Job Description

Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role?Looking for a new career path in one of the most picturesque parts of the country? Are you a student looking to take up your first post or qualified nurse looking for a new challenge? Then Morecambe Bay is just the place for you, offering the beautiful Lake District on your doorstep. Our Trust is recruiting enthusiastic, highly motivated nurses to join our dynamic, dedicated, forward thinking professional team which serves a wide geographical area with rural and urban communities.
The services we provide: Children's Inpatient, Day Care, Assessment and Outpatients.
Our Children's inpatient services provide compassionate care for Children and Young People from 0 to 16 years of age across two busy sites, Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital. The units provide care for a mixture of specialities and for a wide range of conditions including High Dependency Care.
Main duties of the job
The units encompass inpatient, day care and assessment services for our communities. We also have dedicated Children's Out-Patient departments on both sites. This ensures a rich variety of experiences and development for our staff.
You will be reliable, flexible, motivated, have excellent clinical skills, a commitment to ongoing learning and development, a commitment to delivering high quality care, and be willing and open to embracing positive change and transformation in order to meet the demands of the community we serve.
You will care for children, young people and families who are being admitted for assessment, elective or emergency surgery, investigations and treatment, including those requiring high dependency care and will plan and evaluate together with other members of the MDT, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the child, young person, or family, maintaining a high standard of contemporaneous documentation.
You will work within the Nursing and Midwifery Code and adhere to local guidelines and policies, and complete training requirements.
You will work alongside the safeguarding team and follow local safeguarding policy.
If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!
About us
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Details
Date posted
12 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
29,970 to 36,483 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
331-B18210725
Job locations
Furness General Hospital
Dalton Lane
Barrow in Furness
LA14 4LF
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/ Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Children's Nurse

Desirable

• Mentoring/assessing qualification

Experience
Essential

• Relevant pre-registration experience of working with babies and children
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of establishing effective communication

Skills, Ability and Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrable appropriate skills in nursing for babies and children
• Basic life support skills
• Willingness to advance competencies
• Basic IT skills
• NMC Regulations
• Awareness of current child health and neonatal issues
• Child protection awareness
• Up to date knowledge of legislation pertaining to children and young people
• Awareness of clinical governance agenda
• Awareness importance of preceptorship and supervision

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Children's Nurse

Desirable

• Mentoring/assessing qualification

Experience
Essential

• Relevant pre-registration experience of working with babies and children
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of establishing effective communication

Skills, Ability and Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrable appropriate skills in nursing for babies and children
• Basic life support skills
• Willingness to advance competencies
• Basic IT skills
• NMC Regulations
• Awareness of current child health and neonatal issues
• Child protection awareness
• Up to date knowledge of legislation pertaining to children and young people
• Awareness of clinical governance agenda
• Awareness importance of preceptorship and supervision