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

Do you want to further develop your skills and have the time to care for people at home in the community? 

If so, we would be delighted to hear from you and are willing to share our expertise  

Saint Francis Hospice is a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation, delivering specialist palliative care services in Havering, Brentwood, Redbridge, and Barking & Dagenham. Our Enhanced Hospice at Home Team is a skill mix of Senior Staff Nurses and Health Care Assistants who provide hands on nursing care to people in their own home, as well as supporting those around them, to enable them to remain in their preferred place of care.

With the launch of the hospice 5- year strategy and ranked Outstanding by Care Quality Commissioners, there is not a better time to join our experienced & skilled team, providing excellent, compassionate care to individuals and their loved ones across our community.

Working collaboratively with wider community health professionals in a creative way to support individuals.

We are currently looking to recruit into our dedicated, well established and highly regarded Enhanced Hospice at Home Team, to assist us reaching more in our community and grow our workforce.

This is an excellent opportunity for those Staff Nurses with significant post registration experience who have a desire to work in specialist palliative care.

If you are an enthusiastic and passionate team player, with excellent communication skills, have keenness and confidence with the ability to work independently and have an overall compassionate flexible approach to care delivery, we would be delighted to hear from you.

It is essential that the post holder is required to have the ability to travel efficiently and effectively to people's homes across various locations within the hospice catchment area, and who can obtain their own insurance for business use.

We will in return offer attractive pay benefits including enhanced unsociable rate of pay; vehicle user and travel allowance, parking permits for the area’s we visit, as well as free onsite parking. Professional Supervision, Reflective Practice, and Annual Appraisal in addition to supporting your well-being with other staff benefits.

We encourage and offer extensive professional development opportunities linking with our own on-site Education centre.

We will provide you with a professional, supportive caring working environment with the opportunity to transfer existing NHS superannuation scheme or a private pension scheme is also available.

If you would like to discuss these job opportunities, or arrange an informal visit please contact Team Lead Simone Sims 01708 758603. 

Please note that a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Enhanced criminal record check will be undertaken as part of our pre-employment screening for the successful candidate.

If you would like to apply for the Senior Staff Nurse position please complete your application online via NHS Jobs, www.jobs.nhs.co.uk?, the job reference number is B0483-264.