Children's Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner Student (PGDip)

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Lancing; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

An opportunity to join Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust as a Children's Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner Student, focusing on delivering essential nursing care to children with complex health needs. This funded position leads to a PGDip qualification in Primary and Community Care, enriching your skills in community children's nursing.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• PGDip qualification in Primary and Community Care required.
• NMC registration is necessary.
• Experience in children's nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing to children with long-term conditions and complex needs.
• Manage care for children requiring palliative and end-of-life support.
• Collaborate with social care and education services.

Skills

Community Nursing

Patient Care

Communication

Education

PGDip in Primary and Community Care

NMC Specialist Practice Award

Job description

Children's Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner Student (PGDip)

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PGDip Specialist Practice Qualification in Primary and Community Care Community Children's Nursing. This includes an integrated prescribing (V300) qualification and an NMC Specialist Practice Award.

Are you looking to expand your children’s community nursing portfolio of skills and expertise to deliver children’s community nursing or are you a children’s nurse with experience looking for a new challenge and feel that nursing in community settings is for you? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This exciting and funded opportunity is offered by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) and will enable suitably qualified nurses to undertake a PGDip in Primary and Community Care (Community Children’s Nursing) Specialist Practice Award including an integrated prescribing (V300) qualification.

You could be based in any of our four CCN locality teams, which includes: Brighton & Hove, Chichester, Crawley or Lancing. Further details can be discussed at interview.

Important

The University application form will need to be completed once the applicants have been offered a position by SCFT. Details for University application will be provided at interview.

The service provides children’s community nursing for children and young people with long term conditions, complex needs, and palliative care, including end of life care. The children can present with acute illness in addition to requiring skilled nursing intervention to manage highly complex health and developmental needs throughout childhood and at transition to adult services. The CYPCNS works closely with social care, education and third sector organisations.

Our CYPCNS offers innovation, partnership and excellence in community care and we are highly committed to active on going engagement with children and families to shape and improve services. We aspire to be what children, families and our partners need us to be to enable the very best health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people in West Sussex and Brighton and Hove.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
  
  

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jemma Davis Job title: Practice Development Nurse Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01273696011

ext 6200

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