Childrens Hospital at Home Nurse - Grimsby

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 to join our new  children's hospital at home community team service at Grimsby.  However the post holder maybe required to work in Scunthorpe. The post holder must be an enthusiastic and positive individual, with a can do attitude and demonstrate experience as a paediatric community nurse.

Paediatric community nursing is forever evolving and the service requires the post holder to lead with the other members of hospital at home  team and work in partnership with other multi disciplinary teams.

The service covers a 7 day service including bank holidays and operates between 8am and 6pm Monday to Sunday.

Main duties of the job

Working within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and be responsible for ones own professional conduct and monitor these aspects with the paediatric community team

Work jointly with other team members and to influence the overall efficiency and development of paediatric community nursing from hospital to home

identify and develop clinical changes to working practice and working in different ways to enhance service provision and work with managers to achieve this

provide daily leadership and clinical support for community and service users (patients, parents/carers primary and secondary care)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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