Senior Practitioner for Children's Continuing Care

Whittington NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Practitioner to lead clinical practice in the Children's Continuing Care Team. You will support children with complex health needs, providing supervision and leadership to staff, as well as collaborating with families and multidisciplinary teams. The position requires prior experience in paediatric nursing and a commitment to safeguarding and high-quality care. Flexible shifts may include nights and weekends.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Access to transport links

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience working within paediatrics.
• Experience with children requiring complex care.
• Strong clinical assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of nurses and carers providing care to children.
• Conduct clinical assessments for new referrals.
• Ensure high-quality nursing practice in home and hospital settings.

Skills

Experience with children with complex health needs

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Safeguarding knowledge

Education

Registered Nurse with paediatric training

Adult nursing training

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse to join our Children\'s Continuing Care Team as a Senior Practitioner, supporting children and young people with complex and evolving health needs across Islington, Camden, and Haringey.

You will lead on clinical practice, case management, and service development for children with complex physical health conditions, autism, and behaviours that challenge access to healthcare. This role involves working collaboratively with families, schools, the ICB, social care, and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure safe, high-quality, and coordinated care in community settings.

We welcome applications from adult-trained nurses with relevant paediatric experience, as well as those with a background in learning disability nursing and mental health.

As a senior nurse, you will provide supervision and leadership to junior staff, take a lead role in safeguarding and risk management, and advocate strongly for the voice of the child. You will also contribute to quality improvement and innovation within the service.

The post is mostly Monday to Friday but may include weekends and nights when new packages are started.

We offer a supportive, integrated care environment with opportunities for professional development, academic study, and access to excellent transport links, a pool car, and season ticket loan.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Responsibilities

To supervise, teach and support a team of nurses and carers that provide health care support for children receiving a continuing care package. There will be a requirement for the post holder to work clinically with carers and within the family home clinically and shifts will vary according to the package and training requirement.

To ensure that nursing practice is consistently of highest quality and based on research findings in both the child\'s home and the hospital setting. This will require shift working, many of which are night duties and flexible work patterns are available.

To clinically assess new referrals using the continuing care framework in place applying and following local policy. To have knowledge of the continuing care framework to implement this as appropriate for our caseload.

To understand and implement all pathways within the framework and local policy.

To assist the discharge lead nurse with the process of the child\'s transfer from hospital to home.

To work in partnership with the family, understanding the needs of the child and family in the community.

To be the lead professional for an allocated caseload within the continuing care team.

To lead and work in partnership with the band 6 nursing team to ensure records of care training and required competency booklets to enable carers to delivery individualised care is maintained.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To supervision, teach and support a team of nurses and carers that provide health care support for children receiving a continuing care package.

There will be a requirement for the post holder to work clinically with carers and within the family home clinically and shifts will vary according to the package and training requirement.

To ensure that nursing practice is consistently of highest quality and based on research findings in both the child\'s home and the hospital setting. This will require shift working, many of which are night duties and flexible work patterns are available.

To clinically assess new referrals using the continuing care framework in place applying and following local policy.

To have knowledge of the continuing care framework to implement this as appropriate for our caseload.

To understand and implement all pathways within the framework and local policy.

To assist the discharge lead nurse with the process of the child\'s transfer from hospital to home.

To work in partnership with the family, understanding the needs of the child and family in the community.

To be the lead professional for an allocated caseload within the continuing care team.

To lead and work in partnership with the band 6 nursing team to ensure records of care training and required competency booklets to enable carers to delivery individualised care is maintained.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Person specification

Clinical experience

Essential criteria

• 2 years experience working within paediatrics


• Experience working with children with complex health needs

Desirable criteria

• Experience working within children\'s continuing care


• experience caring for children with a tracheostomy


• experience caring for children requiring ventilation


• experience caring for children with behaviours that challenge


• experience working with children in the community

Leadership experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

Desirable criteria

• Experience managing a team


• Experience managing change


• Experience in managing conflict

Service development experience

Essential criteria

• Experience managing risk

Desirable criteria

• Experience in service development


• Experience in managing a complaint

Safeguarding

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.


• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.


• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.


• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.


• Participate in required training and supervision.


• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.


2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.


2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.


3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.


4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.


• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.


• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

For further support on submitting an application please refer to the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit: https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1

Documents to download

• Band 7 JDPS (PDF, 328.4KB)


• Person specification (PDF, 328.4KB)


• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)