Nurse Band 6
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices
CAMBRIDGE, CB24 6ABView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
8 November 2026
18 days leftJob description
- Current UK NMC registration & full valid driving license are essential for this role* Full-Time & Part-Time applicants considered Minimum 24 hours pe...
In our
commitment to you, we will provide you with:
All the
training and development required to deliver children's palliative care
Including
- Bespoke palliative and end of life care, clinical
skills and long term ventilation training programmes
- Support to attend external training opportunities
- Participation in quality and safety groups
clinical, safeguarding and management supervision to support your professional
development.
The support you
need to enable you to provide safe and effective care and support to the
children and their families who use our service.
Is this the
right opportunity for you?
Committed to
delivering high-quality care and working collaboratively within a
multidisciplinary team?
Wanting to be
part of a professional team who are passionate about improving care for
children and families?
- Aspiring to
make a real difference to the lives of babies, children and young people with
life-threatening conditions, and their families?
Closing
Date: 08/11/26
Interview
Date: 17/11/26
in Learning More Before You Apply?
At EACH, we are committed to ensuring our
recruitment process is accessible to everyone and actively encourage applicants
to ask questions, request reasonable adjustments or have an
informal discussion before submitting an application.
If you'd like to find
out more or make a request, please contact the Recruitment Team by
email hrinbox@each.org.uk or phone 07349
129811.
Deliver holistic
nursing care and support to babies, children and young people with long term complex health
needs, palliative and end of life care needs and their families.
Leading shift, including taking responsibility for
coordinating the team on duty, ensuring that all required care is allocated and
actioned for that shift and to undertake day-to-day operational duties as
required.
You will be required to provide care at the hospice and support families
in their homes and occasionally in other settings.
bespoke training provided, deliver safe and effective nursing care involving
use of a wide range of clinical skills including, but not limited to; clinical
assessment and monitoring, subcutaneous syringe drivers, long-term ventilation
and tracheostomy care.
- Support to babies, children and young people
whose conditions are stable, unstable, deteriorating and in need of end of life
care.
- 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.
- Provide support to the
children, young people and family members to promote their resilience and
wellbeing, including at the end of life and during bereavement, giving advice
on practical issues and undertaking memory making activities, seeking support
from wellbeing staff when necessary.
- Maintain clinical records
using both paper-based and SystmOne electronic care records system in
accordance with best practice guidance.
- Use clinical judgement
and interpret clinical data to inform decision making, in consultation with
others, to provide nursing care that meets the complexity of the palliative
care needs.
- 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, Head of Nursing & Therapies or Head of
Performance & Delivery.
- Lead and co-ordinate
shifts and undertake day-to-day operational duties as required, including
providing the initial response to all accidents, incidents and complaints
reported during shifts, ensuring immediate follow up actions are taken as
required.
- Delegate nursing care to other
nurses, senior care assistants and care assistants following EACH guidelines
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Assessment and ongoing clinical review of the babys, childs or young
persons needs and the appropriateness of delegation of care.
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Oversight of practice and responding to queries from the senior care
assistants and care assistants delivering care.
- Liaise with families
maintaining regular contact with them and actively participating at care
co-ordination team and locality multi-professional meetings, ensuring any
significant changes identified for designated families are discussed and followed
up with any action required.
- Attend external
multidisciplinary, discharge planning, review and debrief meetings representing
EACH to maintain positive and effective communication with other agencies
involved with families receiving our services.
to quality and safety groups and assist with audits and evaluations.
- Mentor new care staff and
students, providing support, training and sharing professional expertise.
- Participate in regular
management, clinical and safeguarding supervision sessions.
- Model and reinforce
EACHs values, providing guidance and feedback to staff who do not align with
these standards.
- Ensure timely completion
of all mandatory training requirements in line with EACH requirements.
Participate
in regular employee meetings and training.
Free
onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices
Pool
car provided when working in the community
Employee
health cash plan & wellbeing support schemes
NHS
pension - continuation if already contributing
Enhanced
Annual leave Entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays
Additional
holiday purchase scheme
AVIVA
pension package up to 7% Employer Contribution including Life Assurance
eye tests & cycle to work scheme
East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares
for children and young people with life threatening conditions across
Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
At EACH we believe in fostering a workplace where every individual
feels valued and respected. We are committed to building a culture of
inclusion where differences are embraced. We are actively seeking talent
from all walks of life, recognising that diversity drives innovation,
creativity and success.
Join us on a journey to create a more inclusive workplace, where
everyone has equal opportunities to grow, contribute and succeed. We welcome
candidates from all backgrounds to apply for opportunities at EACH and
adjustments will be made to facilitate the application and selection
process.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to confidently use IT, including email, Microsoft Office, and video conferencing such as Teams or Zoom.
- Being accountable for decisions made
- Ability to reflect on practice and propose changes.
- Ability to use initiative and problem solve.
- Ability to plan and manage own time, to ensure all patient care is completed and additional tasks as required.
- Demonstrates the ability to adapt quickly to changing tasks and priorities, even at short notice
Other Requirements
Essential
- Current full, valid driving license.
- Ability to occasionally work in the other EACH hospice localities (Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire) to respond to increased demand for complex or end of life care.
- Ability to participate in the EACH local on-call rota, when required, to deliver urgent or end of life care in the hospice or community.
Desirable: - Access to own vehicle; - Experience of driving a wheelchair accessible vehicle
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse (Child, Adult or Learning Disabilities) with demonstrable experience of caring for babies, children or young people in an acute, community, palliative or complex needs setting.
- Knowledge of current legislation relating to babies, children and young people, including best practice in safeguarding children.
- Knowledge and understanding of social care and safeguarding processes and support.
- Mentor qualification
Desirable: - Experience of using SystmOne electronic care record system or similar; - Management/leadership training or qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Shift leading in a care setting.
- Evidence of mentoring team members.
- Post registration experience with demonstrated experience of delivering a wide range of clinical skills, including intravenous therapy.
- Experience of using clinical judgement to interpret clinical data to inform decision making.
- Evidence of working within a professional, multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of providing mentorship to staff and students.
- Ability to undertake physical activities and manual handling to support the varying needs of our service users in line with the requirements of the role.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering parenteral nutrition, long-term ventilation and/or tracheostomy care.
- Experience of working with learning and physically disabled children and young people with mental health needs.
- Experience of providing community care services.
- Experience of managing a small group of staff and resources on a day-to-day basis.
- Experience of working with volunteers, either personally or professionally.
- Evidence of participation in research and audit.
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First seen
20 October 2026
Last checked
21 October 2026
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