Job Description

Inpatient Unit Team Lead - SMH Band 7

St Michael's Hospice

Salary: 45,955 - 52,588 FTE (dependent on experience and hours)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)

What are we looking for?

An exciting opportunity has arisen at St. Michael's Hospice to join our team. We are looking for an experienced senior nurse (RN) to lead our Hospice Inpatient Unit. You will have experience of working within a Specialist Palliative Care inpatient or community setting.

The role

In this role, you will be working clinically with a high level of skill and expertise in Palliative and End of Life Care. You will work closely with the Clinical Leadership Team and be a member of the Clinical Management Team, ensuring safe coordinated care is delivered across the organisation.

You will have excellent leadership and management skills proven in your experience of managing teams. You will lead and operationally manage the Inpatient team providing consistent management and clear leadership, you will ensure development opportunities are available for your team and that Quality & Governance is set and kept at a high standard. You will work with the Clinical Leadership Team to support service development in line with St. Michael's strategic objectives.

A career in hospice care enables you to be part of a multi-professional team and provide holistic care to patients who have life limiting illnesses. It is our aim to ensure that our patients achieve the best quality of life.

About St. Michael's Hospice

St. Michael's has a newly refurbished 10 bed In-Patient Unit, as well as Hospice at Home, Patient and Family Support services and a Living Well service, specialist clinics with support from our therapy team across all our services. We offer excellent support and training opportunities as well as the potential to develop specialist skills, initiating and contributing to evolving clinical services.

We are dedicated to providing care to people throughout North Hampshire who are affected by life limiting illness to attain the highest possible quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.

As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. This care is made possible by supporters donating, taking part in fundraising events and activities, playing our lottery, shopping in our retail outlets, leaving gifts in their Wills or giving freely of their time to volunteer.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Karen Drake, Clinical Director at St. Michael's Hospice, on telephone number 01256 844744

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Our benefits

We offer attractive benefits, including, free parking, life assurance, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and an extensive health and wellbeing plan and company pension.

Closing date: 23rd November 2025

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 45,955.00-52,588.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount Free parking Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:

Basingstoke RG24 9NB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:

palliative care : 5 years (required) management: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:

NMC (required) UK Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person