Childrens Hospice Nurse Grade 4 (Equiv. to Band 6)

Overview

We’re expanding our team and are looking for more Nurses to join our charity. You’ll be joining an award-winning, certified Outstanding team, who do all they can to empower children and families to experience as much life as possible. This will be perfect for you if you are looking for a part-time role with minimum hours 22.5 on a variety of shifts.

About Noah\’s Ark Children’s Hospice

We exist to help babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and their families, make the most of every day. Our mission is to enable those we support to enjoy life as children, not patients; as families, not just as carers. We cater our services to each individual person we support, from the point of diagnosis. Our help is available wherever it is needed. Our expert staff and trained volunteers can provide support in a family’s home, in the community, or at our state-of-the-art building, The Ark, in Barnet. We work in collaboration with key NHS Trusts and other care providers to deliver the best support to children and families. We have created a space where children with complex needs are accepted as they are, safe to play, explore, express themselves and build confidence.

About the Role

We’re expanding our team and are looking for more Nurses to join Noah’s Ark. You’ll be joining an award-winning, certified Outstanding team, who do all they can to empower children and families to experience as much life as possible. As a member of the Noah’s Ark Nurse and Specialist Care team, you’ll be encouraged to put the experience of children and families at the heart of all you do. You’ll understand their care needs and get to know what’s important to each child you support – what their favourite song is, how they like to play, or what soothes them when they are sad. At Noah’s Ark it’s important that each child is treated as an individual. You’ll focus on what children can do, rather than their limitations, and will support them to experience things they may never have thought possible.

By providing care for children at our building, The Ark, or out in the community, you’ll be allowing parents and carers to take time for themselves. The hours of care you’ll provide will make a huge difference, allowing them to live life outside of their child’s condition. By creating this time, you’ll be creating choice for the families we support. You’ll join our experienced nursing team to help provide a 24/7 on-call symptom assessment/management service for babies, children and young people in The Ark and out in the community. Your commitment to children and families will continue through end-of-life care. You’ll be a guiding, reassuring presence for families, elevating anxiety and worry and working with other healthcare professionals to provide comfort and support, including the option of preferred place of care and preferred place of death. You’ll help create memories to enable as good a death as possible.

As a natural and experienced leader, you’ll deliver high quality and effective training to other team members and family members. You’ll provide direct line management support to Band 5 Nurses and Band 3 & 4 Specialist Carers.

About You

With excellent clinical and communication skills, you’ll either be an experienced Band 5 Nurse with palliative care experience ready to take a step upwards, or a Band 6 Nurse already working in the palliative care sector or with previous palliative care experience. You’ll have at least one year experience caring for children with complex care needs. You’ll have experience managing a nursing team, or experience supporting students, junior staff nurses or support workers. You’ll be able to work collaboratively, experienced in leading a multi-skilled team, or demonstrable experience of leadership with support from a lead nurse.

Apart from experience, we look for individuals who share our core values of kindness, excellence and courage. We’ll support you to go above and beyond for the children and families we support; please share this mission with us. You’ll thrive working autonomously, confident in delivering care on your own out in the community, while valuing collaboration with your team, other healthcare professionals and families. Creativity and play will be central to your approach to care, with the ability to build long-term relationships with the children and families you care for.

Additional Information

Kindly see attached job description for more information about this opportunity. DBS: an enhanced DBS disclosure with Child Barred will be required for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction, ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding the families we support.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that everyone deserves to be treated equally. It is central to our charity’s mission. No member of staff or job applicant is treated less favourably because of sex, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, disability, gender identity or marital status. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will guarantee an interview to those candidates with a disability if they meet the minimum requirements of the role. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in our staff.

Please note – we are only accepting direct applications for this role. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications, so please submit your application as early as possible.