Main area: Children's Community Nursing
Grade Band: 6
Contract: 12 months (1 Year Fixed Term)
Hours: Part time - 28.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri 08:00 - 18:00, Weekends & Bank Holidays 08:30 - 13:15)
Job ref: 150-KB1446-CC
Employer: Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Jumbo Ward, Crawley Hospital
Town: Crawley
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum/pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2025 23:59
Children's Community Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
The post is a nursing role within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) Children’s Community Nursing Service (CCNS), focused on the clinical and associated public health nursing of children, young people, and families. The Service is working towards 7-day working.
The Children & Young People’s (CYP) Community Nurse (CN) will contribute to the development of the local Children’s Community Nursing Team and countywide CCNS together with the Team Lead and senior nurses, helping to ensure that policy and practice is developed and delivered in line with Trust and national best practice standards.
The post holder will have a key role in delivering specialist community children’s nursing for the children and young people on the CCN caseload. They will provide up-to-date knowledge and skills for the nursing management and care of children in the community setting. They will liaise with clinical experts for the provision of specialist knowledge, skills, and leadership as required.
As a Registered Nurse - Child, they will promote the health and wellbeing of children and their families and ensure the provision of high-quality, safe nursing care to children and families on the caseload. They will work closely with other health professionals within the Trust and across the health economy, as well as with statutory and third sector agencies.
Main duties of the job
1. Deliver and help maintain excellent nursing care and practice standards within the CCNT, helping to review where needed.
2. Work together with the CCN Team Lead to help ensure the consistent delivery of safe quality nursing care for children on the caseload.
3. Help implement and write children’s clinical policies and standards, maintaining other standards and clinical policies in line with SCFT requirements, helping to evaluate and adjust as required, in partnership with Team Lead, Matron, Heads of CCNS, and other senior CCNs.
4. Help manage development and performance within the CCN team and ensure together with Team Lead that appraisals for junior staff are completed annually and ensure feedback on performance is given at regular intervals throughout the year.
5. Educate and support junior staff/peers offering leadership surrounding continual professional development and performance of best clinical practice.
6. Ensure health records are maintained and compliant with Trust policy and keep accurate, legible, contemporaneous records and written reports as required.
7. Assist the Team Lead, Safeguarding Team, and Head of CCN Service in coordinating child protection processes in accordance with Trust policy whilst supporting junior staff in understanding and exercising the Trust safeguarding policy and Sussex procedures.
8. Maintain and help to analyze relevant service data which will demonstrate activity of the team and assist with identifying service needs and possible developments.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
* Registered Nurse – Child or Registered Sick Children’s Nurse
* BSc in Specialist Practice in Community Health/Specialist Practitioner Children’s Nurse or recent evidence of working towards specialist qualification in community nursing
* ENB 998 / Mentorship module or equivalent
* Postgraduate Module/Diploma in relevant subject e.g., Intensive Care of Children, Safeguarding Children, Physical assessment
* Nurse Prescribing for Community Practitioners (V100)
Experience
* Significant post-registration relevant clinical experience at band 5 or above
* Experience of working autonomously managing a caseload of children in a community setting and/or on a children’s ward
* Experience of teaching / health promotion
* Experience of planning, managing and helping coordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, and volunteer agencies
* Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate to the role
* Evidence of post-registration professional development within the last three years
* Experience of working with children and families/carers at the end of life.
* Experience of clinical supervision
* Experience of clinical audit
Skills and knowledge
* Proficient clinical assessment and care planning skills
* Understanding of common care pathways and nursing care needs across tertiary, local hospital, and community settings.
* Good understanding of children’s communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; can identify their changing individual needs and preferences and promote independence.
* Communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and engage with staff, children, and families who may be experiencing difficult circumstances or distressing news
* Ability to prioritize own workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure
* Ability to help develop, set up and implement new working practices, structures to support them, and evaluate processes once implemented and initiate support.
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard
* Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries
* Interest in and working knowledge of IT and new technologies
* Able to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary interagency teams and to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Ability to organize and respond efficiently to complex information/ distressing news, understanding when they need to seek supervision or assistance
* Ability to multitask.
Other requirements
* Ability to travel as required to meet the needs of the service on a daily basis. A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
At the heart of how we operate is our Trust values:
* Working Together,
* Achieving Ambitions
We are committed to being an inclusive employer that actively promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We embrace and celebrate diversity, encouraging applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically, please ensure you check your emails, including your junk folder. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
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