Specialist Nurse

Children'S Hospices Across Scotland; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Enhanced leave up to 40 days

Career development opportunities

Wellbeing resources

Multi-disciplinary team support

Job summary

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) in Aberdeen invites an experienced Specialist Nurse to deliver expert paediatric palliative care in the community. You will work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team, coordinating complex support and guiding care across health, social care and third-sector partners.

You will lead on education, quality improvement and service development, shaping community paediatric palliative care in Scotland.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with compassion for child- and family-centred care.
• Degree level education or equivalent experience.
• Post-registration experience in paediatric palliative care.
• Ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist paediatric palliative care to babies, children and young people.
• Coordinate complex support packages and offer specialist advice across partners.
• Engage in leadership, education, quality improvement and service development.
• Contribute to on-call Paediatric Care Around Dying rota when required.

Skills

Registered nurse

Degree level

Palliative care experience

Autonomous working

Leadership skills

Team collaboration

Clinical judgement

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

Job description

Specialist Nurse - Community, North (Aberdeen)

Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for specialist palliative care and a belief that every child and family should have genuine choice about where they receive care?

Children's palliative care is evolving across Scotland, with increasing opportunities to support babies, children and young people in the place that matters most to them. As a CHAS at Home Specialist Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering expert care, building relationships with families and professionals, and helping to shape the future of community-based paediatric palliative care. This is an exciting opportunity to combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, education and service development, ensuring children and families receive compassionate, high-quality support throughout their journey.

About the role

As a CHAS at Home Specialist Nurse, you will provide specialist paediatric palliative care to babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families. Working autonomously within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will deliver expert clinical care, coordinate complex support packages and provide specialist advice across health, social care and third-sector partnerships.

You will support children and families throughout their palliative care journey, from referral and diagnosis, through periods of stability, deterioration and care around dying, ensuring care is responsive to the goals, wishes and priorities of each child and family. Alongside direct clinical care, you will contribute to leadership, education, quality improvement and service development, helping CHAS continue to deliver innovative, equitable and compassionate care for families across Scotland. You will contribute to a Paediatric Care Around Dying on-call standup rota, when this is required,

About You

To thrive in this role you will:

• Be an experienced registered nurse with a strong commitment to delivering compassionate, child and family-centred care.
• Be educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
• Have a passion for specialist paediatric palliative care and post registration experience of supporting children and young people with complex palliative care needs.
• Confidence to work autonomously whilst knowing the value of collaboration and teamwork.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with children, young people, families and professional partners.
• Excellent clinical judgement and decision-making skills in complex and changing situations.
• A compassionate, family-centred approach that places children and families at the heart of everything you do.
• A commitment to leadership, learning and continuous improvement.
• Enthusiasm for shaping the future of children's palliative care and making a lasting difference to families across Scotland.

Why CHAS

Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.

Our children’s palliative care nurses report great satisfaction in being able to provide high quality nursing care in a supportive team with exciting career development opportunities.

Some of the benefits you can expect to receive from working with CHAS:

• The opportunity to pay into an existing NHS scheme or membership of local government pension scheme
• Enhanced pay for unsocial hours and overtime
• Generous annual leave entitlement (matched to current service-based enhanced entitlement with NHS, up to a maximum of 40 days)
• Ability to offer choice around preferred place of care and support
• Opportunities for further learning and development
• Access to a range of tools to support wellbeing
• The opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes volunteers
• Working within an experienced and supportive team,
• Commitment to support clinical skills to enable development and support collaborative working across all health and social care settings.

To arrange an informal chat, please contact Layenie Grace, Senior Charge Nurse North -

For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment team on 0131 444 3293 or by email at .

This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check (children and adults).

A driving licence and access to a car is essential.

We welcome applications from candidates with transferable skills and diverse backgrounds. If you’re unsure whether you meet all the criteria, please reach out - we’d love to explore how you could be a great fit for CHAS.