Band 6 Nurse

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