Job overview
Are you an experienced children’s nurse looking for a new challenge?
If you are enthusiastic, motivated, driven and would enjoy working autonomously in managing a complex and varied caseload in the community then we would love to hear from you!
The role will be based in Oxford but you will be required to work countywide.
Main duties of the job
As a Children's Community Nurse, you will work autonomously to manage a caseload of patients. You will safeguard and advocate for the child, facilitate their care and provide training so that their health needs are safely managed at home and in school.
The Children’s Community Nursing Team are expected to deliver respite sessions and support the duty role, acute (including Hospital at Home) and palliative care rotas.
The acute/Hospital at Home aspect of the role includes undertaking planned clinical assessments and interventions following care pathways ensuring any deteriorations are appropriately escalated. You will be working closely with the doctors in the acute setting to support care of these children at home where appropriate. The service operates a single point of access for families or agencies to contact; the nurse in charge prioritises and allocates nursing tasks accordingly to the localities.
We offer end of life care at home, in order to support this, we operate an on-call rota which is activated when required. Training and support will be provided for this role.
The Children’s Community Nursing Team offer a rolling education programme, including a full induction for new starters into the team. You will have access to a wide range of NHS benefits including discounts, support through revalidation, regular supervision and various learning and development opportunities that will go towards CPD credits.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, schools and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
2. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
3. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
4. Competitive pension scheme
5. Lease car scheme
6. Cycle to work scheme
7. Employee Assistance Programme
8. Mental Health First Aiders
9. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
10. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Oxfordshire Community Children's Nursing team provide vital support to children from birth to 18 years with complex nursing needs across the county. The children on our caseload have a variety of chronic and acute conditions and require nursing support such as enteral feeding, long term ventilation, symptom management and support with acute childhood illnesses. The support we provide includes empowering families to care for their child's health needs at home, providing respite sessions, delivering acute and palliative care outside of the hospital environment, and supporting children at school. We are commissioned to provide all of these services within each of our four localities.
This role is based in Oxford, however we offer a countywide service and travel to other areas/bases is required on a regular basis. Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a car for work.
Our core service hours are between 08.00-20.00, 7 days a week, working contracted hours as a shift pattern, including weekends and bank holidays. The on call palliative rota operates for 24 hours from 08:00– 08:00, this is currently covered by Band 6 staff and above. If necessary, flexible working adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
11. Registered Childrens Nurse
Desirable criteria
12. Community Specialist Practitioner Award: Community Children’s Nursing
13. Palliative Care Certificate
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
14. Acute paediatric nursing experience
15. Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
16. Excellent communication skills
17. Evidence of clinical leadership
Desirable criteria
18. Community Nursing experience
19. Paediatric nursing skills in palliative care
20. Paediatric nursing skills in Intravenous Therapy administration, Cardio-respiratory care, enteral feeding and wound care
21. Experience in acting as a student nursing supervisor/ assessor
Job related skills
Essential criteria
22. Awareness and acceptance of the rights and needs of service users and staff
23. Awareness and acceptance of Children’s Rights
24. Ability to work in different environments
25. Full UK driving licence and access to car
26. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
27. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
28. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
29. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
30. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
31. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
32. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
33. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing