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* Vacancy type: Paid Vacancy
* Function: Nursing & Clinical Services
* Location: Hospice - Sully
* Salary: (Band 6) £39,604 to £47,691 during probation and £41,225 to £49,644 post probation (depending on experience)
* Contract type: Fixed term
* Contract length: 2 years
* Contract hours: Full time
* Weekly hours: 37.5 hours
* Closing Date: 06/11/2025
* Ref No: 1031
About The Role
As a Deputy Lead Nurse your responsibility will be to provide high quality leadership to the hospice‑based care team, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care. At Ty Hafan we promote individualised care planning, which goes beyond just clinical tasks. Our staff pride themselves on being able to make a lasting difference, through multiple opportunities we get to know the families well and support what is important to them.
Ty Hafans Deputy Lead Nurses make timely, intuitive and evidence‑based clinical decisions as an essential part of their role. Support will be provided through working closely with our wider team of professionals.
Our skilled team provide specialist care for children and young people with a wide range of complex conditions therefore, at Ty Hafan your work will be extremely varied, and deeply fulfilling.
Candidates will be required to work 37.5 hours a week, covering 3 x 12‑hrs shifts (days & nights) a week and 1 x 6hrs early, late or Twilight shift a month.
Our Shift Patterns Are As Follows
* Days 7.00am 7.30pm (12 hours)
* Nights 7.00pm 7.30am (12 hours)
* Earlies 7.00am 1.30pm (6 hours)
* Lates 1.00pm 7.30pm (6 hours)
* Twilight 4pm 10pm (6 hours)
About Ty Hafan
Ty Hafan is one of the UK’s leading paediatric palliative care charities and offers care, respite and dedicated support to children and young people with life‑shortening conditions across Wales. Support is provided to children and their families at our hospice in Sully, in community settings, and in the family home. As a charity we greatly value the input, contribution and commitment of our many volunteers and supporters, without whose support we would not be able to provide the services that we do. Our families describe us as a lifeline as we enable them to create precious memories with their children during their short lives, as well as end of life and beyond.
At Ty Hafan our care team is dedicated to upholding our vision, purpose, and values, all of which are at the core of all that we do.
Our Vision: A Wales where every child with a life‑shortening condition lives a fulfilling life, supported with the compassion and specialist care they and their family need.
Our Purpose: No family should have to face the unimaginable loss of their child alone. With children and families at the heart of all we do, we provide free care and support in our hospice and in the community, offering a lifeline throughout the child’s short life, at end of life, through bereavement and beyond.
Our Values: Demonstrating compassion, Providing excellent service, Working together and Taking ownership.
About You
We are looking for an experienced paediatric nurse who is an excellent communicator and enthusiastic role model, bringing both clinical expertise and emotional intelligence to every shift. You need to be confident in assessing complex care needs, making timely and evidence‑based decisions, and guiding a team to deliver safe, compassionate, and holistic care.
You must be able to recognise clinical deterioration, elevate concerns appropriately, and support evidence‑based interventions in line with current protocols and best practice.
You believe in family‑centred care and take pride in building trusting relationships with children, young people, and their families. You’re not just task‑focused; you’re driven by the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of those you support.
Benefits
As a Ty Hafan employee you will benefit from regular professional development opportunities including up to 10 days a year focussed on‑site skills development, and the ability to apply for postgraduate short‑courses or external training programmes. We encourage our nurses to become champions, supporting progression throughout their career, and developing their skills of interest to the benefit of the wider team and our families.
Our Enhanced Benefits Package
* Unsocial pay enhancements for nights, evenings, weekends and bank holidays (Ranging from +25% to +60%)
* Reimbursement of annual nursing registration (PIN) fees
* Holiday entitlement of 30 days (rising to 32 days with service) plus Bank Holidays
* The ability to continue an existing NHS pension or to enrol in our Group Personal Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 5%
* Life assurance (death in service benefit)
* Wellbeing support and clinical supervision available both on site and through external providers
* Employee assistance program, which provides a range of free services including counselling, financial and legal support
* Unlimited access to a 24/7 online GP as well as a range of other health experts
* Healthcare Cash Plan claim back the cost for appointments and treatment such as dental, optical or physio
* Staff complimentary therapy and yoga sessions offered regularly
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted gym membership and shopping discounts
* Subsidised meals, prepared daily by our dedicated catering team
* Free on‑site secured parking.
Further information
If you are interested in an exciting new career challenge and share our aim of providing specialist and compassionate palliative care to children, then Ty Hafan could be the place for you. We would love to hear from you. For further information please see the full job description and job specification, or email.
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Additional Information
Ty Hafan is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Successful applicants must be a UK resident, and we do not offer sponsorship at this time. You will have current NMC registration and are subject to the outcome of an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and baring service) check.
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