Access and Community Nurse Specialist (Band 6)

We have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Palliative Nurse Specialists to join the Community Nursing Service and rotate between the Access and Community Nurse Specialist Teams.

We are a supportive and dynamic team delivering outstanding palliative care to people in our community. You will need knowledge and experience of palliative care, confident decision-making skills and a passion to continuously improve and develop. This role is primarily advisory, with minimal hands-on nursing care.The Access Team manage the clinical Telephone Advice Line between 08:00 and 20:00 Monday to Sunday in addition to triaging all urgent external referrals to the hospice. The team are currently trialling a mix of long and short shifts over 7 days.The Community Nurse Specialist Team support a complex patient caseload of 400-450 patients, triaging all routine external referrals to the hospice. The team work 7.5 hr days Monday to Friday with a regular commitment to the weekend/ bank holiday rota.We can offer either full or part time hours (37.5 or 30 hours per week) Working as a Palliative Nurse Specialist within the Community Nursing Services requires a core skill set

• Holistic assessment – face to face and by phone 
• Problem solving, decision making, symptom control and prescribing advice
• Independent prescribing
• Advance care planning and completion of Respect plus    
• Joint working / liaison referral / signposting with internal and external MDT
• Initial bereavement support

You will be given excellent support to develop your nursing skills into a specialist role. There are opportunities for professional development and specialist training in palliative care, including Independent Prescribing.

About Us

St Peter's Hospice is a well-loved hospice that provides extensive inpatient and community services, in Bristol and the surrounding areas. Every year St Peter's Hospice makes a difference in the lives of thousands of patients and their families when it matters most. 

Many of our staff work directly with patients and their families in nursing, health care and medical jobs. Others raise money to support patient care through our chain of over 40 charity shops and our fundraising activities. We also have a significant number of staff working in varied office-based roles.

Our aim is to provide an inclusive, safe and healthy workplace that boosts creativity and motivation.

Our Inpatient Unit is a state-of-the-art centre of clinical excellence, that was built with the generous support of the people of Bristol. Beyond our Inpatient Unit, you'll find our team in homes and on the phone 24/7. More recently in response to the pandemic we have moved some services online to continue support for our patients.

The Hospice is also a centre of educational excellence and we teach other healthcare professionals about how to care for people at the end of their lives, supporting the NHS and care homes provide end of life care.

The Benefits

For our nursing and clinical teams, we offer attractive terms and conditions similar to the NHS including: 

• NHS equivalent salaries 
• Generous holiday entitlement and recognition for previous NHS service (up to 33 days for 10 years’ service) 
• Continuance of the NHS Pension Scheme for existing members