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Charge Nurse (In Patient Unit)

Hospice Band: 6

Hours: 36 hours per week (12-hour shifts – Long Days split over Monday to Friday)

Starting Salary: Step1 £44,273 WTE pro rata per annum (based on 37.5 hours per week) (rising to Step 2 £ 48,636 WTE following satisfactory performance review) + 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 are looking for an approachable, enthusiastic and committed registered nurse for this exciting and varied role. You’ll be based with our IPU team and be instrumental in providing support to our highly motivated and innovative staff providing high quality safe care. Working with the IPU lead, practice development team, quality assurance team, and wider hospice MDT, you will provide inspirational and motivational clinical leadership to a team of registered nurses and nursing auxiliaries. Your responsibilities will be to lead, supervise and manage the daily performance of staff, students, bank and agency staff and volunteers who are providing care to patients and act as a resource for clinical and professional learning.

You will also play a key role in developing new projects and initiatives that positively impact on the care that we deliver throughout our clinical services in supporting safe, effective and person-centred practices.

You will need an appreciation and understanding of working in a busy environment and be responsible for implementing and maintaining well-organised systems to deliver a varied range of project objectives on time.

You will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be a great team player, can work independently and be able to work under pressure

TO APPLY:

For more information including an application form and job description, click the 'Apply' button above to visit our Hospice website. We welcome enquiries about our vacancies. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Sally Ramage, IPU Lead, 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.