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Registered Childrens/LD Nurse

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About us

Zoes Place Baby Hospice is nurse-led, providing 24-hour short breaks and end of life support for babies and children up to the age of six who have life limiting and life-threatening complex needs

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and wanting to develop your clinical and leadership skills within the specialised area of paediatric palliative care? Are you looking for a role which enables you to provide 1:1 care to amazing children and their families and an opportunity to make a difference? If you would you like to work in a professional supportive environment where quality and family centred philosophy are paramount, then look no further. Benefits of joining our team are:

  • Excellent work life balance
  • 27 days Annual Leave plus 8 Bank Holidays, Guaranteed leave for Christmas and New Year period
  • Shift enhancements for weekends/nights/bank holiday shifts
  • Annual NMC fees paid
  • Personal Training Budget
  • Paid Breaks
  • Free on-site Parking

Main duties of the job

The Registered Nurse will work as part of a team providing specialised respite and palliative care, advising and supporting junior staff and care assistants to facilitate high quality, individualised care in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team. They will provide a safe, caring, effective, responsive and well-led service to the families who access the hospice, to ensure that the children and families who access the service receive holistic family-centred care.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job

Take charge on each clinical shift within a nurse led unit ensuring that staff are supported with and competent to carry out their workload.

Lead by example, role modelling high standards that reflect best practice guidelines, organisational policies and the hospice values.

Ensure good time management and punctuality and maintain a professional appearance at all times.

There is an on-call element to this role

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Basic understanding of clinical governance and ability to apply this to practice.
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rota

Qualifications

Essential

  • RSCN / Child Branch /Learning disability

Desirable

  • Experience of supporting and signing off students.

Attributes

Essential

  • Caring and approachable.
  • Good interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to provide holistic care.
  • Ability to follow policies and procedures.
  • Ability to follow instructions from senior members of the team.
  • Ability to work shifts including nights and weekends.
  • Reliable, punctual and organised.
  • Demonstrate commitment to equal opportunities.
  • Ability to maintain professional boundaries.
  • Aware of responsibilities in relation to data protection and confidentiality.
  • Ability to work under pressure and tolerate stress within themselves and others

Desirable

  • Ability to deal with difficult situations.

Hours: Full Time

Salary: £32,234 to £37,108 a year

Based at: Zoe's Place Baby Hospice Middlesbrough

Responsible to: Head of Care

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