Senior Nurse (Hospice / Palliative Care)

Contract: Permanent
Location: Harrogate Based
Hours: 30-37.5 hours per week (includes nights and weekends)
Salary: £45,969.69 per annum FTE (45% of hours need to be in unsocial hours)
Closing Date:  Friday 13^th February 2026 (the advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications)

Are you an experience registered nurse looking for an opportunity to use your clinical expertise and leadership skills to make a real difference? Would you like to join an organisation where compassionate care, professional development and strong teamwork go hand in hand?

We’re looking for a Senior Nurse to play an essential role in delivering outstanding end-of-life care while supporting and developing our incredible team at Saint Michaels Hospice in Harrogate.

About us

Our family of services - Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’ and Saint Michael’s Hospice - provide vital support to people when they need it most. Our vision is of a community where everyone gets the care they need, want and deserve, and you can help make that a reality.

We are an independent charity powered by local communities. Every day, we help to improve quality of life for people living with terminal illness, bereavement and mental health concerns, because our belief is that no one should suffer. Our incredible teams work together to make this happen.

About the role

As a Senior Nurse on our inpatient unit at Saint Michael’s Hospice, you’ll play a key role, helping to shape high-quality, patient-centred hospice care. Alongside delivering expert clinical care, you’ll provide value-led leadership, supporting and developing others, promoting best practice, and contributing to the ongoing improvement of our services.

In this role, you’ll:

·        Deliver expert palliative and end-of-life care with empathy and professionalism.

·        Take clinical leadership on shift, supporting and guiding the wider nursing and care team.

·        Act as a mentor and role model, promoting championing continuous learning and a positive team culture.

·        Play an active role in service improvement, clinical audits, and governance.

This Senior Nurse role is based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and is commutable from areas including Ripon, Leeds and York.

About you

You will need to be an experienced and compassionate Senior Nurse with strong clinical judgement and the confidence to lead and support others.

In addition to a current NMC registration and nurse qualification, you’ll bring:

·        Experience in hospice, palliative or end-of-life care

·        Experience of taking a leadership role in a clinical setting (e.g. shift lead, senior staff nurse or ward-based leadership)

·        Strong assessment, decision-making and escalation skills

·        A commitment to continuous improvement and high standards of care

How we look after you

We put people first in all that we do, including our own team

·        Wellbeing and resilience support, reflective practice and supervision

·        A supportive, inclusive and values-driven culture  

·        Opportunities to grow, develop and progress

How to apply:

Please click Apply and you will be forwarded to the vacancy page on our website. Click on the role and this will open the application form.

·       Download and read through job description (via the ‘Downloads’ section at the top of the advert) as you will need to tell us how you meet the essential requirements of the role.

·        Make sure you answer all supplementary questions as part of your application otherwise your application will be automatically rejected.

·      We recommend reading the application pack “Joining Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’ and Saint Michael’s” and browsing the “Join our team” pages of our website, which will provide lots of useful information about what it’s like working for us and how the recruitment process works. 

·      Did you hear about this role from a current employee as part of our recommend a friend scheme? Don’t forget to let us know after clicking apply.

Our values                               

·        We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do

·        We are caring and compassionate

·        We are personal and supportive in our approach

·        We engage positively

·        We are responsive

·        We are driven to do better

·        We are fair

·        We are professional

·        We work collaboratively

·        We are accountable

Living out our values

·  Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes at saintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework.

    We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we collect and monitor EDI data of applicants to help us ensure that our policies and procedures are effective in promoting equality. The information you provide in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion section of the application form will have no bearing on your application, it is only used for diversity monitoring and is not visible to hiring managers.

·     We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind.  Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services. Please see our safeguarding statement on our website: saintmichaelshospice.org/safeguarding-statement

·        If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing people@saintmichaelshospice.org

·       We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.

Don’t quite meet the requirements for this role? We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch via people@saintmichaelshospice.org to discuss other opportunities across our family of services.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we are not currently able to consider applicants who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care has a duty to protect those who receive our support. Roles within our organisation are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All applicants aged 16 or over who are offered employment will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before the appointment is confirmed. This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings, and convictions. Applicants will not be discriminated against due to convictions and cautions, but will be considered on their merit. Should a successful candidate have any convictions or cautions, the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of the offences will determine if it is possible to proceed with the appointment.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a registered charity in England and Wales (518905) with a family of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’, Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Talking Spaces. North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (2121179).