Matron Children's Community Nursing Service
Job overview
Are you a highly skilled, visible and committed Children's Community Nurse? We are looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference to the health and well-being of children and young people in our community, whilst supporting and inspiring the teams to provide high quality care.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a cluster of innovative and dynamic Community Children’s Nursing services (Children's Continuing Care, CYP Specialist Inclusion School Nursing and Paediatric Continence Service) which are part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley & Greenwich.You will be leading teams that provide high quality specialist child-centred nursing care, in community settings, schools and the child's own home.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide visible clinical leadership to ensure that Children and Young people and their families/carers receive high quality, evidence-based care. They will be accountable for upholding standards and quality, ensuring a positive patient experience, maintaining patient safety, and promoting clinical effectiveness within the service.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Matron will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the Children's Continuing Care Service (including assessments and setting up care packages), CYP Specialist Inclusion School Nursing and Paediatric Continence Service.The role includes supervision of senior nurses.
Please see the Job Description attached for further information.
Person specification
Education /Qualifications
Essential criteria- RSCN or RN (child) Degree level
- NMC Registration
- Evidence of professional development
- Masters level qualification in a related subject (or equivalent experience)
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to motivate others and manage change
- Ability to work in a community setting with vulnerable families with language and cultural barriers
- Service development experience
Experience
Essential criteria- 5 years experience children's nurse, 2 years senior nurse role
- Experience of management of teams in the community setting
- Extensive experience in assessing care needs, planning implementation and evaluation of care plans.
- Extensive experience in teaching and assessing the competencies of other staff and carers.
- Experience of completing Continuing Care Assessments and setting up care packages for CYP with complex health needs
- Previous experience of research and audit
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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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