Children’s Community Nurse

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; In loco; GBP 32.000 - 42.000; Tempo pieno

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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a confident children's community nurse to join an established team on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave until 1 November 2027. The role involves delivering nurse-led care to children in their homes across North East Essex, working with Colchester hospital to enable early discharge and care closer to home.

You will work flexibly in the community, develop collaborative relationships with other healthcare professionals, and

Competenze

• Manage own caseload of children in the community.
• Deliver evidence-based nursing care in children's community settings.
• Provide clinical assessment, care planning, and evaluation.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and hospital colleagues.
• Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Mansioni

• Deliver care to children in community settings and homes.
• Develop and implement care plans and evaluate outcomes.
• Liaise with Matron and multidisciplinary teams as appropriate.
• Educate and support families and carers in their homes and other settings.
• Participate in supervision, induction and service development.

Conoscenze

Caseload management

Autonomous practice

Collaborative working

NMC Code compliance

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an established team of children's community nurses on a fixed term/secondment basis to cover maternity leave until 1st November 2027. We are a busy service with a diverse caseload working across North East Essex. We provide clinical interventions to children within their own homes 7 days per week.

We are looking for a confident innovative nurse to join our children's community nursing team. You will be required to work in conjunction with the Children's department at Colchester hospital whose aim is to facilitate early discharge and care closer to home.

You will need to be a flexible practitioner within the community setting, a good team player and be able to develop collaborative working relationships with other healthcare professionals, services and agencies.

The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of children delivering high quality patient care according to agreed standards which are set and monitored.

You will be offered opportunities to develop both clinically and professionally within a supportive environment and encouraged to participate in service developments. Clinical supervision and a supported induction period are provided

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be responsible for the management of their own caseload.
• To provide the delivery of evidence based nursing care to children the community settings by providing clinical assessment, care planning, care delivery, care evaluation and clinical advice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To develop planned programmes of care to promote health gains and maximise independence in all types of children within the community (for example, home, schools or other establishments) as required
• Using autonomous judgement and liaising with the Matron and/ or multi-disciplinary professional as appropriate, manage children's health needs in accordance with clinical guidelines, using own clinical judgement to recognise acute exacerbations of illness and to initiate appropriate nursing interventions.
• Using autonomous judgement and liaising with the Matron and/ or multi-disciplinary professional as appropriate, manage a changing caseload of children and identifying when the child's condition warrants discharge from the service.
• To implement and evaluate evidence based training programmes for families, carers, other professionals and the multi disciplinary team.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

• generous pension scheme
• unsocial hours payments (where applicable)
• 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata)
• access to a range of NHS discounts

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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