Bank Senior Nursing Support Worker

Location: Robin House, Balloch

Salary: £16.03 / hour

Contract Type: Bank, various of shifts available

Position Type: {Advertised Full Time / Part Time}

Closing Date: 14/09/2026 23:59

The Vacancy

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 Senior Nursing Support Workers assist nursing staff to provide family centred and holistic support to children with life shortening conditions and their families. Alongside compassion and care, laughter and finding fun in each day are important parts of the role.

If you are a support worker with experience working with children with complex care needs (or relevant experience), we would love to hear from you!

We would like you to bring

• Experience working with children with complex care needs, or can evidence relevant experience (for example, working with adults in palliative care, working in hospice environment or ASN team)
• Educated to SVQ level 3/HNC in a Health, Social or Child Care or can evidence equivalent experience
• Relevant knowledge of care procedures such as nutritional and airway support using a variety of equipment and access devices along with clinical observations skills. (Examples – NG, Gastrostomy support. Seizure care and management and Airway support including suction)

Why CHAS?

Our children’s palliative care team report great satisfaction in being able to provide high quality nursing care in a supportive team with exciting skills development opportunities.

• Flexibility– we offer a range of shifts, after your initial induction and shadow shifts, as a bank worker you accept shifts that work for you!
• Meaningful work– working within the hospice you can see where your work makes a difference to the children and families that CHAS support.
• Supportive environment, working within an experienced team. The opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes volunteers.
• Opportunityto develop your clinical skills in care interventions including airway management through tracheostomy care, naso-pharyngeal tubes, suction, non-invasive and invasive ventilation.
• Free onsite parking

How to Apply 

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! Click apply and you will be prompted to complete our full application form, or you can opt to answer a few questions and submit a CV

For further information about working with CHAS, please visit to our recruitment website at https://www.chas.org.uk/careers

For an informal chat about the positions with the Senior Charge Nurse on duty at Robin House, please call 01389 722055.

For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment team on 0131 444 3293 or by email at careers@chas.org.uk. 

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

Closing date:   14 September 2026

Provisional Interview Date:  29 September 2026

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