Specialist Nurse - Child Development Centre

NHS; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Haywards Heath seeks an enthusiastic Specialist Nurse to join their Paediatric team. In this role, you will support children with complex needs, utilizing your advanced clinical skills. Key duties include assessments, service development, and team collaboration. Ideal candidates will possess a nursing qualification and experience in community settings. The position offers professional development and the chance to make a significant impact on children's health.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• Experience of multi-disciplinary / multi-agency working.
• Minimum three years as a Registered Nurse in the community.
• Experience managing sensitive and complex information.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to service development and protocol implementation.
• Undertake assessments of children and families.
• Coordinate with MDT members and lead training sessions.

Skills

Effective verbal and written communication

Ability to work on own initiative

Multi-disciplinary team collaboration

Assessment and evaluation of care

Education

RN (Child/Adult)

Degree in relevant subject area

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced Specialist Nurse to work as part of our Paediatric multidisciplinary team at the Nightingale Child Development Centre in Haywards Heath.

The Specialist Nurse role will involve using advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to work alongside an MDT team to support the needs of children and young people with complex needs who are known to Child Development Service. Training and professional development will be offered as part of your continuing development, and to help you meet the skills, knowledge and competencies required for this post.

This role would suit applicants with an interest in contributing to the Neuro-Developmental pathway and developing their skills supporting children on the social communication pathway or with a recent diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Condition and their families.

Main Duties:

• Contributes to the development of services, protocols, pathways, monitor workload and implement service developments/team objectives.
• Undertakes assessments of individual children and their families which can include assessment and post diagnostic support of complex conditions.
• Uses clinical judgement and individual decision making about nursing care requirements; assesses, plans, delivers, evaluates and records care without supervision to address health related problems/needs when needs are relatively stable and consistent with others in the caseload.
• Co-ordinates and liaises with MDT members, delegating activities to a range of team members and influencing individuals to reach decisions and take resultant actions.
• Promotes health through broad programmes/initiatives.
• Organises and leads training sessions for individual/groups of CYP parents and families.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of policy and care delivery strategies, acting as a source of advice for junior members of the nursing team on clinical matters and decision making.
• Able to initiate interventions to improve family resilience and reduce risk of family breakdown. Able to respond appropriately when working with children with disabilities and their families regarding the impact of adverse life events, including how family health history, mental health and parental lifestyle choices impact on the child's health and development.

About Us:

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us? We have positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing. We offer varied environments, flexible working options, excellent training and development opportunities, and cost-effective workplace nurseries.

Our values -- Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence -- guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• RN (Child/Adult) AND with an additional community qualification ie: Health Visitor/Specialist Community Public Health.
• Educated to degree level in relevant subject area or evidence of equivalent experience.

Experience:

• Experience of multi- disciplinary / multi-agency working.
• Minimum three years working as a Registered Nurse with families in the community.
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive and sometimes contentious information.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Ability to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative, make decisions and prioritise.
• Ability to relate theory to practice.
• Ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member.
• Ability to act as an educator on a 1:1 basis.
• Ability to assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.