Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse to join our Children’s Continuing Care Team as a maternity cover Senior Practitioner, supporting children and young people with complex and evolving health needs across Islington, Camden, and Haringey.
You will lead on clinical practice, case management, and service development for children with complex physical health conditions, autism, and behaviours that challenge access to healthcare. This role involves working collaboratively with families, schools, the ICB, social care, and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure safe, high-quality, and coordinated care in community settings.
We welcome applications from adult‑trained nurses with relevant paediatric experience, as well as those with a background in learning disability nursing and mental health.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide supervision and leadership to junior staff, take a lead role in safeguarding and risk management, and advocate strongly for the voice of the child.
* Contribute to quality improvement and innovation within the service.
* Provide learning opportunities and support to enable individuals to achieve objectives.
* Sign off and train Personal health budget Pa’s in all specialist training.
* Demonstrate and deliver evidence‑based nursing practice.
* Deliver clinical care on packages directly in the home.
* Help participate in the continuing development of the nursing process, including the creation and updating of specific guidelines and protocols.
* Promote health and comfort, maintaining dignity and privacy, and a quality of life for the child.
* Ensure a safe environment and the safe use of equipment.
* Ensure all documentation is complete and up to date.
* In the event of hospital admission assist in the skilled nursing care.
Additional Duties
The post includes Monday to Friday but may include weekends and nights when new packages are started. To help ensure the identification of training needs for all carers in order to provide appropriate training and learning opportunities to achieve the agreed level of competency. To help facilitate and organise the delivery and the evaluation of training for staff/family members and other community organisations (such as Respite centres/after school clubs and holiday schemes).
Equality and Diversity
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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