Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Paediatric Palliative Care - RVI
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 21 months (until 28 March 2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-12-015
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/06/2025
Employer heading
Nurse Specialist (Paediatric Nurse Specialist for Bereaved Family’s)
Band 7
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and compassionate individual to support bereaved families across the region.
The post holder will have oversight of child deaths in The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting the Trust medical lead for child death to ensure a robust and high quality Child Death review process.
This post will be managed within the CHIPs service, to ensure adequate peer support and clinical supervision.
- Interview Date Friday 20 June 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse specialist as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to provide guidance and support based on advanced level knowledge to patients, carers and health professionals concerning a specific disease/condition.
Within the sphere of specialist practice:
- Demonstrates significant advanced knowledge and skills within speciality and sphere of practice
- Take a lead role facilitating the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients
- Support the development of nursing practice within the specialist field and contribute to the body of nursing knowledge
- Have corporate identity as an expert within specialist area
- Lead and provide training and education across the organisation in relevant area of practice
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
- Freeman Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
- Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Support the families of babies, children and young people (aged 0-18yrs) experiencing the death of a child at Newcastle Hospitals
- Work across Newcastle Hospitals sites including community venues and home visiting across the region and collaboratively across multiagency teams
- Require the following specific knowledge, skills and experience: Experience of supporting Bereaved families, Knowledge of Child Death Overview Process, Safeguarding/Child Child Protection Knowledge and experience
- Have oversight of all Child Deaths in NUTH and support the Trust Medical lead for child death and other child death review practitioners to ensure a robust and high quality Child Death review process
- To act as a single point of contact for the bereaved family to ensure that each family is aware of the Child Death review process
- Be required/have the ability to act as clinical supervisor to peers professionals working with recently bereaved families and to provide advice, signposting and training in supporting bereaved family’s
- Provide specialist advice and support to family’s experiencing a child death and support as a key link person throughout the Child Death review process
- Liaise with family’s on relevant bereavement services to ensure they get appropriate support when needed. To make appropriate referrals to bereavement support and services as family require
- Work collaboratively with Paediatric Palliative care services to meet children and families who are on end of life care pathways at most appropriate time to understand their individual support needs and preparation for bereavement and child death processes
- Require enhance communication skills to include sharing sensitive information with family’s and to communicate outcomes of investigations and child death review meetings
- To undertake either the role of keyworker or support professionals allocated the key worker role in the event of a child death- meeting the criteria for a Joint Agency response in line with statutory requirements
- Advocate for family’s views within the child death process including all relevant meetings
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
- • Current NMC registration
- • Degree level / Master’s level study, or a combination of equivalent specialist study / experience
- • Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements for mentorship if relevant to role
Desirable criteria
- • Master’s Degree
- • Management experience / qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive post registration experience, some of which will be at a senior level within the required specialist area of practice
- • Extended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment
- • Audit / research experience
- • Evidence of on-going continuous professional development
- • Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of leading programme(s) of education and / or training
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Good IT skills
- • Effective report writing skills
- • Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Effective organisation and time management skills
- • Current driving licence if relevant to role
- • Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anna Thorley
- Job title
- Consultant Community Paediatrician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912823346
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