Children's Community Nurse Team Leader

Job overview

IOW NHS Trust

Community Children’s Nurse Team Leader

Band 7 (£46,148 - £52,809)

We are looking for an enthusiastic Children's Community Nurse that holds the CCN SPQ qualification and registration on the Specialist Community part of the NMC register to lead the CCN team for 1 year to cover maternity leave.

You will lead the Children’s Community Nursing Team providing high quality holistic, family centred nursing care for children with long-term and complex health care needs on the Isle of Wight. You will act as a nurse advisor to families caring for children with long-term illness/complex needs in the community setting and provide education and advice to community care providers and acute services, to enable them to meet the needs of the complex patient.

You will co-ordinate discharge plans and care packages of children and young people with complex needs. You will have day-to-day service delivery responsibility for the respite service and ensure that relationships and own behaviour is managed in line with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust competencies.

• The Community Children’s Nurse Team Leader is responsible for the ongoing assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, for the CCN caseload.
• The Children’s Community Team Leader will lead the skilled nursing care to children, including those with terminal and palliative care needs in their own homes and other community settings.
• Improve the outcomes for children who require care in the community including those with continuing care and long-term complex health needs and give support to the family and co-ordinate their packages of care.
• The post holder will have the ability to work independently under own initiative with the support and guidance of the Matron for Children and Young People. This will involve supporting junior staff and parents to enable them to care for the child or young person at home.
• To provide teaching to children and their carers within the community/education and acute care settings.
• To provide education to schools, respite services, care packages and other professionals in the ‘Team around the Child’, taking responsibility for setting and maintaining competency frameworks for each child within the caseload.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of roles and responsibilities

Working for our organisation

We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

Person specification

Qualifications and Experience

• Specialist Practice Qualification in Children’s Community Nursing
• Registered Sick Children’s Nurse or Registered Nurse Child
• Evidence of post registration nursing qualifications at level 4 or above, in aspects of complex care management, e.g. long-term ventilation
• At least 3 years postqualification experience in Community Children’s Nursing or in working with Children with Complex needs.
• Experience in the management of personal budgets
• Evidence of managing of junior staff
• Post registration teaching qualification.
• Car driver with a clean valid UK driving licence

Qualifications

• Evidence of further qualification in children with complex needs.
• Working towards or completion of Masters level qualification
• Nurse Prescriber V300