Registered Childrens/LD Nurse in Middlesbrough

Are you looking for a new challenge and wanting to develop your clinical and leadership skills within the specialised area of paediatric palliative care? Are you looking for a role which enables you to provide 1:1 care to amazing children and their families and an opportunity to make a difference? If you would like to work in a professional supportive environment where quality and family centred philosophy are paramount, then look no further.

Benefits of joining our team are:

• 27 days Annual Leave plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Guaranteed leave for Christmas and New Year period
• Personal Training Budget
• Free on-site Parking

Main duties of the job:

The Registered Nurse will work as part of a team providing specialised respite and palliative care, advising and supporting junior staff and care assistants to facilitate high quality, individualised care in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team. They will provide a safe, caring, effective, responsive and well-led service to the families who access the hospice, to ensure that the children and families who access the service receive holistic family-centred care.

About us:

Zoes Place Baby Hospice is nurse-led, providing 24-hour short breaks and end of life support for babies and children up to the age of six who have life limiting and life-threatening complex needs.

Job responsibilities:

• Take charge on each clinical shift within a nurse led unit ensuring that staff are supported and competent to carry out their workload.
• Lead by example, role modelling high standards that reflect best practice guidelines, organisational policies and the hospice values.
• Ensure good time management and punctuality and maintain a professional appearance at all times.
• There is an on-call element to this role.

Person Specification:

Other:

• Basic understanding of clinical governance and ability to apply this to practice.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rota.

Qualifications:

• Experience of supporting and signing off students.

Attributes:

• Caring and approachable.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide holistic care.
• Ability to follow policies and procedures.
• Ability to follow instructions from senior members of the team.
• Ability to work shifts including nights and weekends.
• Reliable, punctual and organised.
• Demonstrate commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries.
• Aware of responsibilities in relation to data protection and confidentiality.
• Ability to work under pressure and tolerate stress within themselves and others.
• Ability to deal with difficult situations.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:

• Enthusiastic and motivated with a good conscientious attitude.
• Flexibility to meet service demands.
• A wide range of nursing skills and willingness to work towards full competence in clinical skills.
• Aware of responsibilities around safeguarding of children and adults.
• Use of research-based practice.
• Ability to use initiative and work unsupervised.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work within a team setting.
• Commitment to your own professional development.
• Experience of paediatric palliative care and supporting families who have experienced loss or bereavement.
• Awareness of the skills, interactions and models that underpin effective communication with children who have life limiting and life threatening conditions and their families.
• Experience of working for a charitable organisation.
• Experience with children requiring Long Term Ventilation.
• Experience caring for people with Tracheostomy tubes.
• Aware of the CQC Key lines of Enquiry.

Experience:

• Minimum of 1 years post-registration experience.
• Experience as nurse in charge/co-ordinating a team.
• Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code.
• Experience of working with children and families with complex needs and life limiting, life threatening illnesses.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.