Senior Acute Children's Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Tipner; Sur place; GBP 40 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Training and development

Supervision

Supportive team

Flexible hours

Résumé du poste

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced paediatric nurse to join the Community Outreach Assessment and Support Team (COAST) working across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. You will assess acutely unwell children by telephone, virtual and face-to-face methods, delivering safe and effective community care with autonomous decision-making.

Join a supportive, nurse‑led team with access to specialist paediatric advice.

Qualifications

• Deliver specialist nursing care to babies, children and young people with acute and short-term healthcare needs.
• Coordinate care and support timely discharge through urgent community pathways.
• Assess acutely unwell children and provide safe, evidence-based interventions in the home or community.

Responsabilités

• Deliver specialist nursing care, support and care coordination for babies, children and young people with acute and short-term healthcare needs.
• Support admission avoidance and facilitate safe, timely discharge through urgent care pathways in the community.
• Undertake telephone, virtual and face-to-face assessments, including autonomous assessment in home environments.
• Manage a caseload of children and young people, planning and delivering evidence-based care and interventions.
• Recognise deterioration, initiate appropriate actions and escalate to acute paediatric services as needed.
• Collaborate with families and MDTs to enable care at home where appropriate.
• Provide clinical supervision and development opportunities for junior staff with the Clinical Team Leader.
• Maintain high standards of practice through ongoing professional development.
• Participate in clinical supervision, safeguarding supervision, reflective practice and quality improvement.

Connaissances

Advanced assessment

Clinical decision‑making

Autonomous practice

Leadership

Supervision

Care coordination

Description du poste

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced paediatric nurse to join our Children's Outreach Assessment and Support Team (COAST) across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.

COAST provides responsive, nurse-led care for babies, children and young people with acute and short-term healthcare needs. Working closely with our Acute CCN colleagues, hospital paediatric teams, GPs and wider MDT, we assess and support children in the community, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating early discharge wherever possible.

You will undertake telephone, virtual and face-to-face assessments of acutely unwell children, using your clinical expertise and decision-making skills to deliver safe, effective care. You will work autonomously whilst being supported by an experienced and highly skilled team with access to specialist paediatric advice.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop acute assessment skills, expand your community experience and be part of an innovative service delivering care closer to home.

What we offer

• Advanced assessment and clinical decision-making opportunities
• Training and professional development
• Regular clinical, safeguarding and management supervision
• Leadership and service development opportunities
• A supportive team environment
• Service hours: 8am-8pm, 7 days a week,364 days a year

If you are passionate about improving outcomes and want to be part of a dynamic and evolving service, we would love to hear from you.

• Deliver specialist nursing care, support and care coordination for babies, children and young people with acute and short-term healthcare needs.
• Support admission avoidance and facilitate safe, timely discharge through delivery of urgent care pathways in the community.
• Undertake telephone, virtual and face-to-face assessments, including autonomous assessment of acutely unwell children within their home environment.
• Manage a caseload of children and young people, planning and delivering evidence-based care and interventions.
• Recognise the deteriorating child, initiate appropriate interventions and ensure safe escalation of care, working closely with acute paediatric services, primary care, ambulance services and other partners.
• Work collaboratively with families and multidisciplinary teams to enable children and young people to receive care at home wherever appropriate.
• Provide clinical support, supervision and developmental opportunities for junior staff alongside the Clinical Team Leader.
• Maintain high standards of clinical practice through continued professional development and evidence-based care.
• Actively participate in clinical supervision, safeguarding supervision, reflective practice and quality improvement initiatives

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities.

With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

£39,959 to £48,117 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata