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Senior Community Children's Nurse
The closing date is 02 July 2025
The Children's Community Nursing pathway works across Devon to provide a high quality, responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting.
We are looking for experienced Children's Nurses to join our Community Children's Nurse team which also includes the Special School Nurse team.
We have a Part Time band 6 Special School-Based Nurse post available. Term time or year round positions will be considered.
You should have proven experience of working with children who have complex medical needs and disabilities, be able to demonstrate the ability to work well both within a team environment and autonomously and ideally have community nursing experience.
You will care for children and young people attending special school who may have a wide variety of health conditions. You will work in partnership with the school staff and other health service providers to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to our patients, to provide care close to home and avoid hospital admission. You will promote inclusion and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.
This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service that is children, young people, families and staff focused.
The role will be based at Millwater School near Budleigh Salterton but there will be some requirement to support across other school sites and community.
Main duties of the job
* To provide specialist nursing support, advice and interventions within the multiagency ethos of Children and Family Health Devon services for children and their families.
* To assist in promoting the health and well-being of children with complex nursing needs, to enable them to achieve the maximum benefit from their educational opportunities.
* To provide case management of an identified caseload of children with highly complex and/or long term conditions by utilising and promoting evidence based care.
* To provide nursing care, support, training, advice and education to children, families and carers in order to meet the children's health needs in the school and community environment.
* To provide children and young people with the opportunity to express their views in an individually appropriate way, having to have their opinions taken into account to develop the services
About us
The Children's Community Nursing team works closely together to provide a high quality responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting across Devon.
We work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to infants, children and young people and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.
This is your chance to develop within a progressive and innovative service that is children, young people, families and staff focused.
Wellbeing of staff within the team remains a priority along with the delivery of excellent safe care to the children & families that we support. Youcan be sure that they will be well supported within a friendly and compassionate team who value the contribution of each individual team member.
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Job responsibilities
Please see our attached job description and person specification form for full details.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* RN Child or RSCN qualification
* Current registration with NMC
* Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or diploma (or substantial documented experience of working in the community).
* Degree level qualification in nursing.
* Non-medical prescriber V100 or V300
Experience
* Experience of working within the community / primary care setting.
* Proven experience of working with children with complex medical needs and/or learning disability
* Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
* Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing competing demands and meeting deadlines.
* Training qualification or experience
* Evidence of the implementation of risk assessments.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of NHS IT systems
* Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
* Good working knowledge of Children's safeguarding processes
* Teaching methods for larger groups and individuals
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.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum pro rata
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