Nurse Specialist (Sidmouth Hospice at Home)
- Employer
- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Sidmouth
- Salary
- £35,392 to £42,618 a year
- Closing date
- 9 Oct 2023
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You will be working as a Nurse Specialist with the Sidmouth Hospice at Home team, alongside Royal Devon and Hospice at Home services. As a Nurse Specialist you will be proving family support and symptom management to enable patients with a life-limiting illness to be cared for at home.
You will be supported and encouraged by a happy and professional team to share knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).
Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
The Hospice at Home service is managed by the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and funded by the Sidmouth Hospice at Home charity. The Sid Valley Integrated Model for Specialist Palliative Care integrates the available services within the community into a one-team approach to provide the best possible care for all patients who are diagnosed by their GP as palliative, regardless of diagnosis or complexity, guided by the individual needs and wishes of the patient and their carer.
The service is part of community care provision in Sidmouth for patients registered with a Sidmouth GP. You will need to have worked within the palliative care field. Community experience is desirable but not essential. You will have opportunity to learn and gain experience through clinical reflective practice and continued professional development.
You will be joining a professional, specialist palliative care team, who work alongside our health and social care colleagues both in the community and the acute care sectors.
The service provides specialist palliative care 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with shifts covering 08.00-16.00, 10.00-18.00 and 12.00-20.00. After 20.00 an RGN is on-call to respond to our patients who need advice or a visit overnight, thus providing specialist end of life care and carer support 24/7 and avoiding unnecessary and unwanted hospital admissions.
We will also make any reasonable adjustments you require to our selection process. Please let us know what you need.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week. The service provides specialist palliative care 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with shifts covering 08.00-16.00, 10.00-18.00 and 12.00-20.00. After 20.00 an RGN is on-call to respond to our patients who need advice or a visit overnight, thus providing specialist end of life care and carer support 24/7 and avoiding unnecessary and unwanted hospital admissions.
Interview Date: Wednesday 11th October 2023
For further information please contact: Mary Ashby, Integrated Palliative Care Nurse Specialist Team Leader telephone: 07729 123709/ 01395 578706, email: mary.ashby@nhs.net
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.
Preference will be given to staff with Priority and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers.
You will also have access to other benefits including:
National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
Car lease schemes.
The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Sidmouth Hospice At Home
Church Street
Sidford
Sidmouth
Devon
EX10 9RL
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
185-1319-5303
You will be supported and encouraged by a happy and professional team to share knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).
Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
The Hospice at Home service is managed by the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and funded by the Sidmouth Hospice at Home charity. The Sid Valley Integrated Model for Specialist Palliative Care integrates the available services within the community into a one-team approach to provide the best possible care for all patients who are diagnosed by their GP as palliative, regardless of diagnosis or complexity, guided by the individual needs and wishes of the patient and their carer.
The service is part of community care provision in Sidmouth for patients registered with a Sidmouth GP. You will need to have worked within the palliative care field. Community experience is desirable but not essential. You will have opportunity to learn and gain experience through clinical reflective practice and continued professional development.
You will be joining a professional, specialist palliative care team, who work alongside our health and social care colleagues both in the community and the acute care sectors.
The service provides specialist palliative care 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with shifts covering 08.00-16.00, 10.00-18.00 and 12.00-20.00. After 20.00 an RGN is on-call to respond to our patients who need advice or a visit overnight, thus providing specialist end of life care and carer support 24/7 and avoiding unnecessary and unwanted hospital admissions.
We will also make any reasonable adjustments you require to our selection process. Please let us know what you need.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week. The service provides specialist palliative care 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with shifts covering 08.00-16.00, 10.00-18.00 and 12.00-20.00. After 20.00 an RGN is on-call to respond to our patients who need advice or a visit overnight, thus providing specialist end of life care and carer support 24/7 and avoiding unnecessary and unwanted hospital admissions.
Interview Date: Wednesday 11th October 2023
For further information please contact: Mary Ashby, Integrated Palliative Care Nurse Specialist Team Leader telephone: 07729 123709/ 01395 578706, email: mary.ashby@nhs.net
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.
Preference will be given to staff with Priority and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers.
You will also have access to other benefits including:
National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
Car lease schemes.
The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Sidmouth Hospice At Home
Church Street
Sidford
Sidmouth
Devon
EX10 9RL
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
185-1319-5303
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