Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced senior children’s nurse to Lead the newly formed Children's Community Nursing Team that cares for Children and Young People within Barking, Havering and Redbridge.
This new collaboration of service will work within the Children’s Directorate. As Lead Nurse you would be an expert practitioner in Children’s Community Nursing, enhancing the service and enabling the delivery of a safe high-quality service will be required to work leading a team of Children’s community nurse. You must be able to evidence your ability to motivate and inspire others and work collaboratively with multi- disciplinary and multi-agency teams to deliver the highest standards of care, staff support, and service delivery.
The Lead nurse role will contribute to leading service delivery, supporting quality improvement and providing safe, effective and specialist care to BCYP alongside other specialist nursing services within the Children’s Directorate. So if you are an enthusiastic, dynamic, and highly motivated nurse who is committed, caring and compassionate - come and join our fantastic team. Your professional development will be encouraged and supported.
You must have full driving licence and access to own vehicle.
Main duties of the job
To be an expert practitioner in Children’s Community Nursing, enhancing the service and enabling the delivery of a safe high-quality service.
To provide advanced clinical skills, leadership and knowledge in clinical practice.
To ensure Babies, Children’s and Young People (BCYP) receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time by leading the new collaboration of the BHRUT Children’s Community Nursing teams across the tri borough.
To contribute to leading service delivery, supporting quality improvement and providing safe, effective and specialist care to BCYP alongside other specialist nursing services within the Children’s Directorate.
To support innovative ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and child focused service working closely with the acute wards, specialist nurses, community providers and tertiary centres to deliver care within the home and reduce the length of stay.
To be responsible for the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with MDT colleagues.
To act as an excellent role model and leader to all staff
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. NMC Registered Nurse Children’s
2. Physical Assessment and Clinical reasoning course or equivalent experience
3. Non-medical prescribing qualification
Desirable criteria
4. MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent qualification
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Significant experience at a senior (Band 7 or above) level in Community Nursing role
Desirable criteria
6. Project and change management skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone 01708 435000 5936