Exciting opportunity for a Senior Staff Nurse to work in our growing and developing CHAS at Home team North, delivering care to families in their community, covering Aberdeen and The Shire.

“When Louise took my hand, I knew I would never be alone. The care my son received and the support we had as a family at the toughest time imaginable in our lives was truly a life-line", CHAS parent

Are you passionate about providing family centred, holistic and compassionate care to children and their families? Are you excited by collaborative working with local health and social care providers? Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Children’s Staff Nurse with a proven track record delivering exceptional care and skill in nursing practice, to join our Aberdeen CHAS at Home Team as a Senior Staff Nurse. In this role you will take responsibility for leading assessment, planning, organising, implementing and evaluating nursing care for children, young people and families. You will be supported to take on leadership and line management responsibilities and will work closely with the Senior Charge Nurses to promote effective teamwork across the service to meet the needs of children, young people and families

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
• Salary increments scale similar to NHS
• Enhanced pay for unsocial hours and overtime
• Pay matched to closest current increment with NHS
• Generous annual leave entitlement (matched to current service-based enhanced entitlement with NHS, up to a maximum of 40 days)
• Ability to provide 1:1 nursing care in a more relaxed and homely environment
• 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
• Commitment to support clinical skills to enable development and support collaborative working across all health and social care settings.
• Flexible shift rota, full time staff usually work 3 shifts over a 7 day’s/nights. On call may be required due to the need for a more responsive reactive service – currently in consultation stage.

About you

What we need you to bring

• First level registered nurse, all applicants will need to provide a valid UK NMC pin.
• Highly experienced in a nursing role, working with children, young people and their families.
• Experience of prioritising a busy workload, acting as a role model for the team and demonstrating strong leadership skills
• Commitment to working in partnership and collaboratively with local services
• Commitment to delivering care with empathy and compassion.
• Driving licence and access to a car as this role requires travel across the community.

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in working with children who have complex or life-limiting conditions
• Up to date mandatory training