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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 4 Children's Continuing Care Associate Practitioner to work within the Greenwich and Bexley Special Children’s Continuing care nursing team.

The post holder will be an individual that has experience working with children with complex healthcare and additional needs. You will also demonstrate commitment to continued development and innovation within the team.

We work as an integrated child & young people’s nursing service and you will be required to work closely with our local and tertiary hospitals, our children’s community nursing team and continuing care team.

The post holder will be actively involved in participating with the development and implementation of practice within the nursing team ensuring that evidenced based practice is being delivered. You will work closely with the children’s community nurses to carry out the care plans for the children that are within the continuing care team.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• To carry out care plans provided by the Children’s Community Nursing Team.
• To undertake skilled clinic tasks, for example enteral feeding (naso-gastric/ gastrostomy/jejunostomy), effective suctioning, changing oxygen probes, male and female catheterisation and basic life support following competency assessment.
• To maintain timely and accurate written electronic records in line with Trust and service policy and procedure.
• To be familiar with all equipment required to support the child and to report any deficiency immediately.
• To carry out and record defined safety checks of technical equipment during each shift reporting any issues to the family and community nursing team.
• To independently interpret observations, to recognise abnormal indicators and report to a registered nurse as required.

• To identify concerns and report to the family and continuing care nurse.
• To check and maintain a clean and safe environment and equipment when working.
• To identify emergency situations and take appropriate actions.
• To follow Trust policy and in line with training may administer routine medications.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care