Children's Community Nurse

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Children's Nurse for a permanent position at North Middlesex Hospital. This role involves case managing children outside of the hospital, providing high-quality care, and mentoring junior staff. The position offers full-time hours with some weekend work, and a competitive salary in line with NHS Band 6 pay scales.

Qualifications

• Registered children’s nurse with full NMC registration.
• Experience in community nursing is preferred.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Case managing children with chronic or acute nursing needs.
• Providing clinical and non-clinical care to support children and families.
• Mentoring junior staff and students.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Clinical Care

Mentoring

Education

RSCN/RN (Child)

Full NMC Registration

Relevant community qualification

Job description

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Main area Paediatric Community Nursing Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Driving Licence is a requirement to this role. Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some weekend working) Job ref 391-NMUH-7198840

Site North Middlesex Hospital Town London Salary £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAs (Pro-rata if LTFT) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/05/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

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 role is full time offering 37.5 hours per week, with some weekend and bank holiday working required, and is offered on a permanent contract to replace a staff member leaving this role for promotion. The service is open 9-5 seven days a week.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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