Staff Nurse - Supportive Care at Home

35 hrs per week (annualised hours)

Are you passionate about Palliative & End-of-life care ensuring people have a choice about where they wish to spend their last weeks & days of life?

Do you want to further develop your skills & have the time to care for people at home on a one to one basis, supporting overnight in the community? If so we would be delighted to hear from you.

We are looking to recruit a Staff Nurse into our dedicated Supportive Care at Home Team, part of the Palliative Care team for South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

The team is unique in its delivery of palliative & end of life care in Barnsley & works alongside other SWYPFT community services & health & social care partners.

We will offer full support & training for the right candidate, this is an excellent opportunity for those Staff Nurses with palliative care experience who have a desire to work in specialist palliative care, full support will be given to the right candidate so that they flourish in this role.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form., You will work alongside the Supportive Care at Home Care coordinator using your experience & knowledge to take part in assessment, planning of care, intervention & communications with other professionals.

As part of the role & under the direction of service coordinator you will assist in coordinating the service (on a rota basis) & provide overnight support visits with patients & families in their own homes, you will also work weekends & bank holidays.

Successful candidates will maintain high quality care in the community as part of the wider integrated care team.

Enthusiasm & ability to use your own initiative are essential, along with good written & verbal communication skills & ability to manage your time effectively.

You will work both as part of a team & a lone worker, on a night time you will have access to senior members of Urgent care response team for support & advice along with the use of a vehicle to undertake any necessary travel in connection with the duties of the post.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.