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Job summary

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Continuing care Senior Practitioner
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 9 months (Contract will end on the 10th January)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-3822
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northern Health centre
Town
London
Salary
£58,133 - £65,261 Per Annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/04/2026 23:59

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Continuing care Senior Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse to join our Children’s Continuing Care Team as a maternity cover 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 include is mostly Monday to Friday but may include weekends and nights when new packages are started.

If you’re ready to lead and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To help ensure the identification of training needs for all carers in order to provide appropriate training and learning opportunities to achieve the agreed level of competency.

To help facilitate and organise the delivery and the evaluation of training for staff/ family members and other community organisations (such as Respite centres/ after school clubs and holiday schemes.

To provide learning opportunities and support to enable individuals to achieve objectives.

To Sign off and train Personal health budget Pa’s in all specialist training.

To demonstrate & deliver evidence-based nursing practice.

To deliver clinical care on packages directly in the home.

To help participate in the continuing development of the nursing process, including  the creation and updating of specific guidelines and protocols.

To promote health and comfort, maintaining dignity and privacy, and a quality of life for the child.

To ensure a safe environment and the safe use of equipment.

To ensure all documentation is complete and up to date.

In the event of hospital admission to assist in the skilled nursing care.

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 take a clinical and professional role in the facilitation and organisation of the care of children and young people with continuing health care needs. Many of whom are dependent on technology to live, in the home and the community.  The post-holder will help develop and supervise a team of carers to ensure all aspects of cares are delivered safely to an allocated caseload. This will be in partnership with the family to ensure high quality care is delivered to the child requiring complex care in the home and the community.

The post holder will be a part of the referral and assessment process for new children and young people and will utilise the National continuing care framework.  The post holder will also complete the on-going continuing care assessment in lines with local policy using the NHS England National Framework.

The Post holder will act up in the absence of the Community Matron for CYP Continuing care team; with excellent leadership and development opportunities. 

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RN (Child Branch) or RSCN.
  • Current NMC Registration
  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development and Post Registration

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Leadership qualities, dynamic and positive approach to service.
  • Ability to work with and lead the multi-professional team
  • Proven ability to work well under pressure

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • 5 years post registration experience within the paediatric setting
  • Experience of working within a community setting with complex needs children and young people
  • Evidence of clinical management experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
ana marote
Job title
paediatric integrated care nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 316 1967
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