Registered Nurse - Roston, Shortbreak Home in Camborne

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Main area: Registered Nurse with experience of working with children

Grade: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 201-25-817

Site: Roston Shortbreak Home

Town: Camborne

Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 20/11/2025 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes:

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation:

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People:

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner:

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Job Overview:

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:

• Cornwall Foundation Trust
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

Come and contribute your nursing skills to providing a warm and homely environment that meets the emotional, physical, cultural, religious and spiritual needs of the child or young person requiring a residential short break with complex health needs. Children’s Services are looking to recruit to our Nursing Team at Roston, Camborne. Roston is a two-bedded Home, regulated by OFSTED which provides short breaks for children with a learning disability and complex health needs. This post will include weekend, bank holiday and night work. This is a permanent contract, and will be primarily based in Roston although the post holder may be required to work at the other short break home on occasion. We are looking for a registered nurse with experience of working with children with disabilities and health needs, but support, supervision, training and teamwork will be provided.

Main duties of the job:

• This role will assist the Ofsted Registered Manager in partnership with both family and other professionals in providing the appropriate care package, ensuring continuity and a consistent approach.
• To provide training and support to develop staff knowledge and skills that reflects the needs of each individual child and young person.
• To work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team, maintaining responsibility for a designated caseload of children who attend Roston.
• To have responsibility for leading a shift, working alongside skilled support staff, providing a residential short break to the children and young people who attend Roston and on occasion Layland.
• To perform all functions of the post consistent with relevant legislation, such as The Children Act 1989/2004.

Working for our organisation:

We are an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability. We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK. Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff. We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities:

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.

Person specification:

Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience:

Essential criteria:

• Current professional registration NMC
• Professional qualification RNLD, RSCN, Child Branch, RGN, RMN
• Evidence of professional updating (CPD)
• Clinical skills (e.g. enteral feeding, medication administration, care of sick child)
• Recognised training in care of the sick child or willingness to undertake
• Post registration experience of caring for children with complex health needs / learning disability
• Experience of coordinating and or managing patient care
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency setting

Desirable criteria:

• Possession of a relevant degree or working towards relevant degree
• Teaching or training qualification
• Experience of working within a residential short break provision
• Experience of assessing, developing and implementing positive behaviour support plans
• Excellent experience of caring for children with challenging behaviour

Career development opportunities:

• Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
• Individual professional development programmes

Benefits:

• Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

Closing notes:

The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment. If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses. Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644.