# Staff Nurse Hospice

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** Depends on experience
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-27T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14T12:13:18.966Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0263-26-0311?employerCode=B0263
- **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/B0263-26-0311/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=B0263-26-0311

## Job Content

### Job summary

We are looking for a new Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our Charity funded Inpatient Hospice. The Hospice consists of an 18 bedded in patient unit, a Day Centre and a community team maintaining highest standards of palliative care with in multidisciplinary environment. Services are provided for people with cancer, HIV and other life threatening illnesses and for their significant others.

### Main duties of the job

Patient are admitted to the Hospice Specialist Palliative care In-Patient Unit for assessment, symptom control, terminal care, rehabilitation, respite care and medical interventions from a wide catchment area of the following CCGs primary care trusts of Westminster, Brent, Camden, Islington.

This role would ideally suit an experienced Palliative Care Nurse from either a Hospice or Hospital Background. You will have previously mentored staff and trained junior members of the team.

### About us

Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St John's.

### Details

- Date posted: 14 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: Depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: B0263-26-0311
- Job locations: 60 Grove End Road, St John’s Wood, London, NW8 9NH, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

To maintain continuous high standards of skilled nursing care and professional practice through evidence based practice To promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence based practice To act as a role model and expert clinical practitioner. To supervise and teach both trained staff, health care assistants and student nurses To assist the Ward Manager in all aspects of leadership and management of the hospice in-patient unit To assist in the coordination of services provided by the inpatient unit, and to contribute to the day to day running of the service. To assist, where necessary, in the provision of other services provided by the hospice

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Experience at Band 5 or above in specialist palliative care or oncology
- Demonstrable practice that is evidence based and up to date
- Experience of identifying and dealing with risks encountered within own practice

**Desirable**

- Experience of supporting junior / less experienced staff
- Able to use assertive communication skills
- Able to conduct audits in objective and efficient manner

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