Hospice at Home / Access Team Registered Nurses

Role description

Hospice at Home / Access Team Registered Nurses
Starting Salary:  Step1 £ 35,813 WTE (based on 37.5 hours per week) (rising to Step2 £39,736 WTE subject to satisfactory performance review) pro rata per annum + Unsocial Hours Shift Allowance + Pension + Benefits
Hospice Band: 5
Full or Part time available

We have opportunities for caring and compassionate registered nurses to join our Hospice at Home / Access Team Service. This is a rotational post, required to work across all three teams as required. The first year will be to work within our Virtual Ward Hospice Team for a period of one year, and laterally across the Hospice at Home team, our Access Team.

You’ll be a Registered Nurse with excellent communication skills and an interest in palliative care, working within the community.

The Registered Nurse will be responsible for ongoing holistic assessment and planning of care to meet the patients and carers practical, psychological, spiritual and social needs.  The post at times may require you to support Inpatient Unit with sickness absence cover.

A valid driving licence and use of a car is essential for this post.  Successful candidates will benefit from our comprehensive training and education programme.

For an informal discussion, please contact Mandy Murray / Helen Gray on 0131 551 1381

To apply please download the Application Form and Job Description below.

EMPLOYER: St Columba's Hospice Care is an independent Scottish Charity, SC003634, regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).

ST COLUMBA'S SERVICE RELATED BENEFITS: Continuous employment at St Columba's counts towards the calculation of entitlement for all St Columba's service related benefits including annual leave allowance, occupational sick pay, maternity/paternity leave & pay etc.

An independent Scottish charity, St Columba's Hospice offers competitive rates of pay, generous pension contributions, annual leave allowance and occupational sick pay entitlements that increase with length of service at St Columba's Hospice, and a supportive and rewarding place to work, with our own on-site education and research team - we're an Investor in People organisation! For a full summary of terms and conditions of employment please refer to the vacancy pack for the role you are interested in.

We want to ensure that as much of our resources as possible go towards supporting people with a terminal illness and therefore we do not normally contact unsuccessful applicants individually.  If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.  However, we would encourage you to apply for other suitable roles.  Thank you for your interest in this vacancy and in working for St. Columba’s Hospice.

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