Senior Nurse - Durham

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Job Description

Title - Senior Nurse

Salary - Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale Band 6 (aligned with AFC) (£35,392 and £42,618 pro rata per annum depending on experience + enhancements

Hours/Contract Part Time - 22.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Based: Durham Work Space, Pity Me (travel required within the region)

Closing date: 19th May 2024

Interview date: TBC

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their leadership skills in a clinical role, sharing nursing and palliative care knowledge to really influence and shape patient care across the region.

Marie Curie Benefits Package:

• Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
• Defined contribution schemes for Pension
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Introduce a friend scheme
• Help with childcare cost (T & C's apply)
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
• Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
• Life assurance - for all employees
• Eye care- (under Display Screen Equipment (DSE) regulations, Marie Curie will pay towards sight tests if you use computer screens and other displays as part of your job)
• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme
• Strong time management skills and the ability to proactively plan and schedule your own workload.

What we are looking for:

• Experience of delivering training.
• Experience in observation and assessment of clinical practice, to determine standards of care.
• An understanding of specific needs of patients approaching end of life

What's in it for you:

• Annual leave allowance = 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
• Annual leave aligned to NHS (subject to eligibility, which must be most recent continuous service immediately prior to joining MC with no breaks of service)
• Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave
• Continuous Professional development - (Marie Curie supports and encourages personal and professional development)
• Industry leading training programmes
• Flexible Working
• Free DBS
• Free Uniform
• Generous enhancements
  • 30% x your basic salary per hour paid for Saturdays & weekday night duty (8pm to 6am)
  • 60% x your basic salary per hour paid for Sundays and Public Bank Holidays

In this key role, supported by the Clinical Nurse Manager, you'll deliver day to day support to a great team of Marie Curie Health Care Assistants and Registered Nurses. Working clinically alongside the team, the role will involve delivering training and assessing staff competence, recording and investigating incidents and writing reports, caseload management You will also be required to deputise for the Clinical Nurse Manager in their absence.

A confident communicator and calm decision maker, you'll need experience and knowledge of palliative and end of life care and an awareness of the role of wider community services, together with well-developed assessment and organisational skills. The ability to prioritise your work, whilst juggling a variety of changing demands, is vital.

The role is based at our office in Pity Me with travel in the surrounding community. The ability to drive with access to a vehicle insured for business use is therefore essential

If you're ready to take the next step in your career, then this could be the role for you.

For more information or an informal chat please contact our Clinical Nurse Manager, Penny Magneron -penny.magneron@mariecurie.org.uk

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Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory enhanced criminal record check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

About Us

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.

Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.