Band 6 Children's Community Nurse

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.

This is a part-time role working 22.5 hours per week.

As a Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse, you will support by:

• 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, reduce the need for hospital admissions, help to coordinate and regularly view care needs, support families to be empowered to meet complex health needs.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

The successful candidate will have:

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 (or documented experience of working in the community setting).
• 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 Description

As a Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 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 every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s 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 career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re 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 our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

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.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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