Senior Paediatric Palliative Care Nurse Band 6

Location: Richard House Children’s Hospice, London, E16 3RG
Salary: £42,471- £50,364 (AFC) pro rata plus unsocial hours supplements
Hours: Full and part time available
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

Are you looking to provide holistic, family-centred, quality care? Are you an RNC or RNA/RNLD with paediatric experience looking to work on a one to one care basis and build your experience in palliative and end of life care? We are recruiting for Senior Paediatric Palliative Care Nurse (Band 6) to help lead and be part of our Care team at our peaceful, woodland hospice.

This is a wonderful opportunity to work in partnership with hospitals and community nursing teams to deliver care to a range of children and young people with a variety of complex health conditions. As well as providing clinical care, you will also develop play and recreational activities to provide appropriate stimulation to the children in your care. We will support you in your learning and development and there is the potential to gain experience in outreach work.

As a Senior Nurse you will be a team leader to a small group of nurses and HCAs (Play and Care Workers), taking responsibility for line management. You will lead your team in acting as key workers to a small caseload of service users and act in a link role allocated to the team, for example Infection Control or Clinical Audits. You will be managing shifts, providing leadership to the team to ensure that all care is delivered in accordance with Richard House policies and procedures.

We’re looking for someone who is empathetic and resilient, can work under pressure, and can communicate sensitively with our families and colleagues. Experience managing junior nurses and leading shifts is essential. It would also be great if you have a mentorship qualification and experience dealing with children with challenging behaviour.

Based in the multi-cultural borough of Newham, we operate a vital 24/7 service. Shifts are 11.5 hours across weekdays and weekends. We require applicants to be available to work weekday shifts as well as weeknights, weekends and bank holidays.

Richard House is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Richard House is not authorised to sponsor overseas workers, you will need to have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits:

• Annual holiday allowance of 27 days, increasing to 29 days after five years’ service
• Pension scheme offering 7% employer’s and 3% employee’s contribution
• Option to continue existing NHS pension (subject to meeting criteria)
• Employee assistance programme
• Death in service scheme
• Occupational sick pay scheme
• Enhanced maternity pay scheme
• Flexible working
• A supportive team with a commitment to CPD
• Unsocial hours benefit (certain Care positions only)

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