Status: Permanent
Salary: Band 7
Closing Date: 29/09/2024
Interview Date: 08/10/2024
Hours: Full time/part time. Full rotation, 24/7 days a week.
St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our work is centred on an individual’s needs, which means specialist support, whenever and wherever it is needed, whether at home, in the community or at the hospice. We are well respected and praised for our responsiveness and expertise by people we serve.
We are offering an opportunity to be part of the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team influencing the holistic care of patients and carers with end of life and specialist palliative care needs. This is a chance to make a real difference to people’s lives.
Are you an enthusiastic Registered Nurse who wants to give the best possible care? Have you thought about a career in Specialist Palliative Care at St Elizabeth Hospice?
We are looking for experienced Registered Nurses to join our Community Team on a permanent basis. You will work with our Community Team providing specialist palliative care advice and support to patients in the East Suffolk area. You will work closely with your Team Leader and multi-disciplinary team to provide face to face and telephone support, for a caseload of patients and participate in answering calls from our 24/7 advice line.
In return we offer:
- personal pension plan (NHS Pensions are transferrable)
- generous holiday entitlement
- excellent training opportunities externally and from within our Education Department on site, including our Palliative Care programme
- support with revalidation and ongoing CPD
- experience in working in a 24/7 Specialist Community Team
- employee assistance programme
- free parking
- extensive induction
Click here to discover St Elizabeth Hospice and what it’s like to work with us or view the document below
Please note that we have a flexible workforce policy which means that employees will be deployed in other areas when there is the need to do so. This benefits service users and employees.
Our most recent Care Quality Commission report rated the hospice as “Outstanding”
If you would like an opportunity to find out some more about working at the hospice we recommend a discussion prior to you completing your application. Please contact one of our Community CNS Team Leaders via email DL_CommunityTeamLeaders@stelizabethhospice.org.uk
For more information please view the job description and person specification.
Only applicants selected for interview will be contacted, and invitation to interview will be sent by email.