Job Description
Role: Band 5 Registered Nurse
Contract: Bank Hours
Location: University Hospitals Plymouth (on-site)
Hourly rate: £15.88 per hour, plus enhancements
As a Bank Band 5 Registered Nurse with Marie Curie at University Hospitals Plymouth, you’ll provide compassionate, person-centred care to patients approaching the end of life and their loved ones within the hospital setting. You’ll deliver hands-on nursing care, conduct holistic assessments, and develop tailored care plans to meet individual needs. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you’ll support timely transfers to preferred places of care, ensure high standards of documentation and communication, and maintain dignity and respect for patients at all times.
Your role will also involve advance care planning, effective symptom management, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives. By joining this pioneering partnership, you’ll help shape the future of end-of-life care in Plymouth, making a meaningful difference during life’s most challenging moments.
Qualifications
What we’re looking for:
* Registered Nurse on NMC Register
* Experience in a palliative/End of Life care setting
* Be person-centred and compassionate when caring for the person and those important to them
* Ability to develop and evaluate care management plans alongside other healthcare professionals that meets the complex needs of the person, and those important to them
* Proven understanding of the barriers and enablers to good communication and how challenges can be overcome
* Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
* Flexibility to provide care in the area with the most need
Additional Information
What's in it for you:
* Annual leave allowance up to 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
* Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave
* Continuous Professional development
* Industry leading training programmes
* Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
* Defined contribution schemes for Pension
* Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
* Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
* Introduce a friend scheme
* Help with eye care costs
* Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
* Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
* Life assurance – for all employees
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For more information, please contact jenny.evans2@mariecurie.org.uk
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to recruitment@mariecurie.org.uk