Providing Assessment and Treatment for Children at Home Nurse

Job overview

This position offers the post holder an exciting opportunity to join the PATCH team “Providing Assessment and Treatment for Children at Home”, with support from the NWL London PATCH Team and the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) and Paediatric Ward Senior Management team at St Mary’s site.

The post holder will use their clinical experience and skills to independently assess and manage acutely unwell children, ensuring all children referred to the PATCH team receive high quality, compassionate and effective care at home.

The post holder will utilise face to face, virtual and telephone consultations and where escalation of treatment is required, liaise with the hospital teams ensuring timely care is maintained. This role requires travel to patient’s homes via public transport and lone working

Main duties of the job

• Use their experience and skills in the independent assessment and management of acutely unwell children to ensure all children referred to the PATCH team receive high quality, effective, individualised care that is compassionate and caring
• Provide clinical supervision and clinical training for the junior members of the PATCH team and other nurses that rotate through the team
• Work closely with the PATCH lead nurse, PED and paediatric ward teams and participate in education, ensuring a high standard of care is delivered to all children and their families
• Assist with the clinical governance and audit of PATCH to monitor effectiveness and ensure care is timely and evidence-based
• Assist in the reduction of acute admissions to inpatient hospital beds by supporting children and families in the community to self-manage conditions
• Ensure safeguarding issues are acted upon promptly and appropriately

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.