Band 6 Nurse

TN United Kingdom; Guildford; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Shooting Star Children’s Hospices is seeking an experienced nurse to join their In-House Care Team. The role involves leading care for children with life-limiting conditions, managing shifts, and ensuring high-quality support. Ideal candidates will have relevant nursing qualifications and experience in complex care settings.

Benefits

NHS Pension Scheme with employer contributions

27 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

2 weeks paid sabbatical leave after 5, 10, and 15 years

Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave pay

Flexible working arrangements

Reimbursed professional membership fees

Employee Assistance Programme

Mindfulness sessions

Cycle to work scheme

Free meals and fruit at the site

Qualifications

• Recent experience of working as a Band 5/6 in a clinical setting.
• Experience with children who have complex care needs and/or a palliative diagnosis.
• Ability to think on your feet in a fast-paced clinical environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the in-house hospice team to provide high-quality care.
• Manage shift organization and complex priorities.
• Provide nursing advice to support individualised care.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Nursing Care

Education

RN Child/Learning Disabilities or Adult NMC registration

Job description

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Salary: £39,179 - £44,747 plus geographical allowance and enhancements for unsocial hours

Team: In-House Care Team

Hours:22.5-37.5hrs across the 7-day week

About Shooting Star Children’s Hospices

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join our team at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.

Shooting Star Children’s Hospices provides specialist care and support to families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or who have been bereaved. Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we support families across Surrey, north-west London and south-west London from diagnosis to end of life and throughout bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical care.

At the heart of what we do are our dedicated staff; their exceptional commitment and professionalism means every family has the opportunity to make every moment count.

It’s a great time to join Shooting Star Children’s Hospices as we have recently increased our inpatient capacity for end of life care and expanded our bereavement offer to support all families in Surrey and to the West of London whose child has died.

About the role

You will be

• Be a professional role model, leading and coordinating the in-house hospice team to provide safe, high-quality care to children, young people and their families
• Take responsibility and accountability for shift management and organisation of the in-hospice care. This involves managing a wide range of complex and sometimes conflicting priorities
• Provide nursing advice organisational wide to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to children / young people and families in collaboration with the multi professional team
• Take responsibility for standards of cleanliness within the clinical area during your shift
• Facilitate the development of all junior staff within the team
• Provide an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of child/young person care through research and evidence-based practice
• To undertake delegated responsibility for the hospice in the absence of the Lead Nurses
• To be part of the Clinical On-Call Rota (Providing out of hours support for the In-House Team)

About you

This role requires the successful candidate to hold a RN Child/Learning Disabilities or Adult NMC registration.

To have recent experience of working as a Band 5/6 in a clinical setting.

Ideally you will have experience of working with children who have complex care needs and/or a palliative diagnosis.

You will also have an ability to think on your feet and problem solve in a fast-paced clinical environment.

This role is part of the 24/7 clinical on-call rota

Please see the attached job description for more information about this opportunity at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.

What we offer

In return you will receive a competitive salary along with a range of benefits, which include:

• NHS Pension Scheme (for eligible employees) or our stakeholder pension scheme, with up to 7% employer contributions
  
  Annual leave
• 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising with length of service
• 2 weeks paid sabbatical leave after 5, 10 and 15 years’ service
  
  Contractual benefits
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave pay
• Flexible working arrangements
• Reimbursed professional membership fees
• Eye care
• Blue Light discount card
  
  Health and wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Occupational Health
• Mindfulness sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Nutritionally balanced meals at Christopher’s (free for employees) and free fruit at our Hampton site

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment. Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS Check.

Our recruitment checks, induction and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding the families we support.


Equality, diversity and inclusion

Shooting Star Children’s Hospice is committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that getting things right is critical for us to live our organisation’s values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.

We are always trying to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equal. Our vision is for Shooting Star Children’s Hospice to be a place where people of all backgrounds, groups and communities feel welcomed to work and volunteer.

Please contact kif you have any questions about this role.

To apply, please complete an outlining how your experience meets the criteria set out in the person specification.