Registered Nurse - Community and Hospice Line

Registered Nurse - Community and Hospice Line

We're looking for two calm, compassionate registered nurses with excellent communication skills to join our community nursing and hospice line team - a collaborative telephone support service for people approaching the end of life and their families.

Main duties of the job

• Emotional support for anxious or distressed families
• Coordinating community responses
• Recording changes in condition
• Taking calls when a death has occurred
• Visiting a patient in their own home, carrying out initial assessments and follow up reviews

For Hospices Line - an innovative collaboration between St Wilfrids and St Michaels hospices - you will use strong listening skills, structured questioning and clear documentation to ensure callers receive safe, compassionate support.

About us

St Wilfrids Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an outstanding provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.

We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.

We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+, non binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• A calm, confident communicator
• Compassionate and patient
• Recent experience in a healthcare setting
• Able to make safe decisions and escalate appropriately
• Comfortable working independently in a community setting
• Reliable, resilient and confident using electronic systems
• Willing to attend daytime training and work flexibly

Why Join Us?

• Make a real difference to peoples experience of end of life care
• Supportive team and structured induction
• Ongoing development
• Regular community shifts to maintain clinical skills

Interested?

If you want a meaningful role where your compassion and communication skills truly matter, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now if you are interested in providing supportive palliative care.

Benefits included

• We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Employee assistance programmes
• Additional training opportunities
• Supportive working environment
• We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including various shift patterns and part time hours
• 10% discount in the hospice Street Café

If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on or email .

If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Helen Davdison, Head of Community Nursing on .

Please note that CVs will not be accepted unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.