Together for Short Lives
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Post date
11 November 2024
Closing date
13 December 2024
Location
Lark Rise, Loughborough, LE11 2HS
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 Per annum Band 5
Hours
37.5
Contact email
recruitment@rainbows.co.uk

Join Rainbows Hospice as a Band 5 Nurse in Loughborough and become a specialist in end-of-life and palliative care, making a meaningful impact each day. Here, you’ll gain unique expertise, continuous professional development, and the chance to be part of a compassionate team dedicated to exceptional care for babies, children, young people and their families.

If you can demonstrate experience working with babies, children and young people with complex care needs and are passionate about providing a high standard of nursing care in a family led environment, we would like to hear from you.

We’re seeking skilled Band 5 Nurses to join our valued clinical care team. You’ll be part of a vibrant, multidisciplinary team, providing 1:1 nursing care, symptom management, palliative and end-of-life support, and planned short breaks at the hospice. Working alongside Music Therapists, Complementary Therapists, and our Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) team, you’ll contribute to our holistic approach to care in an environment that encourages personal and professional growth.

Rainbows Hospice is available for families all year, 24 hours a day, we therefore operate on a shift basis to provide the best possible service.

This is a rolling advert, and you will be contacted if you have been shortlisted.

Benefits of working at Rainbows:

In addition to Agenda for Change pay scales, we offer a range of benefits including:
• Opportunity for current NHS pension scheme members to transfer their membership
• Free car parking on site at the Hospice
• Shift enhancements
• Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
• Established Training programme that will enable you to comply with NMC registration
• Specialist training and development opportunities and working within a supportive team which specialist knowledge
• Time to care for patients: Each baby, child and young person has 1:1 care
• Bupa healthcare cashback plan
• Affordable freshly cooked meals whilst on shift at the Hospice
• Free Tea, Coffee and Fruit whilst on shift at the Hospice
• Free access to Health Assured employee assistance programme
• Wellbeing support and access to Mental Health First Aiders
• Unofficial benefits: Fun events like Total Wipe Out, All staff away days, Guest visitors

About the Role

As a Rainbows Band 5 nurse you’ll be responsible for supporting the Deputy Lead Nurse Shift Coordinator in planning and implementing care for children and young people, with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, providing symptom management, palliative and end of life care on a 1:1 basis within the hospice.

You will be responsible for:
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care of children and young people in partnership with them and their parents/guardians
• Providing excellent short break, palliative, and end of life care at Rainbows in a family centered environment in conjunction with all members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Ensuring all procedures are carried out in accordance with local and national policies in force within the Hospice
• Further responsibilities in the role of a Band 5 Nurse at Rainbows, can be found by downloading the Job Description.

Requirements:
As an experienced Band 5 Nurse at Rainbows, you’ll need to be qualified RSCN/RN (Child Branch)/RNLD/RNCB with post registration experience, relevant placement experience or pre-nurse training care experience. Experience with babies, children and/or young people (0-25 years) with complex needs is also required for the role.

Palliative care experience is desirable; however specialist training and development opportunities will be provided. Excellent communication skills and the ability to demonstrate high standards of clinical care are essential. Further requirements can be found by downloading the Person Specification.

For more information about this role, or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Zena Barratt, Lead Nurse for Clinical Operations, on zena.barratt@rainbows.co.uk

To apply for the role please click ‘apply now’ to complete an online application form. If you require an alternative method of applying or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments further, please contact the people team at recruitment@rainbows.co.uk

This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and barring Service Check) and pre-employment checks.

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