Continuing care Senior Practitioner

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse to join our Children’s Continuing Care Team as a Senior Practitioner, supporting children and young people with complex and evolving health needs across Islington, Camden, and Haringey.

You will lead on clinical practice, case management, and service development for children with complex physical health conditions, autism, and behaviours that challenge access to healthcare. This role involves working collaboratively with families, schools, the ICB, social care, and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure safe, high-quality, and coordinated care in community settings.

We welcome applications from adult-trained nurses with relevant paediatric experience, as well as those with a background in learning disability nursing and mental health. We also understand that moving into a band 7 leadership role can be daunting and offer band 6 developmental roles, allowing an individual to start as a 6 with a clear plan to progress to a 7.

As a senior nurse, you will provide supervision and leadership to junior staff, take a lead role in safeguarding and risk management, and advocate strongly for the voice of the child. You will also contribute to quality improvement and innovation within the service.

The post include is mostly Monday to Friday but may include weekends and nights when new packages are started.

If you’re ready to lead and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To help ensure the identification of training needs for all carers in order to provide appropriate training and learning opportunities to achieve the agreed level of competency.

To help facilitate and organise the delivery and the evaluation of training for staff/ family members and other community organisations (such as Respite centres/ after school clubs and holiday schemes.

To provide learning opportunities and support to enable individuals to achieve objectives.

To Sign off and train Personal health budget Pa’s in all specialist training.

To demonstrate & deliver evidence-based nursing practice.

To deliver clinical care on packages directly in the home.

To help participate in the continuing development of the nursing process, including  the creation and updating of specific guidelines and protocols.

To promote health and comfort, maintaining dignity and privacy, and a quality of life for the child.

To ensure a safe environment and the safe use of equipment.

To ensure all documentation is complete and up to date.

In the event of hospital admission to assist in the skilled nursing care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To take a clinical and professional role in the facilitation and organisation of the care of children and young people with continuing health care needs. Many of whom are dependent on technology to live, in the home and the community.  The post-holder will help develop and supervise a team of carers to ensure all aspects of cares are delivered safely to an allocated caseload. This will be in partnership with the family to ensure high quality care is delivered to the child requiring complex care in the home and the community.

The post holder will be a part of the referral and assessment process for new children and young people and will utilise the National continuing care framework.  The post holder will also complete the on-going continuing care assessment in lines with local policy using the NHS England National Framework.

The Post holder will act up in the absence of the Community Matron for CYP Continuing care team; with excellent leadership and development opportunities.