Community Children's Nurse

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust as a highly motivated paediatric nurse in the Paediatric Outreach Team. You will deliver comprehensive nursing care to children with acute and long-term conditions, working in partnership with families while providing support in both home and clinic settings. The role promises professional development along with a range of NHS benefits.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Access to NHS discount schemes

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Extensive and recent experience in a variety of Paediatric settings.
• Experience of managing and leading a team as a Band 6 Senior Nurse.
• Active participation and experience of clinical governance processes.

Responsibilities

• Work effectively with sound judgment in complex emotional situations.
• Create individual care plans for specific children alongside parents and professionals.
• Deliver nursing care including IV drug administration and complex healthcare needs.

Skills

Flexibility

Education

Registered Children’s Nurse

Teaching/Assessing Certificate or equivalent

Evidence of further continued professional development

Job description

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We are looking for a highly motivated experienced paediatric nurse to join our Paediatric Outreach Team.

The Paediatric Outreach Team cares for children and young people within their own home and primary care setting.

Currently the service provides community nursing for children and young people with acute and long term conditions, complex needs, and palliative care, including end of life care.

The children and young people 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.

Our services are designed to promote excellent holistic care for the children and their families.

The Paediatric Outreach Team is based within Stoke Mandeville Hospital and is part of the thriving paediatric unit, we work closely with the acute ward. Therefore you will have the opportunity to experience many specialities and get to know many of the families before visiting them in their own homes.

We are looking for nurses who have community experience or experience of managing complex medical needs of children in any setting.

Main duties of the job

• To work effectively with sound judgement when dealing with complex emotional situations, family dynamics and in difficult environments.
• To work in partnership with parents/guardians and gain informed consent.
• To create individual care plans for specific children, negotiating, agreeing, implementing and evaluating with parents and other professionals.
• To be responsible for assessing, delivering, developing and maintaining high standards in the quality of care in the home and clinic setting. Delivering face to face support and/or telephone advice.
• To deliver patient care including accessing central and peripheral IV lines, IV drug administration, managing and replacing enteral feeding devices, oxygen therapy, suctioning and complex healthcare needs, wound care and End of Life Care .
• Demonstrates the ability to manage time and resources effectively.
• Demonstrate an ability to prioritise workload and is able to show flexibility in response to urgent and/or changing needs.
• Through reflection and clinical support, develop strategies to improve, and where necessary change practice.

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.

Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

Education

• Registered Children’s Nurse
• Teaching/Assessing Certificate or equivalent
• Evidence of further continued professional development

Experience

• Extensive and recent experience in a variety of Paediatric settings
• Experience of managing and leading a team as a Band 6 Senior Nurse
• Experience of Quality management against current National Paediatric Standards/ Children and Young People
• Active participation and experience of clinical governance processes

Skills

• Flexibility and ability to cope with different work environments

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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