Children's Community Nurse

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic registered Children's Nurse to join our Children's Community Nursing Team (CCNT). As a Children's Community Nurse (CCN), you will play a crucial role in delivering high- quality nursing care to children in their home environments. Your primary responsibilities will include conducting assessments, developing care plans, implementing nursing interventions, and ensuring proper documentation and follow- up. This is a part-time position, offering a 33-hour working week, which will also involve participating in a weekend rota and providing support for an end-of-life on-call rota when necessary.

Main duties of the job

  • To maintain a professional attitude and work in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct at all times acting as a good role model. To be aware of own learning needs and limitations and to maintain professional expertise by embracing the concept of lifelong learning. To keep up to date with mandatory training.
  • Maintain accurate, systematic, and timely record keeping including recording of clinical data.
  • To work as an autonomous and lone specialist practitioner
  • Support and deal with patients, parents, relatives, and staff in stressful situations and recognising the need for counselling and refer on as appropriate.
  • To work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care to families
  • To work flexibly to facilitate a 7-day service. This will include working weekends and bank holidays as per the roster. Additionally, there will be an expectation to participate in a 24-hour on-call rota when providing care for end-of-life patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and personal specification for further detailed information.

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.

Person specification:

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate leadership skills in supporting the team.
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply research evidence to clinical practice and professional issues.
  • Demonstrate the ability to supervise and mentor and assess more junior staff.
  • Demonstrate ability to work with and to use resources effectively as part of the MDT.
  • Ability to prioritise/adapt quickly and organise own workload and workload of the wider team.
  • IV competent.
  • Experience of caring for children with Enteral feeding devices.

Desirable

  • Cannulation & Phlebotomy
  • Experience of caring for children with Central Venous Access Device
  • Wound Care
  • Ability to deliver teaching sessions to schools and families

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrate an understanding of normal child development and the sick child.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of child safeguarding issues.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of managing resources.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of oncology and chemotherapy

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care according to individual needs.
  • Experience working with children who have complex health, long term conditions and/or palliative care needs.
  • Demonstrate experience of mentoring and understanding of the assessment process for student nurses and any other member of the MDT.
  • Recent experience of caring for an acutely unwell child.

Desirable

  • Community Nursing
  • Evidence of audit or research project.
  • Experience in conducting appraisal/IPR.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse (Children)

Desirable

  • Degree in Community Specialist Community Children’s nursing
  • Teaching & Assessing Module/course
  • Clinical Leadership Programme.
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