Community Children's Nurse

NHS; Greenwich, City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Greenwich seeks a full time Senior Children’s Nurse to join the Community Children’s Nursing Team. Candidates must have extensive community nursing experience, advanced clinical qualifications, and leadership capabilities. This role involves providing care and potentially leading service improvements within the team. The position offers varied responsibilities and opportunities to impact children’s health positively.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered with evidence of relevant post grad qualification.
• Experience within a Children’s Community Nursing Team.
• Leadership experience within children and young people's services.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality specialist care in the community.
• Work within an integrated network of services for children.
• Lead service projects and engage the team in changes.

Skills

Extensive experience within Community Children’s Nursing

Advanced clinical studies completion

Leadership qualification/experience

Education

Relevant post grad qualification

Job description

Are you a passionate, energetic and an experienced Community Children\'s Nurse?

An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time band 7 Senior Children\'s Nurse to work within the Bexley and Greenwich Community Children\'s Nursing Team and integrated Hospital at Home Team.

The post holder will be a Children\'s Nurse with extensive knowledge and experience of working within the community, thus being an exceptional role model and able to demonstrate evidence of up to date academic development post registration.

The team provides a seven day service from 08.00 to 20:30, there is also 24 hour on call provision for children & young people who require end of life care at home.

Main duties of the job

The CCN/HAH is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and children\'s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To deputise for the team manager when required, to clinically lead on service projects and developments including facilitate the engagement of the team in change management and service innovations.

This is a post suitable for a Children\'s Community Nurse who should have extensive experience of working within a Community Children\'s Nursing Team and academic qualifications set within the person specification

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children\'s centres, schools and people\'s homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary\'s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We\'re Kind
• We\'re Listen
• We\'re Care

Job responsibilities

You will work within an integrated Children\'s Nursing team covering both CCN/HAH, the role as a community Children\'s Nurse is highly varied . We are one large team covering both borough\'s of Greenwich & Bexley. The caseload is varied with referrals of CYP who have complex medical needs, long term health conditions and short term health conditions requiring rapid service input to enable CYP to be discharged from hospital early. Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of role responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of relevant post grad qualification NMC Registered
• Completion of advanced clinical studies

Experience

• Extensive experience of working within CYP CCNT environment
• Experience of relevant clinical competence

Leadership

• Qualification / experience in leadership
• Evidence of managing /leading within a CYP service

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.

Acorns Children\'s Centre Queen Mary\'s Hospital