Senior Children's Community Nurse

Job overview

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic registered children's nurse looking for a new challenge? Look no further! Our Children's Community Nursing Team has a vacancy for maternity leave cover, and we want you to join us.

As a Children's Community Nurse (CCN), you will be crucial in delivering high-quality nursing care to children in their home environments. You will conduct assessments, develop care plans, implement nursing interventions, and ensure proper documentation and follow-up.

Join our team and make a difference in the lives of children and their families.

We would love to hear from you, whether you are an experienced community nurse or currently working in the acute sector. We welcome your application if you have transferable skills and a willingness to learn. We highly value your background and experience and would be thrilled to consider you for this opportunity.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous practitioner responsible for helping lead a team of Nurses to provide high-quality, specialist nursing care to children in their own homes.

To provide continuing responsibility for assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating nursing care for patients.

Work with other local health care professionals/providers to maintain high-quality care and promote family-centred practice.

To continue to develop and maintain close links between Community and Hospital based services.

To be responsible for supporting junior members and students by developing their skills and providing mentorship through their practice placements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To initiate appropriate work, accepting referrals and be able to work autonomously with the child and family in the community setting.

To regularly attend and liaise with acute hospital colleagues to enable timely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow-up in the community setting, to prevent hospital attendance and re-attendance.

To provide a holistic, autonomous and clinical nursing service using evidence based practice.  To carry out initial assessments/home visits and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for all patients for whom he/she has continuing responsibility.  To provide advice contributing to the well-being of the patient and participate in health promotion.  (eg burns advice)

To ensure medical needs and instructions are carried out in accordance with nursing and midwifery council guidelines and ensure accurate record keeping (RIO system used for client records). To create reports for specific formal meetings such as child protection case conferences.  A regular requirement to use score computer software in order to create oxygen saturation reports.

To carry out specialist procedures in the community settings eg administration of intravenous antibiotics and chemotherapy, care of central venous access devices, changing of tracheostomy and naso-gastric tubes

To assemble and demonstrate the use of specialised equipment in the home eg suction machines, saturation monitors. To be familiar with safe manual handling practices and implement these within the home setting

To use clinical judgement and expertise in assessing and implementing change during clinical visits eg assessment of respiratory condition and management of any changes

To use clinical knowledge and expertise in deciding appropriate administration of drugs, route to be administered and dose of the drug, within a set of defined parameters prescribed by medical colleagues e.g. in the end of life care setting.

To use clinical knowledge

To teach, support and guide patients and those with parental responsibility in relative nursing procedures and to help them carry out effective nursing care.

To be familiar with practices regarding the management of hazardous/biological substances and follow trust policies regarding their disposal.

To be chemotherapy competent, or working towards competence and safely deliver care in the community for children and young people with cancer with the guidance of the paediatric oncology nurse lead.

To provide an out of hours on call service for children and families at end of life.