Registered General Nurse – Ashford

Location: Ashford, TN24 0NE

Status: Permanent (full and part-time roles available)

Salary: £31,049- £37,796 per annum (DOE, pro rata if part-time)

Closing date: 31/03/2026

This is a rolling advert; suitable candidates will be invited to interview when they apply.

Meet our team and find out more at our Open Day on Friday 24 October 2025.

Why work for us?

Do you want to develop your nursing skills into a specialist role and be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team that makes excellent patient care their priority?

Do you have a passion for working collaboratively in an environment of thriving on positive change and making a difference to those with palliative and end of life care needs?

Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life, through:

Holistic needs assessment
Providing individually-planned care informed by patient wishes
Supporting patients and their families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their wishes for end-of-life care

If so, then the role of Registered General Nurse at Pilgrims may be just the job for you!

We’re seeking well-motivated and forward-thinking professionals to join our multi-disciplinary team, supporting patients across east Kent.

As a member of the wider clinical team, the successful candidate will be involved in assessing and developing appropriate plans of intervention and support for patients and their families, acting as a resource in providing advice on active palliative care management.

Key duties include:

Providing a high standard of palliative nursing care, which reflects evidence-based practice, encompasses patient choice, and makes best use of valuable resources;
Assessing, planning and implementing individualised and effective patient care and evaluating the outcome;
Communicate with members of the internal and external multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best care for patients whilst on the ward and on discharge;
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;
Undertaking evidence-based projects and audits;
Making recommendations for the development of and changes to working practices and processes, as required.

Recognising the need to support employees working within this field, we provide an extensive range of physical and psychological support measures through our health and wellbeing programme, to ensure your success, including:

A supportive and friendly working environment;
Regular quality interactions with our clinical and medical teams;
Strong working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams;
On-going training and CPD/career development;
A range of resources to ensure our staff have access to help and support where and when they need it; and
Regular self-care and development sessions.

As our wards operate on a shift working basis, you’ll need a flexible approach to working hours, including the ability to work nights and on weekends.

About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision

“Of a community where people with a life limiting-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 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 charitable 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

, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

our CODE

CompassionateWe treat everyone with compassion and care
OpenWe communicate openly, honestly and effectively
DynamicWe are dynamic, improving and developing our service
EmpoweredWe 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:

Excellent work/life balance
Access to the NHS pension scheme*
Current pay rates benchmarked against NHS bandings
Generous annual leave
Sick leave from Day 1
Eligibility for Blue Light Card discount scheme
Multidisciplinary working within a diverse team
Paid CPD hours and career development pathways
Subsidised meals (from just £2.50!)
Free on-site staff parking

*NHS pension scheme is available to staff who have contributed into the NHS pension scheme within 12 months before joining Pilgrims.

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 join our nursing team and contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, then we’d love to hear from you.