Job summary
New year, new job?
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting to this exciting new role within Community Children's Nursing (CCN). Our CCN teams provide specialist paediatric nursing care to babies, children, young people (BCYP) and their families in a variety of community settings.
This new clinical Nursing leadership role will enable a specialist CCN to provide care to patients receiving oncology treatment and nursing care provided by the CCN teams across Portsmouth and Southampton. They will work closely with the Paediatric oncology primary treatment centre in Southampton Children's Hospital as well as the shared care unit in Portsmouth Hospitals to ensure seamless care between hospitals and the community for the paediatric oncology population.
If this role sounds attractive to you and you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work as a team player, as well as the initiative to work autonomously, we would love to hear from you.
Please do reach out to discuss this post further and we would be happy to support an informal visit to the team if you would like one.
Main duties of the job
Manage a caseload of babies, children and young people (BCYP) across Portsmouth and Southampton CCN teams, ensuring high quality, safe and compassionate community services.
Be a direct point of contact and resource for BCYP at diagnosis and throughout their cancer trajectory.
Act as a clinical lead, demonstrating a high level of expertise and autonomy within the CCN service, providing specialist advice, education and support to patients and professionals.
Demonstrate a high level of clinical skills and expertise within paediatric oncology, palliative and end of life care services, leading and participating in a 24 hour end of life on call service as required.
Lead on clinical education of specialist oncology nursing in community settings.
Collaborate with the CCN team, PTC and POSCU to deliver seamless care for children with an oncology diagnosis.
Benchmark and maintain a high standard quality of patient care.
Have a focus on leading improvements in the quality of care for BCYP and families living with an oncology diagnosis in the community.
Work across professional, departmental and Trust boundaries as required to develop and support patient-centred care.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, 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 centre 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 Trusts 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 description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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
Essential
1. NMC Registered Children's Nurse
2. BSc or equivalent qualification
3. Post registration, specialist training relevant to paediatric oncology ( Paediatric oncology foundation course, Paediatric oncology advanced course)
4. CCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification
5. Practice assessor/supervisor
Desirable
6. MSc qualification or equivalent qualification
7. Evidence of paediatric oncology specialist interest and relevant continued professional development
8. Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy competency passport
Experience
Essential
9. Evidence of significant post registration experience within relevant area of practice ( CCN or paediatric oncology)
10. Experienced in delivering care and clinical interventions to babies, children and young peoplewith an oncology diagnosis
11. Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
12. Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
13. Experience of developing policy or guidelines
14. Experience in provision of complex symptom management, palliative and end of life care in paediatrics
15. Evidence of implementing significant changes or service developments that promote excellent practice
16. Experience of managing conflicting and constantly changing priorities
Desirable
17. Confidence in using, interpreting, manipulating, analysing and presenting data