Are you passionate about children and young people with complex health needs, life limiting conditions and have an interest and/or experience in palliative and end life care and working with families. This unique role will enable you, a talented nurse, to act as a professional role model and an ambassador of Helen & Douglas House. Now is the time to join an exciting specialty filled with never ending opportunity!
You will be an RNC/RSCN/RNLD with paediatric experience, or an RGN (adult nurse) with significant experience and clinical competencies achieved working with babies, children, and young people, looking for a flexible opportunity to provide quality care to babies, children, and young people with palliative and complex care needs.
If you can conduct yourself with dignity and calm to others in complex, emotive situations, we would love to hear from you! We only have one chance to get it right at the end of someone's life, and we're committed to ensuring that our palliative care is exemplary.
A typical day as a Registered Nurse is going to involve providing specialist support to help children and their families when they are at their most vulnerable. Advocacy will be key in developing the nurse-patient relationship, helping to build trust, and thereby improving the quality of care you provide. You will focus on comfort and quality of life, putting the children, young people and their family first. The hospice strives to provide individualised care based on each child's unique needs to promote a restful and relaxed environment.
Helen & Douglas House is a registered hospice charity based in Oxford, providing palliative, respite, end-of-life and bereavement care to life-limited children and their families. We foster a climate where team members feel able to openly question, debate and appropriately challenge their own and the practice of others; as such, we welcome new ideas and strive to constantly improve our delivery of care to our patients. Our Care Team consists of talented individuals who share the passion of improving the lives of seriously unwell children and their families through prevention and relief of suffering by means of impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychological, and spiritual.
In order to facilitate clinical and holistic care, you will be working a variety of shifts across a rota including days, evenings and weekends. Full-time and part-time hours considered, with a minimum of 3 days per week.
Please note that everyone working for Helen & Douglas House are required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Helen & Douglas House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer and value the benefits of a diverse workforce. We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community.