**Closing Date extended to 23 September 2024**

Palliative Care Staff Nurse - Access / Community Team

Full & Part time positions available

Hospice Band: 5

Starting Salary: £33,946 WTE (rising to Step 2 £37,664 WTE subject to satisfactory performance review) pro rata per annum + Pension + Benefits

St Columba's exists to give everyone who needs it the very best hospice care. We're an independent charity at the heart of our local community, offering free, flexible and person-centred palliative care and support to our patients and their families.

We currently have both full-time and part-time vacancies for caring and compassionate registered nurses to join our Hospice Team. You’ll be a Registered Nurse with palliative care experience, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a proven ability to work as part of a multi-professional team.

You will be responsible for initial and ongoing holistic assessment of new patients and planning of care to meet the patients and carers practical, psychosocial, spiritual needs, as well as responding to queries requests for advice and support form patients, families and colleagues. This is a responsive/reactive role suited to experienced staff nurses with palliative care experience. This post will involve rotation to work within the Access team and community setting, initially being office based.

This is an extremely supportive team environment. This initial work is key to ensuring that everyone in need of hospice services receives support as quickly and comprehensively as possible – and is triaged to the most appropriate team for follow up.

For more information, including a job description and an application form visit our stcolumbashospice.org.uk website or click the 'Apply on Company website' button above.

We welcome enquiries about our vacancies. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Becky Chaddock, Kate Crichton or Martyn Bijak, using the contact details on our website.

MORE INFORMATION:

This post requires the post holder to have a criminal records check at a PVG scheme record update level. An application will be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post. A joint application will be made which the Hospice will pay for.

St Columba's Hospice Care is an independent Scottish Charity, SC003634, regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). Scotland’s first modern hospice, it first opened its doors in 1977. Over the years it has grown and evolved into an exemplary provider of specialist palliative care for thousands of people with life-limiting illnesses in Edinburgh and the Lothians annually, while also providing support to their relatives and loved ones.

The 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 click on to our website using the Apply refer to the vacancy pack for the role you are interested in.