Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
LE11
The vacancy
Join Rainbows Hospice as a Band 5 Nurse in Loughborough and become a specialist in end-of-life and palliative care, making a meaningful impact each day. Here, you'll gain unique expertise, continuous professional development, and the chance to be part of a compassionate team dedicated to exceptional care for babies, children, young people and their families.
If you can demonstrate experience working with babies, children and young people with complex care needs and are passionate about providing a high standard of nursing care in a family-led environment, we would like to hear from you.
We're seeking skilled Band 5 Nurses to join our valued clinical care team. You'll be part of a vibrant, multidisciplinary team, providing 1:1 nursing care, symptom management, palliative and end-of-life support, and planned short breaks at the hospice. Working alongside Music Therapists, Complementary Therapists, and our Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) team, you'll contribute to our holistic approach to care in an environment that encourages personal and professional growth.
Rainbows Hospice is available for families all year, 24 hours a day, we therefore operate on a shift basis to provide the best possible service.
This is a rolling advert, and you will be contacted if you have been shortlisted.
Benefits of working at Rainbows:
In addition to Agenda for Change pay scales, we offer a range of benefits including:
* Opportunity for current NHS pension scheme members to transfer their membership
* Free car parking on site at the Hospice
* Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
* Established Training programme that will enable you to comply with NMC registration
* Specialist training and development opportunities and working within a supportive team with specialist knowledge
* Time to care for patients: Each baby, child and young person has 1:1 care
* Affordable freshly cooked meals whilst on shift at the Hospice
* Free Tea, Coffee and Fruit whilst on shift at the Hospice
* Free access to Health Assured employee assistance programme
* Wellbeing support and access to Mental Health First Aiders
* Unofficial benefits: Fun events like Total Wipe Out, All staff away days, Guest visitors
About the Role
As a Rainbows Band 5 nurse you'll be responsible for supporting the Deputy Lead Nurse Shift Coordinator in planning and implementing care for children and young people, with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, providing symptom management, palliative and end-of-life care on a 1:1 basis within the hospice.
You will be responsible for:
* Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care of children and young people in partnership with them and their parents/guardians
* Providing excellent short break, palliative, and end of life care at Rainbows in a family-centered environment in conjunction with all members of the multi-disciplinary team
* Ensuring all procedures are carried out in accordance with local and national policies in force within the Hospice
* Further responsibilities in the role of a Band 5 Nurse at Rainbows can be found by downloading the Job Description.
Requirements:
As an experienced Band 5 Nurse at Rainbows, you'll need to be qualified RSCN/RN (Child Branch)/RNLD/RNCB with post registration experience, relevant placement experience or pre-nurse training care experience. Experience with babies, children and/or young people (0-25 years) with complex needs is also required for the role.
Palliative care experience is desirable; however specialist training and development opportunities will be provided. Excellent communication skills and the ability to demonstrate high standards of clinical care are essential. Further requirements can be found by downloading the Person Specification.
For more information about this role, or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Zena Barratt, Lead Nurse for Clinical Operations.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and barring Service Check) and pre-employment checks.
Equality, diversity & inclusion
Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People is committed to improving the quality of its services to all people, irrespective of race/ethnicity, disability, gender, religion or belief, age, or sexual orientation. Our objective is to deliver high quality services that are accessible, responsive, and appropriate to meet the diverse needs of different groups and individuals. As such, we will continue to take action to ensure that staff and volunteers employed by Rainbows Hospice are culturally aware and treat every person with dignity, respect, and fairness, in a way that is sensitively responsive to differences and similarities. Unlawful discrimination and other forms of exclusion have no place within Rainbows Hospice.
About us
Rainbows cares for hundreds of families every year who have a baby, child or young person with a serious or terminal illness that means that their lives will be shorter than most.
We've been providing the highest level of professional holistic care and emotional support to babies, children, young people and their families since 1994. Our incredible team help to relieve symptoms, improve quality of life, and support their families to make the most of every precious moment, during life, through bereavement and beyond.
Our aim is to support every one of the thousands of babies, children and young people in the East Midlands, with a terminal or serious illness. To do this we've made it easier to access our services - wherever families are in our region. So, as well as providing end-of-life, short break care and bereavement support at our hospice, we also offer care and support at the point of need. Whether at our Lark Rise hospice, in the community, in hospital, or at home.
Simply put, we're here to brighten short lives, and support families, wherever they are. #J-18808-Ljbffr