• Job Description

  Req#: B0069-NurseMilton6?language=en&page=119&sort=publicationDateDes

  Job summary

  Nurse - Milton, Cambridgeshire CB24 6AB

  *A Full UK Driving License and access to own vehicle is essential for this role*

  Full-Time & Part-Time applicants considered

  - Minimum 24 hours per week

  Welcome Bonus of up to £2,000 eligibility and terms apply.

  Our service is provided in a 24/7, 365 day environment; shifts include weekend & Bank Holidays

  Shift Pattern:

  Our standard shift structure is 12 1/2 hour shifts (includes unpaid break)

  Day Shift - 7:30am-8:00pm

  Night Shift - 7:30pm-8:00am

  Homecare Shift - In the community (Hours vary)

  Enhanced Rates - Weekends, Evenings & Bank Holidays

  +30% Saturdays & Evenings

  +60% Sundays & Bank Holidays

  Competitive on-call rates

  Permanent Contract

  £29,970 - £44,962 FTE per annum, dependent on experience

  Care Salary Band: 5/6

  We are looking for registered Childrens, Adult or Learning Disabilities Nurses who want to work within a multidisciplined team to further their experience or develop skills working in childrens palliative care.

  Main duties of the job

  In our commitment to you, we will provide you with:

  All the training and development required to deliver childrens palliative care including:

  o Bespoke palliative and end of life care, clinical skills and long term ventilation training programmes

  o Support to attend external training opportunities

  o Participation in quality and safety groups

  Regular clinical, safeguarding and management supervision to support your professional development.

  The support you need to enable you to provide safe and effective care and support to the children and their families who use our service.

  Is this the right opportunity for you?

  Are you:

  a highly motivated person who thinks going the extra mile at work is the norm?

  wanting to be part of an enthusiastic, progressive, forward-thinking and professional team?

  aspiring to make a real difference to the lives of babies, children and young people with life-threatening conditions, and their families?

  Please visit our website www.each.org.uk to view the full job description and person specification and to apply.

  If you have any questions, please dont hesitate to contact our Human Resource Department athrinbox@each.org.uk who will put you in contact with the Hospice Team.

  Closing Date:22 June 2025

  About us

  Comprehensive range of benefits:

  Free onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices

  Pool car provided when working in the community

  Employee health cash plan & wellbeing support schemes

  NHS pension - continuation if already contributing

  Enhanced Annual leave Entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays

  Additional holiday purchase scheme

  AVIVA pension package up to 7% Employer Contribution including Life Assurance

  Free eye tests & cycle to work scheme

  East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and young people with life threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

  At EACH we believe in fostering a workplace where every individual feels valued and respected.We are committed to building a culture of inclusion where differences are embraced.We are actively seeking talent from all walks of life, recognising that diversity drives innovation, creativity and success.

  Join us on a journey to create a more inclusive workplace, where everyone has equal opportunities to grow, contribute and succeed. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply for opportunities at EACH and adjustments will be made to facilitate the application and selection process.

  Details

  Date posted

  22 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £29,970 to £44,962 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  EACH1075442

  Job locations

  Childrens Hospice

  Church Lane

  Milton

  Cambridge

  CB24 6AB

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Title: Children's Palliative Care Nurse (Band 5 & 6)

  Responsible to: Team Leader

  Job Summary: Deliver holistic nursing care and support to babies, children and young people with palliative and end of life care needs and their families.

  Lead and co-ordinate shifts and undertake day-to-day operational duties as required.

  You will be required to provide care and occasionally across our other hospice localities.

  Appointment to Band 5 or 6 is commensurate with nursing skills, experience and knowledge.

  Specific Responsibilities:

  1. Deliver safe and effective nursing care involving use of a wide range of clinical skills. For example, clinical assessment and monitoring, intravenous therapy, parenteral nutrition, long-term ventilation and tracheostomy care and support to babies, children and young people whose conditions are stable, unstable, deteriorating and need end of life care.

  2. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet the diverse and individual needs of babies, children, young people and their families, ensuring holistic care provided is family centred, needs led, evidence informed and meets all statutory requirements.

  3. Provide support to the children, young people and family members to promote their resilience and wellbeing, including at the end of life and during bereavement, giving advice on practical issues and undertaking memory making activities, seeking support from wellbeing staff when necessary.

  4. Maintain clinical records using both paper-based and SystmOne electronic care records system in accordance with best practice guidance.

  5. Use clinical judgement and interpret clinical data to inform decision making, in consultation with others, to provide nursing care that meets the complexity of the palliative care needs.

  6. Implement symptom management, escalation and advance care plans, evaluating them in partnership with the children or young people and their families under the direction of a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Matron or Nurse Consultant.

  7. Lead and co-ordinate shifts and undertake day-to-day operational duties as required, including providing the initial response to all accidents, incidents and complaints reported during shifts, ensuring immediate follow up actions are taken as required.

  8. Delegate nursing care to senior care assistants and care assistants following EACH guidelines providing:

  Assessment and ongoing clinical review of the , child or young person's needs and the appropriateness of delegation of care.

  Oversight of practice and responding to queries from the senior care assistants and care assistants delivering care.

  9. Act as a family co-ordinator to designated families, maintaining regular contact with them and actively participating at care co-ordination team and locality multi-professional meetings, ensuring any significant changes identified for designated families are discussed and followed up with any action required.

  10. Attend external multidisciplinary, discharge planning, review and debrief meetings representing EACH to maintain positive and effective communication with other agencies involved with families receiving our services.

  11. Participate in the ongoing development of our care services, including quality and safety initiatives such as audits and evaluations.

  12. Mentor new care staff and students, providing support, training and sharing professional expertise.

  13. Participate in regular management, clinical and safeguarding supervision sessions.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Title: Children's Palliative Care Nurse (Band 5 & 6)

  Responsible to: Team Leader

  Job Summary: Deliver holistic nursing care and support to babies, children and young people with palliative and end of life care needs and their families.

  Lead and co-ordinate shifts and undertake day-to-day operational duties as required.

  You will be required to provide care and occasionally across our other hospice localities.

  Appointment to Band 5 or 6 is commensurate with nursing skills, experience and knowledge.

  Specific Responsibilities:

  1. Deliver safe and effective nursing care involving use of a wide range of clinical skills. For example, clinical assessment and monitoring, intravenous therapy, parenteral nutrition, long-term ventilation and tracheostomy care and support to babies, children and young people whose conditions are stable, unstable, deteriorating and need end of life care.

  2. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet the diverse and individual needs of babies, children, young people and their families, ensuring holistic care provided is family centred, needs led, evidence informed and meets all statutory requirements.

  3. Provide support to the children, young people and family members to promote their resilience and wellbeing, including at the end of life and during bereavement, giving advice on practical issues and undertaking memory making activities, seeking support from wellbeing staff when necessary.

  4. Maintain clinical records using both paper-based and SystmOne electronic care records system in accordance with best practice guidance.

  5. Use clinical judgement and interpret clinical data to inform decision making, in consultation with others, to provide nursing care that meets the complexity of the palliative care needs.

  6. Implement symptom management, escalation and advance care plans, evaluating them in partnership with the children or young people and their families under the direction of a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Matron or Nurse Consultant.

  7. Lead and co-ordinate shifts and undertake day-to-day operational duties as required, including providing the initial response to all accidents, incidents and complaints reported during shifts, ensuring immediate follow up actions are taken as required.

  8. Delegate nursing care to senior care assistants and care assistants following EACH guidelines providing:

  Assessment and ongoing clinical review of the , child or young person's needs and the appropriateness of delegation of care.

  Oversight of practice and responding to queries from the senior care assistants and care assistants delivering care.

  9. Act as a family co-ordinator to designated families, maintaining regular contact with them and actively participating at care co-ordination team and locality multi-professional meetings, ensuring any significant changes identified for designated families are discussed and followed up with any action required.

  10. Attend external multidisciplinary, discharge planning, review and debrief meetings representing EACH to maintain positive and effective communication with other agencies involved with families receiving our services.

  11. Participate in the ongoing development of our care services, including quality and safety initiatives such as audits and evaluations.

  12. Mentor new care staff and students, providing support, training and sharing professional expertise.

  13. Participate in regular management, clinical and safeguarding supervision sessions.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered Nurse (Child, Adult or
  • Learning Disabilities) with
  • demonstrable experience of caring
  • for babies, children or young people
  • in an acute, community, palliative or
  • complex needs setting.
  • Knowledge of current legislation
  • relating to babies, children and young
  • people, including best practice in
  • safeguarding children.
  • Knowledge and understanding of
  • social care.
  • Mentor qualification or willingness to
  • work towards it.
  • Evidence of commitment to own
  • continuing professional development.

  Desirable

  • Degree level qualification.
  • Experience using SystmOne electronic care record system or similar.
  • Management/ leadership training or qualification.

  Other requirements

  Essential

  • Current car
  • essential (EACH has a small pool of
  • cars which can be used when
  • available).
  • Ability to occasionally work in the
  • other hospice localities (Suffolk,
  • Norfolk and Cambridgeshire) to
  • respond to increased demand for
  • complex or end of life care.
  • Ability to participate in the local oncall rota when required to deliver
  • urgent or end of life care in the
  • hospice or community. An on-call
  • allowance is payable for each session.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Post registration experience with
  • demonstrated experience of
  • delivering a wide range of clinical
  • skills, including intravenous therapy.
  • Experience of using clinical
  • judgement to interpret clinical data
  • to inform decision making.
  • Experience of leading and
  • coordinating shifts or teams.
  • Evidence of working within a
  • professional, multi-disciplinary team.
  • Evidence of providing mentorship to
  • staff and students.
  • Ability to undertake physical
  • activities and manual handling to
  • support the varying needs of our
  • service users in line with the
  • requirements of the role.

  Desirable

  • Experience of delivering
  • parenteral nutrition, long-term
  • ventilation and/or tracheostomy
  • care.
  • Experience of working in a
  • palliative care service.
  • Experience of working with
  • learning and physically disabled
  • children and young people with
  • mental health needs.
  • Experience of providing
  • community care services.
  • Experience of managing a small
  • group of staff and resources on a
  • day-to-day basis.
  • Experience of working with
  • volunteers, either personally or
  • professionally.
  • Evidence of participation in
  • research and audit.

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Excellent written, oral
  • communication and interpersonal
  • skills.
  • Able to confidently use IT, including
  • email, Microsoft Office, and video
  • conferencing such as Teams or
  • Zoom.
  • Ability to reflect on practice and
  • propose changes.
  • Ability to use initiative and problem
  • solve.
  • Ability to plan and manage own time.
  • Ability to lead and work as part of a
  • team.
  • Ability to be flexible and able to
  • adapt to change at short notice.
  • Proven track record of reliability.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered Nurse (Child, Adult or
  • Learning Disabilities) with
  • demonstrable experience of caring
  • for babies, children or young people
  • in an acute, community, palliative or
  • complex needs setting.
  • Knowledge of current legislation
  • relating to babies, children and young
  • people, including best practice in
  • safeguarding children.
  • Knowledge and understanding of
  • social care.
  • Mentor qualification or willingness to
  • work towards it.
  • Evidence of commitment to own
  • continuing professional development.

  Desirable

  • Degree level qualification.
  • Experience using SystmOne electronic care record system or similar.
  • Management/ leadership training or qualification.

  Other requirements

  Essential

  • Current car
  • essential (EACH has a small pool of
  • cars which can be used when
  • available).
  • Ability to occasionally work in the
  • other hospice localities (Suffolk,
  • Norfolk and Cambridgeshire) to
  • respond to increased demand for
  • complex or end of life care.
  • Ability to participate in the local oncall rota when required to deliver
  • urgent or end of life care in the
  • hospice or community. An on-call
  • allowance is payable for each session.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Post registration experience with
  • demonstrated experience of
  • delivering a wide range of clinical
  • skills, including intravenous therapy.
  • Experience of using clinical
  • judgement to interpret clinical data
  • to inform decision making.
  • Experience of leading and
  • coordinating shifts or teams.
  • Evidence of working within a
  • professional, multi-disciplinary team.
  • Evidence of providing mentorship to
  • staff and students.
  • Ability to undertake physical
  • activities and manual handling to
  • support the varying needs of our
  • service users in line with the
  • requirements of the role.

  Desirable

  • Experience of delivering
  • parenteral nutrition, long-term
  • ventilation and/or tracheostomy
  • care.
  • Experience of working in a
  • palliative care service.
  • Experience of working with
  • learning and physically disabled
  • children and young people with
  • mental health needs.
  • Experience of providing
  • community care services.
  • Experience of managing a small
  • group of staff and resources on a
  • day-to-day basis.
  • Experience of working with
  • volunteers, either personally or
  • professionally.
  • Evidence of participation in
  • research and audit.

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Excellent written, oral
  • communication and interpersonal
  • skills.
  • Able to confidently use IT, including
  • email, Microsoft Office, and video
  • conferencing such as Teams or
  • Zoom.
  • Ability to reflect on practice and
  • propose changes.
  • Ability to use initiative and problem
  • solve.
  • Ability to plan and manage own time.
  • Ability to lead and work as part of a
  • team.
  • Ability to be flexible and able to
  • adapt to change at short notice.
  • Proven track record of reliability.

  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.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices

  Address

  Childrens Hospice

  Church Lane

  Milton

  Cambridge

  CB24 6AB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.each.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices

  Address

  Childrens Hospice

  Church Lane

  Milton

  Cambridge

  CB24 6AB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.each.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

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