Senior Nursing Support Worker

Location: Rachel House, Kinross (Temporarily Mina House, Kinglassie)

Salary: £31,248 - £34,119 per annum, pro rata + 10% shift allowance

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time: 37.5 hours per week

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 career development opportunities.

Some of the benefits you can expect to receive from working with CHAS:

• 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 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 care in a more relaxed and homely environment
• Opportunities for further learning and development
• Opportunity to develop your clinical skills in care interventions including airway management through tracheostomy care, naso-pharyngeal tubes, suction, non-invasive and invasive ventilation.
• Access to a range of tools to support wellbeing
• The opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes volunteers.

How to Apply 

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

Please click APPLY to answer a couple of questions and upload a CV or complete a full application form.

We have two 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.

For an informal chat about the position please contact the Senior Charge Nurse on duty at Rachel House, please call 01577 865777.

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:  23 September 2026

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