Hospice Nurse Grade 5 JD - Please click here to view/download the Job Description
Were expanding our team and are looking for more Nurses to join our charity.
Youll be joining an award-winning, certified Outstanding team, who do all they can to empower children and families to experience as much life as possible.
As a member of the Noahs Ark Nurse and Specialist Care team, youll be encouraged to put the experience of children and families at the heart of all you do. As well as understanding their care needs, youll get to know whats important to each child you support whether its knowing what their favorite song to listen to is, how they like to play, or what sooths them when they are sad - at Noahs Ark its so important that each child is treated as an individual. Youll focus on what children can do, rather than their limitations, and will support them to experience things they may never have thought possible.
And by providing care for children, either at our state-of-the art building, The Ark, or out in the community, youll be allowing parents and cares to take some time for themselves. The hours of care youll provide will make a huge difference, allowing them to live life outside of their childs condition. By creating this time, youll be creating choice something which can feel impossible for the families we support.
Your commitment to children and families will continue through to end-of-life care. Youll be a guiding reassuring presence for families and working with other healthcare professionals to create as much comfort as possible. Youll be providing essential symptom management to help to bring comfort. During this time youll continue to treat each child and family as individual by taking the time to understand what is important to them. Youll help to create memories to enable as good a death as possible.
A natural and experienced leader, youll deliver high quality and effective training to other members of the team and family members
ABOUT YOU
Youll be an experienced Nurse (Band 5 equivalent) with excellent clinical and communication skills. Youll be able to work collaboratively with experience leading a multi-skilled team, or can demonstrable experience of leadership with the support from a lead nurse.
Aside from experience, we look for individuals who share our core values of kindness, excellence and courage. Well support you to go above and beyond to be there for the children and families we support we ask that you share this mission with us.
Youll thrive working autonomously, confident in your ability to deliver care on your own out in the community. Youll know the value of collaboration, and will work closely with your team members, other healthcare professionals and the families you support to provide the very best care.
Creativity and play will be central to your approach to care, with the ability to build long-term relationships with the children and families you care for.
Youll be qualified in Childrens Nursing and have completed your nursing preceptorship.
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In addition, an enhanced DBS disclosure with Child Barring will be required for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction, ongoing support and supervision, reflect our commitment to safeguarding the families we support.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We believe that everyone deserves to be treated equally. It is central to our charities mission. We ensure that no member of staff, or job applicant, is treated less favourably because of their sex, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, nationality, ethic or national origin, religion, disability, gender identity or marital status.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will guarantee an interview to those candidates with a disability if they meet the minimum requirements of the role.
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from groups who are currently under-represented in our staff.
Please note: We are only accepting direct applications for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we kindly advise you to submit your application as early as possible..
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