Specialist Nurse - Paediatric Pain Service

NHS; Town of Oxford; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Oxford is seeking a qualified Specialist Nurse for their Paediatric Pain Service. This role focuses on providing high-quality pain management for children, encompassing both inpatient and potential outpatient services. The ideal candidate will be a 1st level registered nurse with strong skills in pain management, team leadership, and a commitment to ongoing professional development. This role offers an opportunity to work within a compassionate team dedicated to delivering excellent care.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Applicants must have a valid registration as a nurse for children.
• Evidence of postgraduate study competencies is essential.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized pain management advice to patients.
• Independently assess and develop patient care plans.
• Assist in educational development programs.

Skills

Child Nursing

Pain Management

Team Leadership

Effective Communication

Clinical Governance Knowledge

Education

1st Level Registered Nurse (Child)

Leadership Course or Qualification

Level 7 MSc related to Pain Services

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Specialist Nurse - Paediatric Pain Service

The closing date is 11 February 2026

We are looking for a qualified registered nurse (child) to become a specialist nurse with our regional pain service for children at Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. If you would like to further expertise in paediatric pain management and deliver excellent care to children, this role might be ideal for you. The service runs weekdays from 8am to 4pm. Please contact us to arrange an informal visit or to help with any questions you might have.

Main duties of the job

To actively participate in the development and provision of the inpatient paediatric Pain Service across the Trust, through evidence-based practice. The role will encompass management of all aspects of acute and chronic pain with the potential of expanding into out‑patient services as the role and service develops.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles.

Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Job responsibilities

• To provide high quality, effective, individualised pain management advice to all patients that is compassionate and caring.
• To independently assess patients care needs and develop, implement, and evaluate them with supervision if required.
• To assist in the development and continuation of training/education programmes.
• To assist in the development and continuation of audit and research projects.
• To deputise for the Senior Specialist Nurse (SSN) when required, for example due to staff shortages or as part of their continued professional development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 1st level registered nurse (child)
• Demonstrable evidence of ability to achieve post-graduate study at Level 6 or 7 study.
• First level degree (HEI Level 5 or 6) in undergraduate base profession
• Supervision, Mentoring or Facilitating Workplace Learning Qualification
• Leadership Course or Qualification
• Completed or completing Level 7 MSc, relevant to pain services or willing to undertake

Technical IM&T skills

• Computer literate with experience of working with Microsoft Office packages
• Advanced keyboard skills, to ensure fluent documentation.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates knowledge or transferrable skills within speciality of the recruiting area for the role
• Awareness of clinical governance issues and measures of quality
• Experience of clinical governance practices, audit, service evaluation or quality improvement in clinical practice
• Experience of team leadership ability or management skills
• Experience of applying research evidence to own clinical practice

Personal skills

• Commitment to studying for any required post-graduate training needs identified.
• Commitment to evidencing own professional development, capabilities and competency development via work-based assessments and use of a portfolio.
• Willingness to engage in clinical supervision to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours across the breadth of the four pillars of practice
• Evidence of effective team working as part of a multi-disciplinary professional team
• Ability to recognise own limitations, working within scope of practice, acting on feedback from clinical supervisors when required.
• Evidence of delivering educational teaching and associated evaluations, internally and/or externally to the organisation
• Ability to undertake clinical audits or service evaluations
• Demonstrates a clear vision of the role in developing the clinical service
• Willingness and enthusiasm towards working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in delivering care
• Conducts themselves in an inclusive, professional manner at all times
• Aligned to the Trust values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust