Job summary
Richard House Childrens Hospice, based in East London, provides palliative care to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions across London. From the moment a child is diagnosed with a life-limiting, life-threatening or complex health condition everything changes. These changes affect the whole family, which is why we feel it is vital not only to provide care to the child but to support the whole family and to help families choose when, where and how they receive care. Join us and make a real difference.
Main duties of the job
Are you looking to provide holistic, family-centred, quality care? Are you an RNC or RNA/RNLD with paediatric experience looking to work on a one to one care basis and build your experience in palliative and end of life care? We are recruiting for Band 5 Nurses to be part of our Care team at our peaceful, woodland hospice.
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About us
Richard House was Londons first childrens hospice. It was founded by our Life-President Anthea Hare, who was inspired by both her experience as a Paediatric Nurse and helping her parents to look after her severely autistic brother. Our benefits include: annual holiday allowance of 27 days, increasing to 29 days after five years service, pension with the option to continue existing NHS pension, supplemental unsocial hours pay, life assurance, occupational sick pay, enhanced family leave pay schemes, flexible working, employee assistance programme, a supportive team with a commitment to CPD and free parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role overview Are you looking to provide holistic, family-centred, quality care? Are you an RNC or RNA/RNLD with paediatric experience looking to work on a one to one care basis and build your experience in palliative and end of life care? We are recruiting for Band 5 Nurses to be part of our Care team at our peaceful, woodland hospice. This is a wonderful opportunity to deliver care to a range of children and young people with a variety of complex health conditions. As well as providing clinical care, you will also develop play and recreational activities and participate in outings to provide appropriate stimulation to the children in your care.We will support you in your learning and development and there is the potential to develop your clinical skills in areas such as tracheostomy care, long-term ventilation and Hickmann line care. looking for someone who is empathetic and resilient, can work under pressure, and can communicate sensitively with our families and colleagues. The ability to work with families from a variety of different cultural backgrounds is essential. You will be a good-team player and able to be flexible in your approach to work. You will have desirable clinical skills in enteral feeding and seizure management and IV administration. You will also be computer literate with good written English and a keen eye for detail.Based in the multi-cultural borough of Newham, we operate a vital 24/7 service. Shifts are 11.5 hours across weekdays and weekends. We require applicants to be available to work weekday shifts as well as weeknights, weekends and bank holidays. Richard House is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.Skills:RNC/RNLD/RNA with paediatric experience.Knowledge and experience of caring for children and families with complex health needs.Experience in, or willing to develop skills in, caring for children with tracheostomies, ventilator dependent children, intravenous therapy via central lines and complex symptom management plans including subcutaneous infusions of medicine.Open to enthusiastic newly qualified nursesQualifications:RNC/RNLD/RNAwith current NMC registration.Keywords:Nursing PaediatricPalliative Hospice
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role overview Are you looking to provide holistic, family-centred, quality care? Are you an RNC or RNA/RNLD with paediatric experience looking to work on a one to one care basis and build your experience in palliative and end of life care? We are recruiting for Band 5 Nurses to be part of our Care team at our peaceful, woodland hospice. This is a wonderful opportunity to deliver care to a range of children and young people with a variety of complex health conditions. As well as providing clinical care, you will also develop play and recreational activities and participate in outings to provide appropriate stimulation to the children in your care.We will support you in your learning and development and there is the potential to develop your clinical skills in areas such as tracheostomy care, long-term ventilation and Hickmann line care. looking for someone who is empathetic and resilient, can work under pressure, and can communicate sensitively with our families and colleagues. The ability to work with families from a variety of different cultural backgrounds is essential. You will be a good-team player and able to be flexible in your approach to work. You will have desirable clinical skills in enteral feeding and seizure management and IV administration. You will also be computer literate with good written English and a keen eye for detail.Based in the multi-cultural borough of Newham, we operate a vital 24/7 service. Shifts are 11.5 hours across weekdays and weekends. We require applicants to be available to work weekday shifts as well as weeknights, weekends and bank holidays. Richard House is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.Skills:RNC/RNLD/RNA with paediatric experience.Knowledge and experience of caring for children and families with complex health needs.Experience in, or willing to develop skills in, caring for children with tracheostomies, ventilator dependent children, intravenous therapy via central lines and complex symptom management plans including subcutaneous infusions of medicine.Open to enthusiastic newly qualified nursesQualifications:RNC/RNLD/RNAwith current NMC registration.Keywords:Nursing PaediatricPalliative Hospice
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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
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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).
