Band 6 Nurse

The Care Teams are the heart of our organisation, consisting of dedicated nurses, healthcare assistants, and support staff. They provide compassionate and personalised care to children with life-limiting conditions, focusing on pain management, symptom control, and emotional support for both the child and their family. The Care Teams works closely with medical professionals to ensure holistic care is tailored to each child's needs., Be a professional role model, leading and coordinating the in-house hospice team to provide safe, high quality care to children, young people and their families

Take responsibility and accountability for shift management and organisation of the in-hospice care. This involves managing a wide range of complex and sometimes conflicting priorities

Provide nursing advice organisational wide to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to children / young people and families in collaboration with the multi professional team

Take responsibility for standards of cleanliness within the clinical area during your shift

Facilitate the development of all junior staff within the team

Provide an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of child/young person care through research and evidence based practice

To undertake delegated responsibility for the hospice in the absence of the Lead Nurses

To be part of the Clinical On-Call Rota (Providing out of hours support for the In-House Team)

Shooting Star Childrens Hospices provides specialist care and support to families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or who have been bereaved. Rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission, we support families across Surrey, north-west London and south-west London from diagnosis to end of life and throughout bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical care.

Our specialist care and support is free of charge to families and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It includes specialist nursing in the community, symptom management and pain relief, overnight respite stays, end-of-life care, specialist bereavement care and a comprehensive range of therapies, groups and clinics for the whole family.

At the heart of what we do are our dedicated staff; their exceptional commitment and professionalism means every family has the opportunity to make every moment count.

It costs £10 million a year to run Shooting Star Childrens Hospices. Just 30% of our funding comes from the government, so we rely on our supporters generosity to keep the service running. We employ 175 members of staff, including 98 nursing and medical staff, and support around 700 families.