Childrens Hospice Nurse Band 5 (Equiv. to Grade 5)

We’re expanding our team and are looking for more Nurses to join our charity on a part‑time contract – minimum 22.5 hours (including nights & weekends). 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. As well as understanding their care needs, you’ll get to know what’s important to each child you support – whether it’s knowing what their favourite song to listen to is, how they like to play, or what soothes them when they are sad – at Noah’s Ark it’s so 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, either at our state‑of‑the art building, The Ark, or out in the community, you’ll be allowing parents and carers to take some 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 – something which can feel impossible for the families we support. Your commitment to children and families will continue through to end‑of‑life care. You’ll be a guiding reassuring presence for families and work with other healthcare professionals to create as much comfort as possible. You’ll be providing essential symptom management to help bring comfort. During this time you’ll continue to treat each child and family as an individual by taking the time to understand what is important to them. You’ll help to create memories to enable the best possible experience at the end of life.

A natural and experienced leader, you’ll deliver high quality and effective training to other members of the team and family members.

ABOUT YOU

You’ll be an experienced Nurse (Band 5 equivalent) with excellent clinical and communication skills. You’ll be able to work collaboratively with experience leading a multi‑skilled team, or can demonstrate experience of leadership with the support from a lead nurse. Aside 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 to be there for the children and families we support – we ask that you share this mission with us. You’ll thrive working autonomously, confident in your ability to deliver care on your own out in the community. You’ll know the value of collaboration, and will work closely with your team members, other healthcare professionals and the families you support to provide the very best care. 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. You’ll be qualified in Children’s Nursing and have completed your nursing preceptorship. DBS Enhanced DBS disclosure with Child Barring will be required for this post.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We believe that everyone deserves to be treated equally. It is central to our charity's mission. We ensure that no member of staff, or job applicant, is treated less favourably because of their sex, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity 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 under‑represented 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 for the role. Therefore, we kindly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.