Senior Integrated Community Children's Nurse
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The iCCN team provides specialist nursing care, support, and coordination of care to children and young people with complex health care needs and disabilities. These may include those with life-limiting/life-threatening conditions, chronic illnesses, palliative care needs, end-of-life care needs, and short-term acute care needs including urgent care pathways.
Due to exciting developmental opportunities, we are seeking highly skilled, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Senior Community Children's Nurses for our integrated Community Children's Nursing (iCCN) team.
Our established, passionate, and dedicated iCCN team works collaboratively with children, young people, families, and the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is provided as close to home as possible. We provide high-quality and holistic, family-centered care to children and young people (CYP) with a range of nursing needs.
As a Senior CCN, you will have the opportunity to shape and lead our responsive service as it continually adapts to the ever-changing needs of the families. You will play a key role in leading care plans, training, and multi-disciplinary liaison for CYP with a range of needs within their home, school, and wider community.
Main Duties of the Job
1. The iCCN service aims to provide a high-quality in-reach and outreach nursing service which enables early, safe planned discharge from hospital and prevents unnecessary admissions.
2. Manage a caseload. Provide specialized, high-quality skilled nursing care, considering the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs of the child with nursing care needs. This will include those with complex health care needs, palliative care needs, life-limiting illnesses, and children dependent on technology (and those requiring short-term support). This requires developing, implementing, and evaluating individualized programmes of care.
3. Support the management of the integrated acute and community care pathways for children with short-term conditions.
4. Provide supervision and monitoring of junior staff with the support of the team leader.
5. Work with families to provide emotional support and specialist clinical care, sensitive to the changing and ongoing needs of the child, siblings, parents, and other carers.
6. Teach families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enable them to feel confident and competent in caring for the child.
About Us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organization, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the center of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust's community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job Responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMCCCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification or willingness to complete Practice assessor/supervisor.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year. Please note for part-time hours the salary will be pro rata.
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