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.
Main duties of the job
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 but is not exhaustive: 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.
Equal Opportunities
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work‑environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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