Community Childrens Nurse

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust; West Bromwich; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider dedicated to improving lives in a diverse community. This role in the Community Children's Team offers a unique opportunity to provide essential nursing care to children with complex health needs across various settings. You'll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and support families, making a meaningful impact on their lives. With a commitment to staff wellbeing and professional development, this organization is an excellent place to grow your career while contributing to the community's health outcomes. Embrace this chance to be part of a transformative healthcare journey!

Benefits

Health and Wellbeing Support

Bespoke Training and Development Programmes

Flexible Working Options

Real Living Wage

Support for Homelessness Prevention

Qualifications

• Must have RN Child branch/RSCN and NMC registration.
• Experience in acute paediatric/community setting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care and support to children with complex health needs.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams and manage operational tasks.

Skills

Communication Skills

Decision Making

Autonomous Work

Team Collaboration

Leadership

Education

RN Child branch/RSCN

NMC Registration

Degree in Specialty

ENB 998 or Equivalent

Leadership Course

Job description

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.

We have three strategic objectives:

1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;

We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.

Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.

Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.

Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.

Job overview

The Community Childrens Team is based in Sandwell Special Schools, provides nursing care and support to children/young people and their families, with a wide range of complex health care needs including chronic and life limiting conditions. Care is provided across the special schools, the child/young person's home and a variety of other settings.

We are looking for a motivated, experienced nurse to join our team.

You will be required to work 22.5 hours per week to support the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work in partnership with the Community Childrens Team, multidisciplinary team, education staff and families to support the children on our caseload.

The post holder will need to have excellent communication and decision making skills and be able to manage complex and difficult situations in a sensitive manner.

As a band 6 CCN, you will be expected to offer expert advice and guidance to colleagues in the team. In the absence of the team leader you will be required to deputise and take charge of the operational management of the team. The applicant needs to be able to work autonomously and as part of the team.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RN Child branch/RSCN
• NMC registration
• Degree in specialty where available or willing to work towards
• ENB 998 (teaching and assessing in Clinical/D33/D32 Practice) or equivalent course place top secure
• Leadership course

Experience

• Relevant experience in acute paediatric/community setting
• Relevant experience at band 5 or above
• Proven experience in the involvement in teaching and learning initiatives
• Experience of audit initiatives and other quality initiatives
• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality patient care
• Experience and evidence in implementing change
• Evidence of implementing research based practice

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.