B6 Ward Sister – Canterbury

About the role:

*Please note, we are unable to offer Sponsorships or Visas for this role currently. All applicants will be asked to provide proof of right to work in the UK*

Step into a rewarding leadership role where your compassion and clinical expertise will truly make a difference.

As a Ward Sister within our inpatient unit, you’ll play a key role in delivering outstanding, person-centred palliative and end-of-life care – supporting patients and those important to them at the most meaningful times.

Working closely with the Senior Ward Sister, you’ll lead by example – coordinating day-to-day care, supporting your team, and ensuring the highest standards of safety, dignity and quality. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills, contribute to service improvements, and help shape a positive, learning-focused environment.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and want a role where your impact is felt every day, this is your opportunity to grow, lead and make a real difference.

This role is 37.5h per week, 5 shifts  between Monday-Sunday. Band 6 pay – £39,959 to £48,117 per annum depending on experience. Working patterns include early, late, night and long day shifts. This  role is based at Pilgrims Hospice Canterbury, but ability to travel to other sites, if required, is essential.

Main duties of the job:

The Ward Sister is a key clinical leader within the inpatient unit, combining expert clinical practice with operational and team leadership responsibilities.

The post holder will act as a role model, ensuring care is delivered with compassion, dignity and respect, and is underpinned by best practice and evidence-based standards.

Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, the Ward Sister will coordinate care delivery, support clinical decision-making, and contribute to a positive, learning-focused environment.

The role plays a vital part in ensuring high standards of patient experience, safety, and clinical effectiveness are consistently achieved.

Key duties include:

• Acting as a role model and maintaining high clinical profile within the multi-professional team.
• Providing clinical leadership for the nursing team, and create a supportive environment in which patient and family focused specialist palliative care can flourish
• Taking a proactive approach to effective admission and discharge planning, ensuring continuity of care for patients
• Providing advice and guidance related to symptom management
• Recognising and appropriately responding to changes in patients conditions
• Actively contributing to service development
• Being involved in the supervision and education of other health professionals
• Making recommendations for the development of and changes to working practices and processes as required

Our Vision:

“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Other benefits:

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing
• A good work-life balance
• Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
• NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free hospice parking

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.

If you think this is your ideal role and want to contribute to providing high quality palliative care and support to those at the end of their life, please apply now by submitting your application through the link below (NHSjobs).