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Are you a compassionate and experienced community nurse leader ready to take the next step in your career? Community support for children and families is evolving and growing rapidly, and home is increasingly becoming families preferred place of care. The addition of a third Senior Charge Nurse (SCN) community role within CHAS demonstrates our commitment to supporting this need and providing leadership as services develop and we work towards transforming the experience of children’s palliative care across Scotland.
About the Role
As a Senior Charge Nurse, you’ll be a visible leader, responsible for the coordination and delivery of safe, high-quality, holistic, person-centred care for children and young people with life-shortening conditions. You’ll lead clinical practice, enhance patient experience, manage team performance, and contribute to CHAS’s strategic goals. You’ll also participate in our nurse on-call rota and hold the role of registered manager under Care Inspectorate regulations.
“Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.”
About You
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:
- Paediatric Nursing Degree / Registered Nurse (Child), Registered Nurse (Learning Disability) (Master’s level study is an advantage)
- Extensive experience in senior nursing roles (NHS Band 6 or above) (Community experience an advantage)
- Expertise in children’s palliative and end-of-life care
- Proven leadership and service development experience
- Strong clinical skills in paediatric complex care
- Track record of supporting change management in teams
- A passion for quality improvement and collaborative working
Why CHAS?
Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.
Our children’s palliative care nurses report great satisfaction in being able to provide high quality nursing care in a supportive team with exciting career development opportunities.
Some of the benefits you can expect to receive from working with CHAS:
- The opportunity to pay into an existing NHS scheme or membership of local government pension scheme
- Enhanced pay for unsocial hours and overtime
- Generous annual leave entitlement (matched to current service-based enhanced entitlement with NHS, up to a maximum of 40 days)
- Ability to offer choice around preferred place of care and support
- Opportunities for further learning and development
- Access to a range of tools to support wellbeing
- The opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes volunteers
- Working within an experienced and supportive team,
- Free on-site parking.
- Commitment to support clinical skills to enable development and support collaborative working across all health and social care settings.
Pioneer Youth Minister
- Full time
- £29,000 – £33,000
- On site: Kinross, with outreach across Kinross-shire (flexible working considered)
- Closing 24th April 2026
About KYTHE
Kinross-shire Youth Enterprise (KYTHE), a dynamic Christian youthwork a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering young people in Kinross-shire to reach their full potential. They firmly believe in the strength of community partnerships, working together with local schools, churches, and government bodies to deliver life enhancing services to the youth of the area. Their comprehensive offerings include health support, youth band activities, arts workshop, and a holiday football camp, just to name a few.
At KYTHE, their doors are wide open to young people of all backgrounds, irrespective of their beliefs, ethnicities, genders, abilities, or orientations. They come to KYTHE to seek a path to self-discovery, inspiration, and skills development. We provide them not only with valuable skills but also with a supportive network of new friends. They nurture the young people’s mental health, well-being, and self-esteem, empowering them to find their purpose and a profound sense of belonging. Ther mission is to help these incredible young individuals succeed in leading fulfilled lives, adapt to challenges, thrive, and grow.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a committed and spiritually mature Christian leader to develop and pioneer faith-based youth work across Kinross-shire.
Working as part of the leadership team, you will collaborate closely with the Head of Youth Work, Kinross-shire Parish Church and other local congregations to maintain and grow meaningful opportunities for young people to explore the Christian faith.
You will:
- Lead and develop weekly and annual faith-based youth initiatives
- Create and adapt engaging programmes that support young people at different stages of their faith journey
- Further intergenerational worship opportunities in partnership with local churches
- Build trusted relationships with young people through open-access youth work
- Provide individual spiritual support and mentoring to young people
- Strengthen partnerships between KYTHE and local congregations
- Contribute to strategic planning and organisational development
- Model and uphold KYTHE’s Christian values through spiritual leadership and active participation in team prayer and reflection
- Monitor progress, track outcomes and report to Trustees and church partners
- Represent KYTHE confidently with stakeholders, churches and community partners
This is a varied and relational role combining youth work delivery, spiritual leadership, partnership development and strategic contribution — offering the opportunity to make a lasting impact on young people and the wider Christian community in Kinross-shire.
What KYTHE Needs From You
The ideal candidate will hold a recognised qualification in Christian Ministry with an emphasis on youth work and bring substantial experience of working with young people. You will be confident discussing and exploring the Christian faith with young people, including those with little prior church experience.
Collaborative and relational in your approach, you will be able to work effectively with churches of different denominations while building trust with young people from diverse backgrounds.
You will demonstrate spiritual maturity, personal integrity and a clear commitment to Christian faith and leadership.
A creative and reflective practitioner, you will be comfortable contributing to team prayer, engaging in your own spiritual development, and supporting colleagues in theirs. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, alongside the ability to manage priorities, contribute to planning, use IT systems effectively, and support monitoring and reporting requirements.
Experience of youth leadership, chaplaincy engagement within schools, programme development, and partnership working within a church context would be advantageous.