JOB TITLE: Staff Nurse, Ward
CONTRACT TYPE: Bank
DEPARTMENT: Ward Team
HOURS: Adhoc hours
SALARY: £21.15 per hour (£16.92 + 25% enhancement)
CLOSING DATE: 4 January 2026
INTERVIEW DATE: 14 January 2026
Are you keen to provide people with personalised care and support? Are you good at offering comforting words? Are you courageous enough to stand alongside local people and their families as they face the end of life? If you’re answering yes, then St Catherine’s Hospice would love to hear from you.
We’re seeking enthusiastic, caring and compassionate individuals to join our hospice team working on our wards in Crawley.
At St Catherine’s we strive to deliver the best possible care to our community. This is a brilliant opportunity to take on a rewarding role in a supportive environment and utilise your healthcare experience to support people when it’s needed most. Best of all, you’ll be encouraged to take the time and space to really get to know patients and the things that matter to them most.
Whether you’ve recently qualified, are returning to practice or looking for a new challenge, this is your chance to join a skilled, dedicated team committed to delivering outstanding end of life care to people from across West Sussex and East Surrey.
This post is offered on a Bank basis, working adhoc hours as and when required.
When applying for this vacancy, please submit a covering letter or add a note to your application, explaining why you would like to work for St Catherine’s Hospice
When you join St Catherine’s, you’ll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something you’d find fulfilling, please apply today.
Employees at St Catherine’s Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
- Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
- Day off for volunteering
- Day off for moving house
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye test vouchers
- Generous Pension – Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
- Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
- Life Assurance – 4x basic salary
- Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
- Flu Jabs
- Counselling Offering
- Discounted Gym
- Schwartz rounds
- Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
- Career pathway and progression
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We are located in Grace Holland Avenue, Pease Pottage, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 9SL.
For a full job description, please click here. (Please note this link may not work on Google Chrome, it is compatible with Microsoft Edge.)
Please note a requirement of all roles at St Catherine’s is to complete mandatory E-learning training and remain compliant with this throughout your employment.
If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.
Please upload either your CV or the St Catherine’s Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your application form, there is no need to complete both.
If you don’t have a CV and would like to complete our application for, this can be found here.
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If you require any additional information or would like to discuss this role further, please give us a call on 01293 447353.