Community Children's Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sidcup; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Main area: Children & Young People

Grade: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Evening and weekend shifts will be required on a pro rata basis)

Job ref: 277-6688591-CYP-B

Site: Acorns Children's Centre, Queen Mary's Hospital

Town: Sidcup

Salary: £34,521 - £41,956 pa inc

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

The Community Children’s nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: acute and long term conditions, children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care.

This is a post suitable for a Children’s Nurse who should have an interest in or a willingness to develop and extend specialised skills and knowledge within a community setting.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring the Community Children’s Nursing and Hospital at Home Service (0-19 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.
• To work as part of the team providing nursing assessments and interventions to children.
• To work in partnership with children and families to implement individualised care plans to meet medical and nursing needs.
• To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual children’s care plans.
• To refer children to acute and other services as appropriate and required.
• To work collaboratively with other agencies to deliver clinical care pathways for children and families.
• To work as part of the Community Children’s Nursing Team to provide support in an area of special interest from acute to community settings.
• To provide support with specialist training to meet the child’s needs. This may be to the child, their family or other professionals working with the child in a variety of community settings.
• To attend specialist clinics with families to work towards multi professional assessment and care planning with the child and family.
• To work as part of a Multidisciplinary team to ensure a smooth discharge from acute care to community settings as well as smooth transitions into Adult Services.
• To participate in CAF/TAC, becoming a key worker for families where appropriate.

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 Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work within an integrated Children's Nursing team covering both CCN & H@H, the role as a community children's nurse is highly varied. We are one large team covering both boroughs of Greenwich & Bexley. The caseload is varied with referrals of CYP who have complex medical needs, long term health conditions and short term health conditions requiring rapid service input to enable CYP to be discharged from hospital early.

Person specification

Education

• RSCN or RN (child) or Learning Disability Diploma / degree level.
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

• Clinical skills in paediatric nursing
• Experience in assessing children’s care needs, planning implementation and evaluation of care plans.
• Experience of joint working together with other professionals.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Evidence of working as part of a team

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.