Registered Nurse (Child) Band 6

Job Summary

Alchemy MedForce is partnering with a palliative care facility who are seeking an experienced Band 6 Registered Nurse (Child) to join their team.

The Registered Children’s Nurse will partner with the nursing team to ensure holistic end-of-life care services not limited to line management, care planning management and palliative care plans.

Key duties of the role include:

• Provide child end-of-life and post-death nursing care as per the agreed care plan, both within the facility and in the community 
• Carry out care assessment and planning to enable symptoms to be successfully managed
• Managing palliative care referrals, conducting care assessments and attending pathway meetings
• Operating in line with the facilities nursing policies and procedures
• Consistently promote safeguarding and high-quality standards of care
• Working effectively as a nursing team, supporting each other to build a safe and high standard palliative care team
• Provide ongoing clinical guidance and support to other nursing staff, health care support workers and care, assistants, as required 
• Supporting recruitment management, appraisals and staff supervisory responsibilities 
• Consistently ensuring that the unit is working according to the NMC code of professional conduct
• Stay knowledge on best practice, safeguarding and legislation about children’s palliative care and health
• Carry out risk management, ensuring risks are identified and mitigated to ensure successful safeguarding 
• Participate in out of hours clinical on-call service when required

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

• Qualified and experienced as a Band 6 or above RN Child / RSCN
• Extensive experience within child health care settings delivering high-quality delivering care to children
• Highly organised, excellent organisation skills, strong communication skills both verbal and written 
• Experience of working in a palliative care service would be advantageous but is not essential 
• Ability to problem-solve and undertake a wide range of clinical tasks
• Successfully able to work independently and also capable of effective nursing team working
• Flexibility to travel and work outside normal working hours

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