Paediatric Outreach Nurse

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Community Children's Nurse, where you'll be part of a dedicated team caring for children in their homes and community settings. This role involves managing complex health needs, delivering compassionate care, and working closely with families to ensure the best outcomes for young patients. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive work environment, this position offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of children and their families. Embrace the opportunity to grow your career within a family-friendly organization that values diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

NHS pension

Access to NHS discount schemes

Learning and development opportunities

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered Children's Nurse with extensive paediatric experience.
• Teaching/Assessing Certificate or equivalent is essential.

Responsibilities

• Create individual care plans and deliver high-quality care.
• Work effectively with families in complex emotional situations.

Skills

Flexibility

Ability to cope with different work environments

Education

Registered Children’s Nurse

Teaching/Assessing Certificate or equivalent

Evidence of further continued professional development

Job description

Main area: Community Children's Nurse Grade Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Flexible days of the week)

Job ref: 434-CR6646810-C

Site: Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Town: Aylesbury

Salary: per annum pro rata

Closing: 16/02/2025 23:59

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world-renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics.
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services.
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services.
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family-friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

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 specialties 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.

The service runs from 8 am to 6 pm Monday-Friday and 10 am-3 pm Saturday, Sunday, and Bank Holidays. We also provide on-call service for end-of-life care when required.

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

Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work!

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?

We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant, there is the option for secondment; all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number.

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.

If 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 the closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

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.

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.