Nurse Associate

Keech Hospice is seeking a dedicated Nursing Associate to join our multidisciplinary team, supporting our care services across inpatient/outpatient units and community care settings. As a Nursing Associate based primarily in the community, you will play a vital role in offering professional and compassionate healthcare support to patients and their families navigating the challenges of illness progression and end-of-life care. This role offers 30-37.5 flexible rota-based hours, 8.30am to 10pm on weekdays and weekends and Bank Holidays, 9am to 9pm.,

• Act as a role model in maintaining Keech Hospices values and always delivering exceptional care.
• Support the development and mentorship of support workers, coaching them in clinical competencies and contributing to their ongoing learning.
• Support with the day-to-day management of the community palliative care support worker team
• Deliver holistic care to patients, families, and service users, ensuring high standards of patient safety and wellbeing
• Provide essential clinical care within the scope of your assessed competencies
• Collaborate with the team to contribute to care planning, ensuring patients preferences and needs are integrated
• To provide emotional support, personal care and support at the end of life for patients and families
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, and team members, ensuring clear, concise information is provided
• Take lead in clinical governance, maintaining compliance with regulatory standards, and contributing to audits.
• Work flexibly across the hospices services, ensuring continuity of care and supporting service delivery improvements.
  
  Keech provide free, specialist care for Adults in Luton and South Bedfordshire, and children from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes living with a life limiting illness. Keech supports adults and children to live pain and symptom free, to spend untroubled time with their loved one, to understand whats happening to them, to stay out of hospital and to make the most of the time they have.
  
  £25,372 to £28,826 a year Continuity of your NHS pension scheme