Salary: £17.89 per hour (Equivalent to AfC Band 5)
Work Pattern: BANK
Location: Esher, Surrey
Application Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
Interview Date: 2025-Jun-23 00:00
Job Profile: Job Profile document
Job Summary
About us:
Princess Alice Hospice is one of the top ten adult hospices in the UK, providing specialist palliative care and support to a community of more than a million people living in Surrey, South West London, and Middlesex.
About our Night Response Team:
The Night Response Team (NR) provides specialist on-call palliative nursing care between 22:00 and 08:00, 7 days a week, for palliative care patients known to Princess Alice Hospice.
The team also offers nursing care and assistance to palliative and general patients referred from district nursing services, OOH’s service (111), local ambulance services SECAMB and LAS, Mole Valley Telecare, and Tunstall Community Alarm services. This includes palliative patients not known to PAH. Night Response visits patients in their homes and in care and residential homes.
A Night Response shift is usually covered by two staff members per night, typically one RN and one SHCA, occasionally two RNs.
Based in an office on the inpatient unit at the Hospice, we receive calls, provide information, support, and advice to patients, families, and healthcare professionals, and visit patients as needed throughout the night.
The Night Response Service brings the skills and expertise of our highly trained team directly into patients' homes, enabling patients to remain at home and reducing hospital admissions.
About the role:
We seek an experienced, proactive, dynamic, and versatile Staff Nurse with excellent interpersonal, communication, and telephone triage skills to join our Night Response Team.
Experience caring for terminally ill patients is essential. You should be able to work autonomously and have a strong understanding of community care and be involved in service auditing.
A full driving license with a maximum of 6 points for the use of the hospice vehicle (automatic) is required.
About you:
You will be motivated, flexible, and adaptable in providing community care. Excellent communication skills and the ability to assess the needs of patients, families, and carers are essential.
If you are enthusiastic, personable, share our values, and care about making a difference in the last years of someone's life, we look forward to your application!
Benefits include:
* Educational and professional development opportunities (with an on-site Education Team)
* Monthly group reflections via Schwartz Rounds sessions
* Free on-site parking
* Tranquil hospice grounds
* Regular clinical supervision with protected time
* Subsidised meals at our on-site restaurant
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Access to the Blue Light Card discount scheme
* Group Pension Scheme
* In-house laundry and excellent changing facilities (showers, towels, hairdryers)
* Wellbeing programme supporting healthy living at home and at work
For an informal discussion, contact Rebecca Allkins, Specialist Nurse Night Response Deputy Team Lead, at rebeccaallkins@pah.org.uk.
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