Staff Nurse (Home Care)

If you’re someone with a heart for care and a desire to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to join us on this journey.

This role will also support families and care givers of patients and work with the rest of the multi-disciplinary team to provide symptom management, nursing care, psychological, emotional and spiritual care.

Responsibilities:

• To uphold nursing standards for patients admitted to homecare as well as care for families and loved ones.
• To work in collaboration with the Advanced Practice Nurse, NC/NM/NE and other nursing staff as appropriate to put in place clinical processes that are conducive to the maintenance and improvement of standards of nursing care in Home Care.
• To ensure accuracy of all documentations related to patient care in the system.
• To ensure holistic assessment of patients in DPH Home Care and their families and caregivers in order to formulate a core plan.
• To be part of the nursing teaching faculty at DPH as required and to be part of the process of quality improvement through review of care processes, active participation and/or leadership in projects as required.

Job Requirements:

• State Registered Nurse with minimum 5 years of nursing experience in acute care setting, and 3 years as a staff nurse in a palliative care setting.
• Post-Basic training in Palliative Care Nursing is preferred.
• Training in lean methodology, audit and research is preferred.
• Ability to speak a second language or other local languages
• Mature, dynamic, and self-motivated.
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-directed with the ability to work with little supervision.
• Comply with accepted professional standards and practices.
• Possess satisfactory references from employers and / or professional peers.
• Flexible and cooperative in fulfilling all obligations.