Senior Charge Nurse

Senior Charge Nurse - Community

Help shape the future of children’s palliative care at home in Scotland

Are you an experienced nurse leader with the passion, confidence and ambition to help transform how children’s palliative care is delivered in the community?

This is an exciting opportunity to join CHAS at Home as a Senior Charge Nurse, providing visible, compassionate clinical leadership and helping us develop high-quality, responsive and sustainable care for children and families closer to home.

At CHAS, our ambition is to enable children and families to have real choice about where and how their care is delivered, including when a child is approaching the end of their life. As Senior Charge Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in making that ambition a reality.

About the role

This is much more than a traditional charge nurse position.

You will lead with visibility and compassion the delivery and development of specialist paediatric palliative care within the community. Providing clinical and professional leadership to your CHAS at Home team while working collaboratively with colleagues across CHAS, the NHS and Health and Social Care Partnerships.

You will help develop models of care that are accessible, responsive and equitable, supporting both scheduled and unscheduled care and enabling children and families to receive complex palliative and end-of-life care at home when this reflects their wishes.

You will promote a culture of continuous learning, improvement and professional accountability.

About you

We are looking for someone who brings clinical credibility, compassionate leadership and a genuine desire to make services better for children and families. Alongside a commitment to share expertise and enable a culture of continuous learning and development.

You will be a Registered Nurse (Child) or Registered Nurse (Learning Disability), educated to (at a minimum) degree level, with substantial nursing experience including senior experience at NHS Band 6 level or above. You will bring leadership and management experience, service-development experience and experience of children's palliative care and care around dying.

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
• Enhanced pay for unsocial hours and overtime
• Generous annual leave entitlement (matched to current service-based enhanced entitlement with NHS, up to a maximum of 40 days)
• Ability to offer choice around preferred place of care and support
• 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
• Working within an experienced and supportive team,
• Free on-site parking.
• Commitment to support clinical skills to enable development and support collaborative working across all health and social care settings.

Further Information and How to Apply

This could be the opportunity for you if…

• You are an experienced nurse who wants your next role to combine clinical leadership, people leadership and service transformation.
• You believe children and families should have genuine choice about where care is delivered.
• And you want to help shape what excellent paediatric palliative care at home looks like for the future.

If that sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Follow the link to find more information including:

·      Recruitment pack

·      Contact details to arrange an informal chat with the hiring manager.

·      Contact details for support with the recruitment process.

To apply you will be asked to answer a couple of questions and submit your CV or complete our full application form.  

This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.

A driving licence and access to a car is essential.

This post is normally based at Rachel House, Kinross, but will temporarily relocate to Cardenden, for approximately 12–18 months from summer 2026 whilst we rebuild Rachel House. The office space in Cardenden is an approximate 25 minute drive from Rachel House

We welcome applications from candidates with transferable skills and diverse backgrounds. If you’re unsure whether you meet all the criteria, please reach out - we’d love to explore how you could be a great fit for CHAS.