Lead Admissions Nurse Band 6 (Internal Grade 4)

You will be joining an award-winning, certified Outstanding team, who do all they can to empower babies, children, young people and families to experience as much life as possible. As a member of Noah’s Ark Nurse and Specialist Care team, you will put the experience of children and families at the heart of all you do. As well as understanding their care needs, you will get to know what’s important to each child you support – whether it’s knowing what their favourite song to listen to is, how they like to play, or what sooths them when they are sad - at Noah’s Ark it’s so important that each child is treated as an individual. You will focus on what children can do, rather than their limitations, and will support them to experience things they may never have thought possible. And by providing care for children, either at our state-of-the art building, The Ark, or out in the community, you will be allowing parents and cares to take some time for themselves. The hours of care you will provide will make a huge difference, allowing them to live life outside of their child’s condition. By creating this time, you will be creating choice – something which can feel impossible for the families we support. As the Lead Admissions Nurse, you would be an integral part of the admission team, liaising with families to get them booked in and ensuring all pre-admission elements are complete to support their stay. When required, you would join our experienced nursing team to help provide a 24/7 on-call symptom assessment/management service for babies, children, and young people in The Ark and out in the community. Your commitment to children and families will continue through to end-of-life care. You will be a guiding reassuring presence for families elevating anxiety and worry and working with other healthcare professionals to create as much comfort as possible. You will be providing essential symptom management to help to bring comfort. As well as giving the choice of preferred place of care and preferred place of death. During this time, you will continue to treat each child and family as an individual by taking the time to understand what is important to them. You will help to create memories to enable as good a death as possible. A natural and experienced leader, you will deliver high quality and effective training to other members of the team and family members. You will provide direct line management support to Band 5 Nurses (equivalent) and Band 3 & 4 (equivalent) Specialist Carers.