Registered Childrens/LD Nurse

Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A caring hospice organization in Coventry seeks a Registered Nurse specializing in paediatric palliative care. You will lead a team providing 1:1 care to children and their families, ensuring a high standard of care in a professional environment. A minimum of 1 year of experience in nursing and a commitment to holistic family-centered care are essential. Join us for an opportunity to make a difference and enjoy generous benefits.

Benefits

27 days Annual Leave plus 8 Bank Holidays

Personal Training Budget

Free on-site Parking

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 years post-registration experience required.
• Experience in paediatric palliative care and support for families.
• Ability to manage a team and follow NMC Code.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialised respite and palliative care.
• Support junior staff and ensure high quality care.
• Lead by example and ensure professional standards.

Skills

Caring and approachable

Good interpersonal skills

Ability to work under pressure

Problem solving and decision-making skills

Education

Nursing qualification (post-registration)

Job description

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:

• 27 days Annual Leave plus 8 Bank Holidays, Guaranteed leave for Christmas and New Year period
• Personal Training Budget
• 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 carein 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 childrenand families who access the service receive holistic family-centred care.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job

Take charge on each clinical shift within a nurse led unit ensuring that staff are supported withand 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 alltimes.

There is an on-call element to this role

Person Specification

Other

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

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting and signing off students.

Attributes

• 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
• Ability to deal with difficult situations.

Skills Knowledges and Competencies

• Enthusiastic and motivated with a good conscientious attitude.
• Flexibility to meet service demands.
• A wide range of nursing skills and willingness to work towards full
• competence in clinical skills.
• Aware of responsibilities around safeguarding of children and adults.
• Use of research-based practice.
• Ability to use initiative and work unsupervised.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work within a team setting.
• Commitment to your own professional development.
• Experience of paediatric palliative care and supporting families who have
• experienced loss or bereavement
• Awareness of the skills, interactions and models that underpin effective
• communication with children who have life limiting and life threatening conditions and their families.
• Experience of working for a charitable organisation.

Experience

• Minimum of 1 years post-registration experience
• Experience as nurse in charge/co-ordinating a team.
• Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code
• Experience of working with children and families with complex needs and life limiting, life threatening illnesses.

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.