Senior Staff Nurse Hospice at Home
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an experienced and compassionate Senior Staff Nurse to join the Hospice at Home team at Rowans Hospice. You will deliver high-quality specialist palliative care in patients' homes, assessing needs, developing care plans, and providing expert clinical care with autonomy. The position also involves supervising junior staff and ensuring high standards of care. You will manage referrals, monitor symptoms, and communicate with various healthcare professionals.
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Proven leadership/management experience
- Excellent basic nursing care skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to demonstrate a good insight into palliative care principles and philosophy
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of palliative care symptom knowledge including and not exhaustive of; pain, nausea and vomiting, terminal agitation, bowel obstruction
- Able to demonstrate an understating of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to support symptom management
- Ability to facilitate individualised evidence-based care
- Leadership insight and potential with the evidence of effective team co-ordination skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and be flexible to changing demands
- Ability to share knowledge with others to develop and influence practice
- Able to maintain active and contemporaneous records
- Well-developed coping strategies
- Personal grief resolved sufficiently to cope and perform within palliative care setting.
Desirable criteria
- Communication qualification/experience
- uDNACPR training
- Physical Assessment and History Taking
- Experience of using SystmOne database
- Regular safe moving/handling of patients and equipment, including beds, mattresses, chairs and as necessary as regular bending and stretching involved.
- RGN or RN Adult Branch
- On NMC Register parts 1 or 12
- ENB 931/285/237/998 or equivalent/or relevant area of study
- Two years experience within a Palliative Care setting
- Driving License/Car Owner
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Proven leadership/management experience
- Excellent basic nursing care skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to demonstrate a good insight into palliative care principles and philosophy
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of palliative care symptom knowledge including and not exhaustive of; pain, nausea and vomiting, terminal agitation, bowel obstruction
- Able to demonstrate an understating of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to support symptom management
- Ability to facilitate individualised evidence-based care
- Leadership insight and potential with the evidence of effective team co-ordination skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and be flexible to changing demands
- Ability to share knowledge with others to develop and influence practice
- Able to maintain active and contemporaneous records
- Well-developed coping strategies
- Personal grief resolved sufficiently to cope and perform within palliative care setting.
- Communication qualification/experience
- uDNACPR training
- Physical Assessment and History Taking
- Experience of using SystmOne database
- Regular safe moving/handling of patients and equipment, including beds, mattresses, chairs and as necessary as regular bending and stretching involved.
- RGN or RN Adult Branch
- On NMC Register parts 1 or 12
- ENB 931/285/237/998 or equivalent/or relevant area of study
- Two years experience within a Palliative Care setting
- Driving License/Car Owner
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
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Rowans Hospice Charity
Senior Staff Nurse Hospice at Home
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Your Role
We are looking
for an experienced and compassionate Senior Staff Nurse to join our Hospice at
Home team, based at Rowans Hospice in Purbrook.
Reporting to
the Hospice at Home Manager, you will play a key role in delivering
high-quality specialist palliative care within patients' own homes. You will assess patients' needs, develop and
implement individualised care plans, and provide expert clinical care with a
high degree of autonomy. You will also
support and supervise registered and unregistered colleagues within the nursing
team, helping to ensure the highest standards of care.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Triaging referrals, assessing patients, and developing personalised programmes of care within the community, ensuring ongoing risk assessment and management.
- Maintaining regular contact with patients and their families, reviewing and evaluating care plans while prioritising care according to clinical need.
- Delivering specialist treatments and clinical procedures using evidence-based practice, including effective symptom assessment and management.
- Assessing the needs of patients and carers and making timely referrals to appropriate internal and
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