Senior Adult Nurse

Are you an experienced Adults Nurse ready to share your knowledge in the rewarding world of Palliative Care? Join Keech Hospice as a Senior Adults Nurse and explore how your clinical expertise supports the needs of patients and those closest to them. As a Keech Senior Adults Nurse you will prioritise excellence in care while we nurture your growth in the field of palliative care. Your experience of caring for patients with a palliative diagnosis, perhaps even drawing from your own personal experiences, equips you with transferable and invaluable skills for this role. We seek dedicated nurses who share the vision, value and standards that Keech promotes and our desire to drive continuous service development, making a difference when it matters the most to those that need our support and care.,

• Supervise and participate in the delivery of holistic patient centred care
• Manage and prioritise own workload, ensuring continuity of service and crisis intervention.
• Establish effective communication processes with patients, families, colleagues, and the broader multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies.
• Undertake patient assessments in the hospice, their homes or place of care.
• Support and coach staff to provide high-quality palliative and end-of-life care, including pre bereavement support.
• Provide professional and managerial leadership, supporting colleagues as and when required.
• Take a lead role in planning discharges from the hospice, ensuring a smooth transition of patient and family care and support., We are committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of the individuals we serve and will take appropriate measures to safeguard them.
  
  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.
  
  £36,001 to £42,794 a year Continuity of your NHS pension scheme