* Its time to be the best Nurse you can be
* Time to care
* Time to learn new skills
* Time to feel valued
* Time to be part of a nursing team like no other
If you are looking for a new nursing experience with time to care and time to develop your clinical skills, whilst feeling valued as part of a supportive team, there has never been a better time to join us as we embark on our ambitious plans for the growth and development of children's hospice care in the South West.
Main Duties of the Job
You will use your specialist clinical skills to help provide individualised paediatric and palliative care that puts the family at the centre of everything you do.
Our beautiful, welcoming hospices provide an incredibly calming and supportive haven for families facing the death of their child.
You will have time to develop your skills as part of a clinical, educational, psychological and holistic network across South West England, enabling you to care for our most clinically complex children with confidence.
On a typical day you could be dealing with a tracheostomy, supporting a ventilated child or making up a syringe driver in the morning and enriching the lives of the children through fun and play in the afternoon.
A rare opportunity to provide truly holistic care, ensuring dreams are fulfilled and precious memories are made.
The care and support we provide can span many years, or be a brief moment in time, being there when families need us most.
You will leave each day knowing you have made a real difference.
About Us
Our hospices in Devon, Bristol and Cornwall have been providing expert, individualised care to support children, young people and their families for more than 30 years. We are hoping to reach even more families in 2023 and are currently recruiting Nurses from a variety of different nursing settings and backgrounds for our hospices.
Benefits include:
* Starting salary £33,317 to £39,313 depending on post qualification experience, annual increments, rising to £40,822
* Enhancements for working weekends, nights and bank holidays
* 33 days annual leave rising to 35 with long service, plus bank holidays
* Enhanced sickness benefits rising to 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay
* Nurturing and supportive working environment
* Excellent training and development opportunities
* Retention of NHS pension
* Free on-site parking
Job Responsibilities
CHSW delivers services to children and their families who have a palliative care need and meet the agreed referral criteria. The CHSW ethos is to support the whole family and our delivery model includes care wherever the child is when they need it most including care at the hospice base, at home and virtual support.
The Registered Nurse will work as part of the care multidisciplinary team, working under the leadership of the Care Team Leaders (TL) to provide direct care and support to children and their families.
Major Tasks (not exhaustive):
* To ensure the care provided to children and families is highly personalised and of the highest quality.
* To foster a warm, welcoming and caring environment, informal in nature and whilst upholding the highest standards of care, which offers support tailored to the individual needs of each referred child and their family.
* To provide holistic nursing care (physical, emotional, social and spiritual) for children and members of the family. This may include feeding, washing, play, specific medical/nursing care, listening/supporting, giving information, and caring for the child wherever they are located.
* To provide clinical care wherever the child is, working in the hospice, at home and virtually. This includes within the child's home for home visits or community care, care at end of life, being part of assessments, referrals, care plan meetings, MDT meetings.
* To ensure parents are respected, working in partnership with them in the care of their child.
* To ensure that there is positive and robust engagement with children and families and ensuring the voice of the child is heard.
* The clinical skills required will need to meet the care requirements of all the children/young people on the CHSW caseload.
* To ensure that the ethos and quality standards of CHSW are positively promoted and a safe and professional service is delivered at all times.
* To support the ongoing compliance evidence assessment processes across care ensuring the hospices and teams are CQC inspection ready and engaging with any improvement plans.
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RSCN RN Child (or other registered nurse (e.g. RGN, RN, RNLD) with substantial paediatric palliative care experience and willing to undertake further learning in this field)
* Education to degree level or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through a combination of alternative study, or employment experience.
* Current Professional UK registration e.g. NMC
* Degree/Diploma in palliative care for children or equivalent.
Experience
* Clinical experience and competence, including extensive post qualification experience working with children/adults with a life limiting / life threatening condition.
* Experience of working with children who are technology dependant and or have complex symptom control.
* Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile.
* Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for clinical services.
* Experience and knowledge of professional issues in paediatric palliative care.
* Significant hands-on experience providing palliative care for children and their families.
* Knowledge of key legislation and key drivers within paediatric palliative care.
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to show evidence of being self-motivated, work autonomously and working proactively.
* Ability to communicate effectively with the leadership teams, colleagues, service users, their parents and carers and external partners.
* Able to manage a wide ranging and complex workload.
* Ability to retain resilience whilst working in a demanding and unpredictable environment.
* Ability to demonstrate the required level of behaviour in keeping with CHSW core behaviours and values.
* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, Outlook.
* Experience of Caseload management.
* Managing difficult conversations, with both staff and families.
Personal Qualities
* A personal commitment to and empathy for the philosophy of children's hospice care.
* A collaborative manner which is courteous, confident, consistent, approachable and non-confrontational.
* Resourceful, energetic and creative/solution focused approach to work.
* A good listener with capacity and resourcefulness when supporting people positively through challenging emotive situations.
* Professional, with emotional intelligence, insightfulness and able to uphold professional boundaries.
Other Requirements
* Satisfactory Enhanced DBS check
* Full UK Driving Licence
* Ability to work unsocial hours including nights, weekends and bank holidays
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£33,317 to £39,313 a year Pay based on post qualification experience. Unsocial hours enhancements.
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