Overview
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Salary: £40,800 - £49,088 + 10% Shift allowance
Closing date: Sunday 7 September 2025
Exciting opportunity for a Senior Staff Nurse to work in our CHAS at Home team delivering care to families in their community, covering the West of Scotland. Based in Robin House in Balloch, commutable from Glasgow, Paisley, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire.
Location and contract
Location: Robin House, Balloch
Contract: Full time, 37.5 hours per week (3x12.5 hour shifts)
Role and responsibilities
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 providing high quality nursing care in a supportive team with exciting career development opportunities.
Benefits include:
* 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
* Free on-site parking.
* 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 delivering care with empathy and compassion.
* Driving licence and access to a car as this role requires travel across the community.
Nice to have
* Experience in working with children who have complex or life-limiting conditions
* Up to date mandatory training
Interested?
If this sounds like you, we would love you to hear from you!
Please follow the link to view our vacancy page. If you would like an informal and confidential discussion about the role, please email our Senior Charge Nurse to arrange a time for a call.
For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment team on 0131 444 3293.
This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland PVG check.
Interviews are provisionally planned for Wednesday 17 September 2025.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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