Children's Community Nurse

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an experienced Children's Nurse for a full-time 12-month maternity cover position in London. The successful candidate will manage casework for children with acute or chronic needs, provide clinical support, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with a supportive team. Offering a salary range of £44,485 to £52,521 per year, this role provides opportunities to enhance skills in a compassionate environment.

Qualifications

• Registered children's nurse with professional knowledge and experiences.
• Ability to manage band 5 staff as required.
• Supervise and participate in the orientation of students and new team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly skilled clinical and non-clinical care for children.
• Support to junior team members through skill development and appraisals.
• Work collaboratively with Clinical Nurse Specialists and Consultant Paediatricians.

Skills

Motivation

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work independently

Team collaboration

Interpersonal skills

Education

RSCN/RN (Child)

Full NMC Registration

Relevant community qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced Children's Nurse looking for a new challenge? This is an exciting post working within an award winning team with excellent staff survey results.

The role requires case managing, caring for children with a chronic or acute nursing need outside of the hospital environment, working within a nurse led team. It is an opportunity to share your ideas and improve patient outcomes.

This is a maternity cover, Full time 37.5 hours per week (some weekend and bank holiday working required) - 12 Months Fixed term

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Main duties of the job

The service is open 9-5 seven days a week. This role is full time offering 37.5 hours per week, with some weekend and bank holiday working required, and is to provide Maternity Leave cover.

We are looking for a registered children's nurse who is motivated, forward thinking and has a sound professional knowledge and excellent communication skills. You should have the ability to prioritize and work both independently and as part of a team.

In this post you will provide highly skilled, quality clinical and non-clinical care, which is outcome focused, to support children and their families, to enable them to live, participate and achieve in all aspects of life, eg at home and within their community. The workload is varied and interesting with opportunity to develop further knowledge and skills.

You will also be responsible for providing support to junior team members through developing their skills & completing staff appraisals.

You will also teach parents, carers and other health professionals as required and will mentor pre and post registered students. In return you will work within a highly supportive nurse-led service with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and work closely with clinical nurse specialists, gain management experience and work collaboratively with the team of Consultant Paediatricians to plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Job responsibilities

A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• RSCN/RN (Child)
• Full NMC Registration
• Relevant community qualification

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to implement and use a model of child health nursing care in the community
• Ability to support staff in planning and delivering care
• Ability to identify deficits in the quality of care and take appropriate action
• Ability to raise and discuss issues within the multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Able to distinguish between professional roles as required e.g. CCN/HV/School Nurse
• Ability to write and formulate policies
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to ensure accurate and detailed documentation is maintained at all times
• Ability to input and retrieve information from IT systems
• Ability to deal effectively with stressed, anxious parents and children (and other carers)
• Ability to discuss the subject of death and dying appropriately and effectively and to support parents, children and other staff
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication
• Ability to function within a team whilst ensuring links with the whole multidisciplinary health care team
• Ability to advise/seek advice from relevant professionals on behalf of children, parents and other staff members
• Ability to mediate to resolve issues which cause difficulties within the unit
• Ability to manage band 5 staff as required
• Ability to supervise and participate in the orientation of students and new team members
• Ability to identify educational development needs within the team
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations/seminars and local/national events
• Proven ability to facilitate change

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.

£44,485 to £52,521 a yearinclusive of Outer HCAs per annum