St Leonard's Hospice
Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse
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Have you got a community based clinical experience and are looking for a new challenge?
Our Hospice@Home service is recruiting a Deputy Sister/ Charge Nurse to work alongside the existing leadership team to deliver excellent care enabling people to remain at home and placing them at the hard of what we do. Hospice@Home provide hands on nursing care where appropriate, working in partnership with GPs, District Nurses and other specialist nurses.
As a Deputy Sister/ Charge Nurse, your duties will include:
- Taking responsibility as Nurse in Charge on shift
- Demonstrating leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of person-centred care as and when needed
- Working with the team to develop a culture of reflective practice
- Managing risk and balancing demands that come up in the service
- Communicating appropriately with all patients, their families and other staff
- Being responsible for driving ongoing service development to ensure we continue to meet the needs of our diverse local population
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Our ideal candidate will:
- Have experience of working clinically within the community including excellent nursing skills, record keeping and medicines management
- Have knowledge of palliative and end of life care
- Be highly motivated, dynamic and passionate about hospice care
- Have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate with all levels
- Be able to respond appropriately to emotionally challenging situations
What we can offer you:
- Competitive salaries and pending pay award
- Shift enhancements for working unsociable hours
- Golden Hello of £1,000 (after tax) as a special thank you and welcome to our team
- Reimbursement of NMC fees
- Extensive employee discounts on shops, holidays and lifestyle choices and Blue Light Card discounts
- Up to 41 days Annual Leave
- Continuation of NHS pension and annual leave entitlement (T&Cs apply)
- Attractive pension scheme for non-NHS staff
- Work at a Hospice that has research and campaigning at the forefront of its mission
- Free car parking
- Great CPD opportunities
- A supportive and friendly working environment
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This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week which will include nights, weekends and bank holidays and be a part of the clinical on-call rota. The salary band for this role is £40,190 - £48,396 per annum.
To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. The closing date for this role is 23 August 2026, however we reserve the right to extend or close this post earlier.
For an informal discussion, please contact the Hospice’s HR Team at hr@stleonardshospice.org.uk or on 01904 777742.
We do not have sponsorship status and therefore all our offers are made conditional upon our candidates submitting evidence of their right to work in the UK in conjunction with our other pre-employment checks.
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