Specialist Nurse

Children'S Hospices Across Scotland; Kinross; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Enhanced unsocial hours pay

Generous annual leave

Free on-site parking

Career development opportunities

Wellbeing tools

Multidisciplinary team

Job summary

Children's Hospices Across Scotland is seeking a CHAS at Home Specialist Nurse to deliver expert paediatric palliative care to babies, children and young people and their families. The role combines clinical practice with leadership, education and service development, within a multidisciplinary team.

The post is based at Rachel House, Kinross, with a temporary relocation to Cardenden for 12–18 months from summer 2026. A driving licence and PVG check are required.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with a strong commitment to child and family-centred care.
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience.
• Post-registration experience in paediatric palliative care.
• Ability to work autonomously while valuing teamwork.
• Build trusted relationships with children, families and professionals.
• Excellent clinical judgement in complex, changing situations.
• Compassionate, family-centred approach to care.
• Commitment to leadership, learning and improvement.
• Enthusiasm for shaping the future of children's palliative care.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist paediatric palliative care to children with life-shortening conditions and families.
• Work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team to deliver clinical care.
• Coordinate complex support packages and advise across health, social care and third-sector partners.
• Contribute to leadership, education and service development.

Skills

Registered nurse

Child and family-centred care

Autonomy in practice

Teamwork and collaboration

Clinical judgement

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Job description

Specialist Nurse - Community East

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 stand‑up rota, when this is required.

This post is normally based at Rachel House, Kinross, but will temporarily relocate to Cardenden, for approximately 12–18 months from summer 2026 whilst we rebuild Rachel House. The office space in Cardenden is an approximate 25 minute drive from Rachel House.

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 (where applicable 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,
• Free on‑site parking.
• Commitment to support clinical skills to enable development and support collaborative working across all health and social care settings.

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.