Community Palliative Response Senior Nurse - Overnight Service (NW Herts)

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The post holder will be required to work across shifts covering 9:15pm - 7:15am as part of an extended community team working in the patients' home environment including, as required, in care homes. Although based in the community, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other Rennie Grove Peace care settings in order to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care. You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas: Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.

• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own homes to provide palliative and end of life care.
• To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients' ever-changing needs.
• To be responsible for the coordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others' safety by adhering to the lone worker policy and procedure requirements.
If your application is successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.