Hospice Nurse - Saint Michael's Hospice

Hospice Nurse

Up to £40,377.46 (FTE) per annum

37.5 hours (24 hour shift pattern)

Permanent

Location: Harrogate – Saint Michael’s Hospice

Closing date: 27th March 2024

Interviews will take place in Harrogate after the closing date.

Are you a Nurse that wants to go beyond conventional nursing duties?

Are you enthusiastic, innovative and motivated looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills? Here in our beautiful and tranquil setting at Crimple House in Harrogate, we offer patient focused holistic care for patients with a variety of complex nursing needs, whilst also supporting their loved ones, and providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support with a high nurse to patient ratio. This is your opportunity to make a difference and join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team passionately dedicated to providing specialist palliative and end of life care services across a variety of clinical settings.

If you are compassionate and caring, then you have the perfect foundation to develop into an expert in specialist palliative care nurse. Join our team and embark on a career in this highly rewarding field.

Pay scale

Newly qualified Nurse (under 2 years’ post-qualification experience):

£33,763.38 FTE (£17.27 per hour for the first 12 months), £36,727.76 FTE (£18.78 per hour 12-months to 2 years, enhancements included).

Qualified Nurse (minimum 2 years’ experience):

£39,193.71 FTE (£20.04 per hour), rising to £40,377.46 FTE (£20.65 per hour after a successful 6-month probation, enhancements included).

Have you been recommended to this role by a current employee as part of our recommend a friend scheme? Don’t forget to let us know after clicking apply.

Benefits include:

• 35 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays pro rata)
• Development of clinical skills
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free group life assurance
• Pension Scheme with employer contribution of 8%
• Support from a Clinical Practice Educator.
• Free DBS
• Free car parking at Hospice office sites. 
• Refer a friend bonus scheme

Please see a copy of the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role at the bottom of this page.

Please be aware we reserve the right to close a vacancy early if a suitable candidate is identified.

For more information on the role, please contact us on HR@saintmichaelshospice.org or on 01423 200145 and we can arrange for you to have an informal discussion with a member of the panel.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we are not currently able to consider applicants who do not have the right to work in the UK, but we are exploring becoming a sponsorship employer and hope to be able to offer this in the future.

You will be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to the people of Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, and District.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies. All our staff and volunteers receive annual training on both adults and children/young people’s safeguarding. This impacts our recruitment processes and we have adopted a number of safer recruitment practices, which our HR and People team can talk through with you.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks being obtained including but not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. Costs of pre-employment checks will be met by the organisation.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a registered charity in England and Wales (518905) with a family of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’, Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Talking Spaces. North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (2121179).

Our Values at Work                   

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is clear about who we are, what we do and why we do it. It is our vision; mission and values that underpin this understanding and all three of these areas continue to evolve as we develop in response to the changing world around us.

We have re-examined our values with our stakeholders seeking to define a sense of who we are today. The result? A set of 10 values/behaviours that crystallize this thinking and act as a yardstick for our thinking and actions.

This shared set of values helps guide our decisions, actions and behaviours and is at the core of our collective aspiration to live in a community where everyone gets the care they need to live their last years, months and days with respect and dignity.

NB: This list is not exclusive or exhaustive but captures those values/behaviours currently at the top of our agenda.