# Band 6 Nurse

**Company**: Haven House Children’s Hospice
**Location**: Woodford Green
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £39959.00 to £48117.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 6 Nurse to join our team at Haven House Children's Hospice in Woodford Green, United Kingdom. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing symptom management, palliative and end-of-life care to babies, children, young people and their families.

The demand for the outstanding care Haven House provides is increasing and more vital than ever. We need your expertise to provide compassionate care and create special memories. As a valued member of the integrated clinical care team, you will support the wider team to ensure high standards of holistic care are delivered.

In return, we will support your wellbeing and offer you a learning environment to develop your skills and competencies in paediatric palliative care, supported by our Education Team.

**Main duties of the job**

- Work as part of the Integrated Care Team providing symptom management, palliative and end-of-life care, as well as planned and emergency short breaks at the hospice, home and support BCYP in hospitals.

- Take on a lead role to support work required to ensure high standards of care are delivered and maintained.

- Work a variety of shifts as the hospice provides care services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

**Core Responsibilities**

- Clinical:

+ Support the team with the implementation of high-quality services including delivering direct care to babies, children, young people and their families.   + Co-ordinate the shift/caseload work, ensuring safe, effective and responsive delivery of individualised care.   + Provide high-quality nursing care for children and young people who have palliative care needs in the hospice and community.   + Contribute to the care plans and assessments required to ensure the child/young person receives safe and effective care.   + Be fully conversant with and contribute to all clinical guidelines, policies and procedures of Haven House.

- Other duties:

+ Promote and live the Haven House values of Compassionate, Professional, Respectful and Safe.   + Work with colleagues across the hospice as part of the Haven House One Team approach fostering collaboration across all care disciplines, ensuring integrated, child-centred care.

**Benefits**

- Retention of your NHS pension (if applicable and subject to meeting NHS criteria)

- Agenda for Change long service holiday (if applicable)

- Relocation Allowance (if eligible)

- Pension Scheme (employer matching up to 7%)

- Free on-site parking

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Eye Care voucher scheme

- Cycle to work scheme

- Blue Light Card

- Access to Cavell Nurses

The salary for this role is £39,959 to £48,117 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Ability to teach clinical skills to young people/parents/care staff
- Ability to advocate for young adults and their families
- Ability to lead and work as part of a team
- Ability to communicate well with CYP and multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to prioritise workload and to be flexible to changing demands
- IT/Computer literate: able to word process and use basic spreadsheets
- IV Competent
- Flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities

### Nice to have
- ITechnical paediatric nursing skills such as care of enteral feeding tubes, tracheostomies, emergency medication for seizures etc.
- LTV Competent
- Parenteral Nutrition competent

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