An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self motivated and experienced nurse with specialist palliative care experience to join and lead the inpatient unit at Cynthia Spencer Hospice, Northampton. This post is full time 37.5 hours per week, but for the right candidate we will consider part time hours. Please ensure this is stipulated in your application form.

Cynthia Spencer Hospice has 16 inpatient beds, and is part of the Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) service in Northamptonshire. The applicant will have specialist knowledge and skills in palliative care and demonstrate energy and true enthusiasm for the speciality as well as strong leadership and management skills. Experience of working in partnership with charities would be an advantage.

The postholder ideally will have recent experience of holiding a Sister/Charge Nurse post or above within an inpatient or community environment. The postholder will have some experience of performance and budgetary management and managing the performance and development of staff.

NHFT as a whole has recently been rated by the CQC as Good (March 2017), with Specialist Palliative Care identified as Good overall, with an Outstanding for Care. The new Matron will be instrumental in working with the team to ensure we continue to strive for improvement.

Applicants who are shortlisted will be invited to an assessment day. Therefore it is essential that successful candidates are available for a minimum of a half day but could be up to a full day. Applicants will be required to complete numeracy and literacy as part of the interview process.

Informal visits or discussions are recommended prior to interview. To arrange an informal visit or if you have any questions about the post, please contact Jayne Adamson, Matron on 01604 678032 or alternatively you can contact Richard Glasspool, Service Manager Specialist Palliative Care on 01604 678033 or 07795 110290

Interviews: 14th July 2017 (to be confirmed)

We welcome applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status.

We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people.

NHFT is committed to building a diverse workforce, ensuring staff are treated fairly at work and ensuring all staff have the learning and development they need on equality in order to undertake their job role.

We aim to use monitoring information provided by our staff and by job applicants to ensure that we do not discriminate in employment and to use this information to plan any Positive Action to address inequality.

NHFT supports three staff equality networks to help us to develop our equality practice, as well as providing peer support for staff. These are:

• NHFT Staff Disability & Allies Network
• NHFT BME Staff Development Network
• NHFT LGBT & Allies Network

In addition to the position offered, please be advised that you will automatically be enrolled onto our Staff Bank and will hold an additional assignment as a bank worker. The offer of a Bank assignment will allow you to work additional hours on your own unit, and also the opportunity to undertake work flexibly across others areas of the Trust as and when it is available, and subject to the required grade and training requirements.