a palliative care or related community setting
- Experience in specialist palliative and end-of-life care, with a strong understanding of hospice philosophy and the bereavement process
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and support multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in supervision, staff development, and working collaboratively across services, including with volunteers
- Knowledge of clinical governance, patient safety frameworks, and current legislation (e.g. safeguarding, MCA, best interests)
- Experience in the safe management of medicines, including controlled drugs
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
- Experience of budget and resource management
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a calm, emotionally intelligent, and non-judgemental approach
- A commitment to continuous professional development
You will also be:
- A positive role model and supportive leader
- A flexible and adaptable team player
- Confident using IT systems (including electronic patient records such as SystmOne, email, and Microsoft Office)
A full Job Description & Person Specification is available on our company website.