Registered Nurse (Hospice / Palliative Care)
Posted 3 days 5 hours ago by NHS
£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Yorkshire, Harrogate, United Kingdom, HG1 1
Job Description
Registered Nurse (Hospice / Palliative Care) Registered Nurse (Hospice/ Palliative Care)
Permanent Contracts
Hours:Part-time and full-time hours available, 22.5 - 37.5 hours per week (shiftsinclude nights and weekends)
Salary: £41,179.14 per annum FTE, rising to £42,371.14 per annum FTE (split of 55% of shifts in social hours/45% unsocial)
Closing date: Friday13th February 2026 (the advert may close early if we receive asufficient number of suitable applications)
Are you a caring andcompassionate nurse who wants to make a meaningful difference during one oflifes most sensitive times? Would you like to join an organisation where youcan grow, feel supported and truly make an impact every day?
Werelooking for experienced Registered Nurses to join incredible team at SaintMichaels Hospice in Harrogate.
About us
Our family of services - Herriot HospiceHomecare, Just B and Saint Michaels Hospice - provide vital support topeople when they need it most. Our vision is of a community where everyone getsthe care they need, want and deserve, and you can help make that a reality.
We are an independent charity powered bylocal communities. Every day, we help to improve quality of life for peopleliving with terminal illness, bereavement and mental health concerns, becauseour belief is that no one should suffer. Our incredible teams work together tomake this happen.
Main duties of the job Your role as a Hospice Nurse
At the heart of our patient-centred approach is a simple belief that every moment counts. Our mission is to deliver exceptional, personalised care that brings comfort, dignity, and support to our patients and those who love them.
As a Hospice Nurse, youll lead by example in delivering high-quality, holistic care within our welcoming inpatient unit. Youll provide vital support not just to patients, but to families and colleagues helping to create an environment of trust, peace, and compassion and work in a close-knit team where kindness, empathy, and clinical expertise truly matter.
This Hospice Nurse role is based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and is commutable from areas including Ripon, Leeds and York.
In this role, youll:
We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do
We are caring and compassionate
We are personal and supportive in our approach
We are responsive
We are fair
We are professional
We work collaboratively
We are accountable
Living out our values
Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes atsaintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework
We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities.
We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services, please see our safeguarding statement on our website:
If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing .
We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.
Job responsibilities Registered Nurse (Hospice/ Palliative Care)
Job Purpose
Plan and deliver patient-centred care, working closely with patients and their families.
Once trained, act as the shift coordinator, overseeing high-quality team nursing care and coordinating wider team care that puts patients' at the heart of what we do.
Act as the key worker for a designated caseload, showing nursing leadership by providing care as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Intervention
1. Places quality at the centre of care by providing evidence-based, individualised, and personalised support through holistic needs assessment, risk assessments, care planning, and evaluation of all care interventions. Follows agreed care and support plans and actively integrates theory and practice into daily work.
2. Acts as a Key Worker for a clinical caseload, working proactively to manage care and provide easy access to ongoing support. Assesses patients' information needs and provides relevant information through various means. Helps patients understand and evaluate complex information, enabling them to make informed decisions about their future.
3. Fosters self-management by assessing patients' ability to self-manage, providing education, and guiding those who require support in managing their condition.
4. Demonstrates excellent communication skills and expertise in hospice care, including the ability to manage emotional distress for patients and their loved ones when needed.
5. Provides clinical expertise, advice, and support across service boundaries, referring to other professionals and signposting to relevant agencies as necessary.
6. Contributes to nursing-led service development, promoting excellence in care.
7. Promotes clinical excellence through innovation, audit, evaluation, and research.
8. Maintains accurate patient records.
Leadership and people management:
1. Effectively allocates work and maintains responsibility for delegated tasks.
2. Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high-quality, person-centred care and using a co-creating care approach with patients and their families affected by life-limiting illnesses.
3. Contributes to the education and training of other healthcare professionals involved in patient care.
4. Supports the development and promotion of the hospice, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care.
5. Encourages patient and community involvement within the practice setting.
6. Collects accurate and comprehensive data to provide evidence of activity, outcomes, and quality.
7. Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.
8. Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as a patient advocate and representing nursing views.
9. Ensures that patients and their families are aware of the full range of resources and services available through the hospice.
10. Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation to handle difficult or challenging situations.
11. Supports the development of patient-focused education, including training to manage treatment side effects effectively.
12. Acts as a mentor or preceptor, guiding new staff members and students.
1. Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
2. Works across professional boundaries, employing creative reasoning, positivity and problem-solving.
3. Supports and manages change.
Professional Development
1. Acquires and applies clinical, technical, and evaluation skills through a broad and in-depth knowledge base.
2. Utilises clinical expertise, clinical judgement, creative thinking, and experience to enhance patient care, seeking support from others when necessary.
3. Assesses nursing practice and proposes improvements as required, drawing on patient experiences to drive change.
4. Takes personal responsibility for ongoing learning and development through reflective practice, self-appraisal, and actively engages with the learning and development opportunities provided by the hospice.
Special Features of the job
Working autonomously within a team, you'll deliver patient-centred and holistic care. Our service operates 24/7, 365 days a year, with clinical roles rostered to ensure round-the-clock coverage. Although rosters are planned in advance, there may be times when you'll need to adjust your scheduled rota at short notice. If this is the case, we can make individual arrangements, provided they align with our Flexible Working Policy and are approved by the Director responsible for the service.
In necessary circumstances, we may need to make last-minute changes to shifts to maintain high-quality, safe patient care. We'd initially ask for your cooperation, only resorting to compulsory changes if necessary.
Personal Development
We warmly encourage all staff and volunteers at the Hospice to play an active role in identifying and fulfilling their development needs related to their jobs. We aim to support you through various processes, such as regular one-on-one meetings with your Line Managers or senior colleagues, plus annual appraisal and development reviews.
Every employee benefits from an annual appraisal, and to make the most of this opportunity . click apply for full job details
Permanent Contracts
Hours:Part-time and full-time hours available, 22.5 - 37.5 hours per week (shiftsinclude nights and weekends)
Salary: £41,179.14 per annum FTE, rising to £42,371.14 per annum FTE (split of 55% of shifts in social hours/45% unsocial)
Closing date: Friday13th February 2026 (the advert may close early if we receive asufficient number of suitable applications)
Are you a caring andcompassionate nurse who wants to make a meaningful difference during one oflifes most sensitive times? Would you like to join an organisation where youcan grow, feel supported and truly make an impact every day?
Werelooking for experienced Registered Nurses to join incredible team at SaintMichaels Hospice in Harrogate.
About us
Our family of services - Herriot HospiceHomecare, Just B and Saint Michaels Hospice - provide vital support topeople when they need it most. Our vision is of a community where everyone getsthe care they need, want and deserve, and you can help make that a reality.
We are an independent charity powered bylocal communities. Every day, we help to improve quality of life for peopleliving with terminal illness, bereavement and mental health concerns, becauseour belief is that no one should suffer. Our incredible teams work together tomake this happen.
Main duties of the job Your role as a Hospice Nurse
At the heart of our patient-centred approach is a simple belief that every moment counts. Our mission is to deliver exceptional, personalised care that brings comfort, dignity, and support to our patients and those who love them.
As a Hospice Nurse, youll lead by example in delivering high-quality, holistic care within our welcoming inpatient unit. Youll provide vital support not just to patients, but to families and colleagues helping to create an environment of trust, peace, and compassion and work in a close-knit team where kindness, empathy, and clinical expertise truly matter.
This Hospice Nurse role is based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and is commutable from areas including Ripon, Leeds and York.
In this role, youll:
- Develop tailored care plans, administer medication and manage symptoms to ensure comfort
- Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team and manage patient admissions and discharges
- Provide emotional support for patients and families, offering compassionate care
We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do
We are caring and compassionate
We are personal and supportive in our approach
We are responsive
We are fair
We are professional
We work collaboratively
We are accountable
Living out our values
Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes atsaintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework
We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities.
We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services, please see our safeguarding statement on our website:
If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing .
We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.
Job responsibilities Registered Nurse (Hospice/ Palliative Care)
Job Purpose
Plan and deliver patient-centred care, working closely with patients and their families.
Once trained, act as the shift coordinator, overseeing high-quality team nursing care and coordinating wider team care that puts patients' at the heart of what we do.
Act as the key worker for a designated caseload, showing nursing leadership by providing care as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Intervention
1. Places quality at the centre of care by providing evidence-based, individualised, and personalised support through holistic needs assessment, risk assessments, care planning, and evaluation of all care interventions. Follows agreed care and support plans and actively integrates theory and practice into daily work.
2. Acts as a Key Worker for a clinical caseload, working proactively to manage care and provide easy access to ongoing support. Assesses patients' information needs and provides relevant information through various means. Helps patients understand and evaluate complex information, enabling them to make informed decisions about their future.
3. Fosters self-management by assessing patients' ability to self-manage, providing education, and guiding those who require support in managing their condition.
4. Demonstrates excellent communication skills and expertise in hospice care, including the ability to manage emotional distress for patients and their loved ones when needed.
5. Provides clinical expertise, advice, and support across service boundaries, referring to other professionals and signposting to relevant agencies as necessary.
6. Contributes to nursing-led service development, promoting excellence in care.
7. Promotes clinical excellence through innovation, audit, evaluation, and research.
8. Maintains accurate patient records.
Leadership and people management:
1. Effectively allocates work and maintains responsibility for delegated tasks.
2. Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high-quality, person-centred care and using a co-creating care approach with patients and their families affected by life-limiting illnesses.
3. Contributes to the education and training of other healthcare professionals involved in patient care.
4. Supports the development and promotion of the hospice, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care.
5. Encourages patient and community involvement within the practice setting.
6. Collects accurate and comprehensive data to provide evidence of activity, outcomes, and quality.
7. Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.
8. Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as a patient advocate and representing nursing views.
9. Ensures that patients and their families are aware of the full range of resources and services available through the hospice.
10. Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation to handle difficult or challenging situations.
11. Supports the development of patient-focused education, including training to manage treatment side effects effectively.
12. Acts as a mentor or preceptor, guiding new staff members and students.
1. Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
2. Works across professional boundaries, employing creative reasoning, positivity and problem-solving.
3. Supports and manages change.
Professional Development
1. Acquires and applies clinical, technical, and evaluation skills through a broad and in-depth knowledge base.
2. Utilises clinical expertise, clinical judgement, creative thinking, and experience to enhance patient care, seeking support from others when necessary.
3. Assesses nursing practice and proposes improvements as required, drawing on patient experiences to drive change.
4. Takes personal responsibility for ongoing learning and development through reflective practice, self-appraisal, and actively engages with the learning and development opportunities provided by the hospice.
Special Features of the job
Working autonomously within a team, you'll deliver patient-centred and holistic care. Our service operates 24/7, 365 days a year, with clinical roles rostered to ensure round-the-clock coverage. Although rosters are planned in advance, there may be times when you'll need to adjust your scheduled rota at short notice. If this is the case, we can make individual arrangements, provided they align with our Flexible Working Policy and are approved by the Director responsible for the service.
In necessary circumstances, we may need to make last-minute changes to shifts to maintain high-quality, safe patient care. We'd initially ask for your cooperation, only resorting to compulsory changes if necessary.
Personal Development
We warmly encourage all staff and volunteers at the Hospice to play an active role in identifying and fulfilling their development needs related to their jobs. We aim to support you through various processes, such as regular one-on-one meetings with your Line Managers or senior colleagues, plus annual appraisal and development reviews.
Every employee benefits from an annual appraisal, and to make the most of this opportunity . click apply for full job details