Senior Children's Community Nurse

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Children's Community Nursing team as a Senior Children's community Nurse. In this role you will work as a senior member of the team with specific responsibility for planning, delivering and supervising care for children and young people with acute conditions, complex needs and disabilities, and their families, in their own homes, schools, clinics and other community settings.

This is a one year fixed term contract of 30 hours per week to cover maternity leave.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of the Children's Community Nursing Team with responsibility for managing a defined caseload of children. The post holder will assess, coordinate, deliver and supervise home-based packages of care for individual children on your caseload. This will be working within the child / young person’s own home, school or other community based settings the child / young person may attend.

You should be flexible in your approach, have good time management and IT skills and be able to work on your own initiative as well as within a team. The post holder will be expected to develop excellent partnership working relationships in order to provide seamless services to Children and Young people.

Successful candidates should also have knowledge of Safeguarding policies and procedures. Having a degree of flexibility, being responsive to change, and having the ability to work in a creative way are also essential requirements for this post.

The post holder will participate in the 24 hour on call service for palliative and end of life care to provide 24 hour on call support on a pro rata (weekly basis).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work as a senior member of the Children’s Community Nursing team with specific responsibility for planning, delivering and supervising care for children and young people with acute conditions, complex needs and disabilities, and their families, in their own homes, schools, clinics and other community settings.

The post holder will be expected to demonstrate high levels of autonomy and decision making skills and undertake systematic, comprehensive health assessments. The post holder will ensure that high standards of service/care are maintained and ensure that all services are responsive to the needs of children and their families. They will also use every opportunity to promote health and well-being of children, recognising that parents need to be empowered to care for their child.  The post holder will teach and provide expert knowledge and advice to other Registered Nurse, Health Care Support Workers and Health Care professionals within the Trust, Specialist Services Directorate, and Primary Healthcare Teams in relation to clinical care and other related topics.

See attached Job Description for full details.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.