Staff Nurse

Are you a compassionate and skilled Children’s Nurse looking for a role when you can truly make an impact? Are you passionate about providing family centred, holistic and compassionate care to children and their families?

We have three exciting opportunities for Children Nurses who have a proven track record of providing exceptional support (care and skill) in a care setting (nursing practice), to join our Rachel House Team.

Why CHAS?

“When Louise took my hand, I knew I would never be alone. The care my son received and the support we had as a family at the toughest time imaginable in our lives was truly a life-line", CHAS parent

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.

Working within the culture, ethos and philosophy of CHAS our Hospice nursing team delivers a high standard of specialist palliative nursing care and support for babies and children, and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families. 

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 provide 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
• Commitment to support maintenance of your acute clinical skills, through offering rotation opportunities where you will work alongside our Diana Children’s Nurses in the Hospital.

About you

What we need you to bring

• First level registered and paediatric qualified nurse, all applicants will need to provide a valid UK NMC pin. 
• Experience in a caring (nursing) role, working with children, young people and their families.
• Experience of prioritising a busy workload and demonstrating good time management skills
• Appetite to contribute to positive change to this service, and commitment to delivering care with empathy and compassion.

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in working with children who have complex or life-limiting conditions
• Up to date mandatory training

Further information and how to apply

If this sounds like you, we would love you to hear from you!

We have three full-time positions available: 37.5 hours per week (3 x 12.5 hour shifts worked on a rota basis).

Rachel House, CHAS’ hospice in Kinross (KY13 8FX) is embarking on an exciting two-year rebuild programme from Summer/Autumn 2026. During this time our hospice services will continue to run from a temporary site in Kinglassie, Fife called Mina House (KY5 0XT).

Mina House is a 20 minute drive from Rachel House.

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

Interviews are provisionally planned for 22 September 2026.

Follow the link to find more information including:

·      Full job description

·      Full list of benefits

·      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.