Community Children's Nurse
Job overview
The Children’s Community Nursing team works together to provide a high quality responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting across Devon.
We work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to infants, children and young people and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.
This role is to provide nursing support, advice and interventions within the multi-agency ethos of Children and Family Health Devon, for children and their families. You will provide case management of an identified caseload of children with complex and/or long-term conditions by utilising and promoting evidence-based care.
You will assist in promoting the health and well-being of children with complex nursing needs, to enable them to achieve the maximum benefit from their educational opportunities by supporting them to express their views and ensuring that their opinions are considered.
Our service offers community nursing support across the whole of Devon (excluding Plymouth). The successful candidate will be based in Exeter but there will be a need to travel county wide to help meet the demands of the service, supporting the wider team and patient need where required.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our nursing team and gain community experience.
Main duties of the job- To promote and lead on providing a strength/asset based approach to the service delivery.
- To develop effective patient centred decision-making processes.
- To ensure a culture where children, young people and their families/carers and the public are involved in the decision-making processes of services and in the wider context of the Alliance.
- To develop strong relationships with partner agencies to provide an effective co-ordination of care for children young people and families
- Prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands to meet deadlines and ensure clinical effectiveness
- Works closely with all agencies to promote inclusion and ensure children and young people with complex health and special needs maximise their potential.
- Support training for care staff.
- Participate in the planning, implementing and evaluation of programmes of care for individual young people to meet all nursing needs.
- To be adaptable and flexible to the changing needs of the caseload
Working for our organisation
This is your chance to gain or further develop your community experience by joining this progressive and innovative service that is children, young people, families and staff focussed
Wellbeing of staff within the team remains a priority along with the delivery of excellent and safe care to the children and families that we support.
The successful candidate can be sure that they will be well supported within a friendly and compassionate team, who value the contribution of each individual team member.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered RN/Child, RSCN, Diploma/degree in nursing (child)
- Relevant post registration experience
- Mentorship training
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Proven experience of working with children with complex medical needs, special needs and/or life limiting conditions
- Experience of working in the comunity
- Exeperience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies
- Experience of enteral feeding
You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.
If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION- We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly.
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