We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic Children's trained nurse or Nurse Associate with experience in nursing children to join our team.
The Children's Community Nursing Service is a small but well established service that provides care to children and young people who have an identified nursing need/long term health need, supporting and empowering families to manage their child at home and in a variety of settings across Solihull.
You will be part of a multi-professional team and will require excellent communication skills. We will offer a comprehensive induction and competency programme; prior competency evidence of IV therapy, Venepuncture/blood sampling, enteral feeding device care, tracheostomy care, and Medical Devices will be considered useful.
The team regularly operates from 09.00 - 18.30 hours Monday to Friday and Saturday and bank holidays 09.00 - 13.00hrs. This post is for 37.5 hours per week routinely worked over 5 days.
Daily access to your own vehicle for managing community visits is essential.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to manage a named caseload of children under the supervision of a senior nurse and will be expected to manage your own time and use your own initiative to provide evidenced based quality care.
You will assess and plan the care needs of children/young people and their families in the home, their school, and other community settings. Your assessment and interventions will take into consideration the immediate and long-term physical, psychological, and social impact of diagnosis and treatment and identify the impact of this on a child/young person's development.
You will have good knowledge and experience of working within Safeguarding procedures and will be expected to attend/support the team to attend Multidisciplinary team meetings and Safeguarding meetings. As a member of this team, you will be supported with regular clinical supervision, appraisal, and relevant team meetings.
A flexible working approach and an enthusiasm for long-term, complex, palliative, and end-of-life care is essential.
The role will entail teaching and sharing information with parents, carers, students, and other professionals, and experience in teaching others would be valuable.
If you have the relevant experience or are interested in widening your experience, would like to join a small, friendly, and proactive team, and are committed to improving the outcomes for children and their families then please apply.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment to offering flexible working where we can.
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity, removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions, and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture that empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected, and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* *Registered Sick Children's Nurse/Child Branch.
Experience
Essential
* *2 years post registration experience.
* *Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
* *Able to utilise IT skills to document events on a day-to-day basis, write up minutes from meetings and disseminate accordingly.
* *To supervise junior staff on a day-to-day basis, to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff.
* *Dexterity and co-ordination is required for IV, CVL, IM interventions, the administration of medications, passing of naso-gastric, gastrostomy, and tracheostomy tubes.
* *Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safeguarding and disability.
* *Knowledge of recognised health-related issues in children and young people with complex and life-limited conditions.
Additional Criteria
Essential
* *Able to listen and be a good communicator in a variety of settings/services and enthuse others -- can communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding.
* *Able to demonstrate the ability to promote the individuality and well-being of clients in a holistic way.
* *Able to plan, assess, implement care, and evaluate complex activities such as hospital discharge or packages of care.
* *Able to work on own initiative and be self-directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care.
* *Able to demonstrate innovation in current area of practice.
* *Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent.
* *Good team working skills.
* *Effective time management skills.
* *Professionally up-to-date.
* *Innovative.
* *Reliable.
* *Able to pass occupational health clearance.
* *Able to maintain professional appearance.
* *Ability to work flexibly to meet operational needs of the team and wider organisations.
* *To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non-judgmental, reliable, and honest.
* *Car driver, with independent means of transport on a daily basis.
* *Willing to undertake disclosure and Barring service at Enhanced level.
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Children's Community Nursing
Third Floor, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 4BN
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