Community Children’s Nurse

Job overview

Are you looking for a new and exciting community-based role, working within a supportive and friendly team?

This band 6 post will be for 37.5 hours per week on a 12 month contract. The service cover for the Community Children’s Nursing (CCN) team is 8am-8pm Mon-Friday, including Bank Holidays.

This exciting and varied role is looking for someone with post registration experience in paediatrics, with experience in teaching and assessing. Experience with working with children with complex needs and safeguarding experience is desirable. The CCN team strive continuously to improve the lives of those children and families for whom they care, acting as not only clinicians but advocates and advisors too.

You will be based primarily at L11, University of Reading, London Rd, RG1 5EX but will also cover the areas of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham.

Main duties of the job

• Holding a caseload for children with a wide range of medical and nursing needs across Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham

• Working within the CCN team whilst improving cohesive working between the CCN and specialist school nursing team.

• Acting as a keyworker for children and families and being the link between hospital and the community. This will include signposting to other appropriate sources of support and liaising with other professionals involved as applicable.

• Providing excellent standards of clinical nursing care, support and advice to children and their families, including regular reviews, visits and attending clinic appointments as needed.

• Being part of multidisciplinary meetings with allied professionals, including discharge planning meetings, safeguarding meetings, team meetings etc.

• Central line maintenance and all associated cares, including taking bloods as required.

• Administering medications such as IM injections and intravenous antibiotics.

• Raising concerns appropriately and being involved with safeguarding processes and attending any Child in Need / Child Protection meetings as required.

• To be part of the extension of the 8am-8pm service in conjunction with the other senior nursing staff as required.

• To be part of the Rapid Response rota alongside the Police if a child dies unexpectedly in the community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• RSCN/RNCB qualification

• Post registration experience in paediatrics

• Safeguarding knowledge and experience

• To work effectively as a team member

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work flexibly to meet service needs

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Claire Thompson on 07760 415776 who will be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.