Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse in the Integrated Care Team at Haven House Children's Hospice, caring for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions. The work covers symptom management, palliative and end-of-life care, and planned and emergency short breaks at the hospice, at home and in hospitals, with a lead role in clinical care. The hospice runs 24/7, so the post rotates between day and night 11.5-hour shifts and joins the senior on-call rota. RN registration and two years' paediatric experience are required.
What the job involves
- Lead clinical care and support high standards across the integrated team, including direct care for babies, children, young people and families
- Coordinate shift and caseload work to ensure safe, individualised care
- Provide palliative and end-of-life nursing care in the hospice and the community, including planned and emergency short breaks
- Contribute to care plans and assessments
- Communicate complex and sensitive information to families, care staff and the team
- Lead and support junior colleagues, including accountability for healthcare support workers and line management
- Take part in the senior nurse on-call rota covering planned, unplanned and end-of-life care
- Educate and train parents, carers, junior staff and students
- Embed safeguarding in practice and elevate concerns promptly
- Keep accurate, timely records on the electronic patient record system
- Support clinical governance through audit, monitoring CQC standards, incident reporting and reviews
- Work with multidisciplinary teams, schools and social care, and gather service user feedback
What’s required
Qualifications
- RN Child, Adult or Learning Disability
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
Experience
- Minimum 2 years post-registration paediatric nursing in an acute setting or similar, with complex needs, including young adults
- Experience across a broad range of needs, such as technology-dependent children, oncology and post-operative care
- Experience working in a constantly changing environment
- Experience in a community or hospice setting
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to teach clinical skills to young people, parents and care staff
- Ability to lead a team and communicate well with children, young people and multidisciplinary staff
- Ability to prioritise workload and be flexible to changing demands
- Basic IT skills, including word processing and spreadsheets
- IV competence
- Understanding of life-limiting conditions, infection control and safeguarding for children and young people
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
- Satisfactory references
- Right to work in the UK
Other
- Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and DoLS assessments, or willingness to learn
Nice to have
- ENB 998, teaching or mentoring qualification
- Palliative care or symptom management in life-limiting illness module, or similar
- Technical paediatric nursing skills, such as enteral feeding tubes, tracheostomies and seizure medication
- LTV competence
- Parenteral nutrition competence
- Experience working independently as well as part of a team
- Experience caring for children and young people who need end-of-life support
- Car driver with a clean driving licence
What’s offered
- Unsocial hours payment, dependent on shift pattern
- High cost area supplement (HCAS)
- Retention of NHS pension, if applicable
- Employer pension matching up to 7%
- Free on-site parking
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
