Paediatric Hospital @ Home Nurse/Community children's nurse

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; Islington; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in London is seeking a Paediatric Hospital @ Home Nurse to provide nursing care for children in their homes. Responsibilities include accepting referrals, delivering treatment, and working autonomously. Ideal candidates will have a degree in children's nursing and experience in a community setting. This role offers competitive salary and mileage claims for travel.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children with long term conditions and children with special needs.
• Experience of team working.
• Being able to work autonomously without constant supervision.

Responsibilities

• Deliver acute nursing care to patients within the home setting.
• Accept referrals, review patients, liaison with local inpatient units.
• Complete all tasks associated with the role.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to prioritize clinical workload

Experience working in the community

Education

Degree in children's nursing

RSCN or RN (child branch)

Specialist practitioner in children's community nursing

Evidence of mentorship or Preceptorship

Job description

Paediatric Hospital @ Home Nurse/Community children\'s nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Whittington Health NHS Trust Hospital @ Home/ Community Children\'s Nursing Service for the London boroughs of Islington, Camden and South Barnet. The team is based in North London at the Northern Health Centre, Holloway Road, Islington.

The service provides nursing care and support to children and young people at home as an alternative to hospital admission or as a method of reducing the length of stay in hospital.

We are looking for someone who can work flexible hours and weekends, has great work ethics, good team player and ability to work independently and coherently with multiple trusts.

Car drivers are essential to this role.

As a team, we will support all learning and development.

Main duties of the job

To provide and assist with the nursing care of unwell children in their homes and or place of care to reduce or avoid emergency admission to an acute setting.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

As a hospital @ home you will be responsible for delivering acute nursing care to patients within the home setting.

You will be responsible for accepting referrals, reviewing patients, liaising with the local inpatient units, delivering treatment, and completing all tasks associated to the role.

You will also be expected to be a car driver and travel to the following borough such as Islington, Camden and South Barnet.

We have allocated NHS trust cars which you will have access to; however you may need to drive your own car when required. We will support with mileage claims whilst you work with the trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RSCN or RN (child branch)
• Evidence of mentorship or Preceptorship
• Degree in children\'s nursing
• Specialist practitioner in children\'s community nursing
• Experience of working with children with long term conditions and children with special needs
• Experience of team working
• Being able to work autonomously without constant supervision.
• Experience of mentoring nursing students
• Experience of nursing in a diverse inner city community setting

Skills and Abilities and knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize clinical workload
• Experience working in the community

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.

£44,485 to £52,521 a year (pro rata) Including HCAS