Children's Community Nurse

Job overview

Band 5 - Children's Community Nurse - 34.5 hours per week

The Children’s Community Nursing Team is integral to the Ambulatory Model that is offered and delivered within the Tameside and Glossop locality.  The team accepts direct referrals from the emergency department, children’s observation and assessment unit, children’s ward and local GP’s working hard to facilitate early discharge from hospital in addition to providing a rapid response service to prevent unnecessary hospital attendance/admission.

The Children’s Community Nursing Team  provides nurse-led clinics to ensure that children and young people  with non-acute conditions receive a service that is close to home.

You must be a registered children’s nurse and have extensive clinical knowledge and skills in caring for children and young people with a variety of needs in acute services to enable you to practice autonomously and use your clinical decision making skills.

Experience of working within the community setting is desirable. You should have excellent inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to demonstrate sound theoretical evidence based knowledge.

You should be committed to the delivery of high standards of care, and have the ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The role includes a large amount of lone working and as such we have robust policies in place to safeguard individual Children’s Community Nurses.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic individual to join our Children’s Community Nursing Team.

You will work with an established and experienced team, supporting the delivery of skilled paediatric care to children and young people with acute and long-term conditions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.  The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.