Nurse

East Anglia's Children's Hospices, EACH, are looking for children's, adult or learning disabilities nurses who want to work within a multidisciplined team, to further their experience or develop skills working in children’s palliative care. These positions will be based at The Nook Hospice, Framingham Earl, Norwich and are offered on a permanent full or part-time basis with a minimum expectation of 24 hours per week.

The standard shift structure is 12.5 hour shifts (includes unpaid break, bank holidays and weekends).

Day shift - 7:30am-8:00pm.

Night shift - 7:30pm-8:00am.

Homecare shift - in the community (hours vary).

With enhanced rates as follows;

•  +30% Saturdays and evenings
• +60% Sundays and bank holidays
• Competitive on-call rates

• Deliver safe and effective nursing care involving use of a wide range of clinical skills.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Delegate nursing care to senior care assistants.
• Lead and coordinate shifts.
• Maintain clinical records using both paper-based and SystmOne electronic care records system in accordance with best practice guidance.

EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Is this the right opportunity for you?

Are you:

• a qualified registered nurse  with demonstrable experience of caring for babies, children or young people?
• 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?

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) ensures the best possible quality of life and makes every moment count for children and families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.  Our family-centred approach includes specialist nursing care, symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, therapies, care at end of life, bereavement support, counselling and volunteer services in the family home; all meeting the individual needs of the child, young person and whole family.

In 2020, all three of our hospices; The Nook (Norfolk), The Treehouse (Ipswich) and Milton (Cambridge) were rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission.

Our people are central to our success. We have a talented workforce of staff and volunteers in care, fundraising, retail, facilities, IT, finance, marketing and communications and human resources.

We employ around 400 employees and have more than 1,800 volunteers across the organisation, including 51 shops and a retail distribution centre.