Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-BCHS-6286139
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woburn Court
- Town
- Bedford
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/06/2024
Employer heading
Children's Community Nurse
Band 6
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
Are you a passionate, innovative and experienced Nurse?
Have you got experience of working with children and young people with acute, short or long term/complex nursing needs?
Want to deliver holistic nursing care within a professional and supportive team?
Keen to develop your leadership skills and influence quality clinical practice?
We have a great opportunity for you to join our Children’s Community Nursing (CCN) Team;
You will be leading holistic assessment, care planning and review of clinical care for children and young people with a range of health needs to optimise their health outcomes.
All our CCN’s take the lead on an area of community clinical practice e.g. IV’s, enteral, palliative care, respiratory, oncology, It is important for you to develop and continually influence good quality practice in the community and with partner organisations.
We recognise it may feel daunting to move into a leadership role in the community setting, where you’ll be expected to lead and work independently.
If you are an experienced Band 5 and have the required clinical skills and leadership experience we would still love to hear from you. We have a successful development programme to support you growing a community career and achieve competencies for the Band 6 role within a year.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Main duties of the job
The post requires the job holder to have excellent communication skills, time management skills, clinical competence to deliver clinical nursing care independently and respond to unexpected demands and scenarios in a variety of community settings.
The ability to travel daily during the working day sometimes at short notice is therefore essential.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Co-ordinates the day-to-day provision of the CCN caseload, ensuring patient’s needs are met, new referrals triaged in a timely manner and workload allocated according to need.
To undertake clinical assessments, implement, deliver, and evaluate nursing care for children and young people within a defined caseload in clinics, patient’s homes, schools or other appropriate community settings.
To deliver skilled clinical nursing care which may include administration of Intravenous therapy, injections, syringe pumps, blood taking via central venous access devices, wound care, nursing support for all types of enteral feeding tubes, tracheostomy care, bowel and bladder devices.
Using a case-co-ordination approach support families to understand and manage their child’s condition safely at home and in collaboration with multi-agency providers to ensure the child’s aspirations and health needs are central to decision making and maximise their opportunities
to develop.
To provide patient/parent/carer training and assessment of competence.
To assist in the discharge planning process of a child’s transfer from hospital to home to identify clinical care and support that can be safely delivered in the community.
To act as a signpost for families enabling them to access support from a range of statutory and voluntary organisations.
If you have a non-medical prescribing qualification, you will be expected to practice as a prescriber as part of this role.
To ensure that clinical guidelines and electronic patient record systems are evidence based and maintain clinical effectiveness.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSCN or RN Child/Learning disability with NMC registration
- MSPP or other relevant teaching/assessment qualification.
- CAKES - or equivalent Children’s Assessment Knowledge Evaluation and Skills course
Desirable criteria
- Non Medical Prescribing (V300)Course
- If not already completed then there needs to be a willingness to undertake Specialist Practitioner Qualification (Children’s Community Nursing)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of caring for children with short term acute and long term conditions
- Experience of working under pressure to prioritise the needs of a clinical area
- Experience of allocating workload and supporting staff to maintain patient safety.
- Demonstrates an understanding of Community Nursing
Desirable criteria
- Experience of day to day supervision and/or line management of staff
- Experience of nursing children with long term conditions
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience in delivering a range of clinical nursing care for example:- • Administration of Intravenous medicines via a range of devices. • Care of enteral feeding tubes • Wound care
- Evidence of teaching others and assessing clinical competence of parents, non -registered staff and carers
- Ability to develop effective working relationships with the child and family
- Ability to work in a multi-agency team
- Shows a personal commitment to safeguarding children
- Ability to travel across the County sometimes at short notice
Desirable criteria
- Clinical competence in • Clinical assessment of a sick child • Venepuncture and phlebotomy • Tracheostomy care • Stoma care for bowel and bladders
- Experience of case co-ordination
- Knowledge of electronic patient record system e.g. Systmone.
- Understanding of Education, Health and Care plans and the SEND Agenda
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Wardley
- Job title
- CCN Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03007906893
- Additional information
Gary Meager
Clinical Development Manager
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 07816317875
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