Job Introduction
We are delighted to invite applications for a Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse to join our team. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to combine clinical expertise with leadership, supporting children and young people with complex health needs in a specialist school setting. This is a part-time role working 22.5 hours per week.
Responsibilities
* Providing specialist nursing care, training, advice and education to children and their families and carers at home and in the community, working in close partnership with a range of other statutory and voluntary agencies.
* Providing case management to an identified caseload of children and young people who predominantly have life limiting, palliative, and complex health needs, with a nursing need that requires support in the community. This includes tracheostomy, cardiac and respiratory monitoring, catheterisation, central lines, long term ventilation. Experience and/or expertise in supporting children with this level of need is desirable.
* Improving outcomes for children and families, reducing the need for hospital admissions, helping to coordinate and regularly review care needs, supporting families to be empowered to meet complex health needs.
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Childrens Nurse or registered nurse with clinical experience in required fields.
* Current registration with the NMC.
* Experience of working with children who have complex, life-limiting, palliative care needs.
* Able to case manage and caseload manage a number of children.
* Be able effectively assess and prioritise needs.
* Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
* Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
* Commitment to client-centred practice.
* Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
* Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
* Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
* Broad knowledge of normal child development.
* Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
* Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
Desirable
* Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or diploma.
* Qualification in working with children palliative care needs.
* Experience of working with children with additional and complex needs.
* Experience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies.
* Proven experience of working with children with palliative or end of life nursing needs.
Other Requirements
* Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.
Package
* Band 6 AfC Salary Pro Rata with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback and voucher offers.
* Access to wages as you earn them to help cover emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
* Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through the outstanding learning and development team.
* An open, just culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of ratings holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
EEO & Diversity
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We're a Disability Confident company, and we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.
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