Are you an enthusiastic Registered Nurse with significant community and management experience? Are you passionate about palliative end of life care?
If so this is a brand new opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join Sue Ryder and play a key role in the leadership and ongoing development of our community services. You'll contribute to the expansion of our community services to ensure that expert multi-disciplinary palliative care can reach people in their own homes in and around Gloucestershire.
As our experienced practitioner you'll create an environment of continuous quality improvement. Not only will you develop clinical practice and regularly review standards against the CQC agenda, you'll lead our teams and manage referral pathways whilst ensuring the provision of service is efficient and responsive.
About Us:
Leckhampton Court is a Sue Ryder hospice, based in Gloucestershire. We’re here for people aged 18 and over living with conditions like cancer, heart failure and lung disease. It provides the only specialist hospice care inpatient unit in the county of Gloucestershire. We offer a range of support, from inpatient care in our 16-bed hospice, set in the foot of the Cotswold Hills and surrounded by beautiful countryside, to day services and Hospice at Home which helps people stay at home longer and offers respite to carers.
We’re here for dying people, their family and friends. Our specialist teams give the care and support needed to ease physical and emotional pain at what can be a very frightening time, whether at home or in our hospices. Our focus is on quality of life – giving every person the opportunity to spend the time they have left in the way they choose. We can’t change the outcome, but we can change the journey.
Employee Benefits:
NHS pension continuation or Sue Ryder company pension scheme
Life assurance
NHS holiday honored or 25 days holiday - rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
Option to buy and sell up to five days holiday
Competitive enhanced pay for nights, weekends and public holidays *
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Enhanced sick pay
Paid qualifications
Paid mileage
Corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services
Relocation allowance
Staff discount of 15% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org
Cash referral bonus scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Online Wellbeing Centre
Free Will writing service
Staff finance loans
Free onsite parking
Free uniform
Carers leave policy
Subsidised onsite meals and drinks
Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities
About You:
Our ideal Community Service Manager will have a strategic outlook, will be forward thinking, dynamic, flexible and hardworking and will enjoy working closely within our team here at Leckhampton Court Hospice and our other stakeholders across the Sue Ryder network. You'll also need:
- To be a Registered Nurse at AfC Band 7 or above with significant experience in the field of Palliative Care
- Excellent clinical leadership and management skills/experience
- Experience of service development and working with a range of stakeholders
- A degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (or being working towards gaining one)
- Evidence of continual professional development
- A full, valid driving licence and have access to your own vehicle
To learn more about joining this amazing team in this brand new role please apply now online or contact Leckhampton Court hospice directly.