An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy Children's Community Nursing Team as a Children's Community Nurse. The successful candidate will embrace the challenge of working across different environments to meet diverse service user needs.
This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience working as an autonomous practitioner and gaining knowledge across an array of specialties, strengthening multi-professional working relationships. It is a role whereby excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and professional curiosity are paramount.
Responsibilities:
* To provide a specialist community nursing service for children with acute and ongoing care needs within residential and educational settings.
* To provide support to the lead professional for a child when planning and assessing a child's health needs, ensuring they are met within healthcare budgets if needed.
* Provide education, advice, and support empowering families to manage their child's condition at home and within the specialist schools.
* Provide or ensure the safe provision of evidence-based clinical care in both generic and specialist community nursing settings.
* With supervision, carry a small caseload of children with continuing medical/nursing care needs, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individual programs of care to meet their continuing needs in the community.
* In conjunction with the team manager, accept referrals of children with specific care needs in accordance with Children's Community Nursing protocols.
* Liaise with Paediatricians and other multi-disciplinary/agency staff to organize or participate in discharge planning meetings, facilitating an early and efficient transition from hospital to home and effective continuity of care.
* Prioritize and undertake visits to children and their families at home or other appropriate settings, to undertake nursing tasks, monitor health, and provide ongoing support and advice.
* Disseminate knowledge through report writing and review, ensuring clinical accuracy and reliability for any information shared.
* Participate in the multi-disciplinary team in the implementation of complex care packages for children in the community.
* Instruct parents/carers on clinical/nursing skills such as enteral/parental feeds, passing naso-gastric/gastrostomy tubes, tracheostomies, suctioning, naso-pharyngeal airways, emergency medications, drugs: oral, injections & infusions.
* Perform nursing procedures as above, access central lines/portacaths, and administer intra-venous (IV) drugs at home and within the child's educational setting.
* Identify child/parent learning needs and modify approach accordingly, developing strategies and tools for learning.
* Identify social care needs, including protection from abuse, and refer to Social Services as indicated. Produce health assessments in conjunction with the Framework for Assessment, provide reports for, and attend case conferences and court as indicated.
We are a people business where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence, and great customer care.
We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. We recognize that work-life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full-time/flexible working for our advertised roles.
Please note that all communication will be electronic, and we ask that you check your email account regularly. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support, including reasonable adjustments with the application process, please contact the recruitment team.
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