Children's Community Nurse

NHS; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Plymouth seeks a Children's Community Nurse to provide specialist care for children with complex needs. The role involves working collaboratively with families, healthcare professionals, and supervising tasks to support children's health in various settings. Applicants must be a degree-level registered nurse with NMC registration and recent clinical experience. The position offers an opportunity to enhance multi-professional relationships while delivering compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Proven evidence of recent clinical skills.
• Demonstrable experience of nursing children with complex needs.
• Ability to make decisions and work unsupervised.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist community nursing service for children with ongoing care needs.
• Participate in discharge planning meetings for effective care transitions.
• Instruct parents/carers on clinical skills and nursing tasks.

Skills

Clinical skills

Experience with complex needs

Palliative care

Education

1st level registered nurse RN Child (Degree Level)

NMC Registration

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy Children's Community Nursing Team as a Children's Community Nurse. The successful candidate will embrace the challenge of working across different environments to meet diverse service user need. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience working as an autonomous practitioner and gaining knowledge across an array of specialties, strengthening multi-professional working relationships. It is a role whereby excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail and professional curiosity is paramount.

Please note as part of the interview process we may have a youth panel interview alongside our formal interview process, details of this will be provided to successfully short listed candidates' as required.

For an informal chat or to discuss the position in more detail please contact Paula Montgomery via 01752 439444.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as 'Priority' and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist community nursing service for children with acute and ongoing care needs within residential and educational settings.
• To provide support to the lead professional for a child when planning and assessing a child's health needs ensuring they are met within health care budgets if needed.
• Provide education, advice and support empowering families to manage their child's condition at home and within the specialist schools.
• Provide or ensure the safe provision of evidenced based clinical care in both generic and specialist community nursing settings.

About us

We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Job responsibilities

• With supervision carry a small caseload of children with continuing medical/nursing care needs, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of care to meet their continuing needs in the community.
• In conjunction with the team manager accept referrals of children with specific care needs in accordance with Childrens Community Nursing protocols.
• Liaise with Paediatricians and other multi-disciplinary/agency staff to organise or participate in discharge planning meetings facilitating an early and efficient transition from hospital to home and effective continuity of care.
• Prioritise and undertake visits to children and their families at home or other appropriate settings, to undertake nursing tasks, monitor health, and provide ongoing support and advice.
• Disseminate knowledge through report writing and review, ensuring clinical accuracy and reliability for any information shared.
• Participate in the multi-disciplinary team in the implementation of complex care packages for children in the community. Disseminate knowledge through report writing and review, ensuring clinical accuracy and reliability for any information shared.
• Instruct parents/carers on clinical/nursing skills such as enteral/parental feeds, passing naso-gastric/gastrostomy tubes, tracheostomies, suctioning, naso-pharyngeal airways, emergency medications, drugs: oral, injections & infusions.
• Perform nursing procedures as above, access central lines/portacaths and administer intra-venous (IV) drugs at home and within the childs educational setting.
• Identify child/parent learning needs and modify approach accordingly, developing strategies and tools for learning.
• Identify social care needs including protection from abuse and refer to Social Services as indicated. Produce health assessments in conjunction with the Framework for Assessment, provide reports for and attend case conferences and court as indicated.

For further details please see the attached JD.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

• o Proven evidence of recent clinical skills
• o Demonstrable experience of nursing children with complex needs
• Demonstrable experience of palliative care

Qualifications

• o 1st level registered nurse RN Child (Degree Level)
• o NMC Registration
• o High degree of organisational skills
• o Ability to make decisions and work unsupervised
• o Research/audit ability

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.