We have exciting opportunities within our Hospice at Home team for Senior Staff Nurses or Community Response Paramedics. You will need to be an experienced Registered Nurse or Registered Paramedic with experience of palliative care or other relevant experience. This is a busy but rewarding role working in a supportive team with a strong team spirit. The ideal candidate will be capable of autonomous decision-making in the community, possess good communication skills, and demonstrate excellent care values, putting the patient first. You will respond to urgent calls for symptom management while collaborating with other hospice services, carers, and community partners.

These opportunities offer a more flexible approach to work, fitting around your lifestyle to provide a healthy work-life balance. We offer shift enhancements as follows:

• Work on a Saturday - Time and one third (1.33)
• Work on a Sunday or Bank Holiday - Time and two thirds (1.66)
• Work after 8pm-8am - Time and one third (1.33)

Main duties of the job

• Care with Agility: To work as part of our specialist, highly skilled Hospice at Home Team, ensuring our patients feel comfortable and at ease in familiar surroundings.
• To act as a resource to patients in East Berkshire and South Bucks on the End of Life Register, offering assessment, complex symptom control, emotional support, advanced care planning, advice, and treatment.
• To serve as a resource to professional colleagues across East Berkshire.
• To function autonomously in providing excellent end-of-life care advice.
• To advise and collaborate with colleagues on the management of physiological and psychological symptoms.
• To use specialist skills and high-level decision-making, including evaluating research and evidence, in assessing and managing complex symptoms in patients' homes.

Thames Hospice is an independent adult hospice with a beautiful 28-bed facility at Bray Lake in Maidenhead, offering stunning views of the lake and state-of-the-art facilities.

We are always seeking excellent individuals to bring their skills, values-driven behaviors, and commitment to delivering quality end-of-life care for everyone. As part of our team, we raise funds, support each other across clinical and corporate services, and ensure everything runs smoothly to provide the best outcomes for our patients and families. Working in a complex organization can be demanding but also highly rewarding. If you want to join our Hospice at Home team, we would love to work with you.

Culture: We seek compassionate individuals who care deeply about their work. If you want to develop your skills and confidence in a supportive environment that values and nurtures its staff, this is the right place for you. We strive to look after our people, patients, families, and our reputation. All patients are Thames Hospice patients, and we support them and their families regardless of individual roles. We represent our charity and clinical model at all times.