Clinical Nurse Specialist

Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging opportunity where your work really matters? If so, Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice may be the place for you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our nurse-led symptom management team, to provide excellent palliative and end of life care to the babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions. We have a catchment area covering, South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire and parts of North Lincolnshire.

As part of the symptom management team, you will be working alongside advanced nurse practitioners and other clinical nurse specialists to provide symptom management and advance care planning.

A career at Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice is an incredibly rewarding one as you can make a real difference to the lives of children with life limiting conditions and families. We seize every opportunity to create memories to treasure for every child and their family.

Main duties and responsibilities

The successful candidate will work both within the community and hospice, providing support to children, their families and colleagues, working alongside the advanced nurse practitioners, providing specialist nursing care to children and young people with life limiting conditions, as an integral part of the hospice interdisciplinary care team.

Work alongside colleagues to provide 24-hour care, 7 days per week through an on-call service.

Sit on the hospice care leadership team.

Contribute to governance, including the writing of policies, procedures, audit and research and delivering of training and education.

To fulfil the role effectively, you will be enthusiastic with a commitment to developing the knowledge and skills of not only yourself but also other care staff and agencies we work in partnership with.

The successful candidate will be an independent non-medical prescriber or will be willing to undertake the course.

About us

At Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, we care for children and young adults with life limiting conditions. We are currently supporting approx. 300 families both in hospice and community.
We offer a wide range of support services which are bespoke to each family. This includes, end of life care, symptom management, short breaks (both in hospice and community), counselling, family support, therapies and much more.

In return, we can offer you a fantastic working environment and the following benefits:

• 33 days’ annual leave including bank holidays (pro rata) – with the option to buy and sell
• Sick pay – following 6-month probationary period
• Health Care Cash Back Scheme
• Free counselling sessions
• Enhanced Statutory maternity pay
• Enhanced Statutory paternity pay
• Enhanced parental bereavement leave
• Compassionate leave
• Training & Development
• Investment in your wellbeing
• Volunteering & shadowing days
• Free parking on main site
• Free drinks and subsidised meals

For more information or to apply for this role, please follow the link here.