Main area Matron – Children and Young Person’s Community Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-2782
Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site 1st Floor, Northern Health Centre Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 06/01/2025 23:59
Matron – Children and Young Person’s Community Nursing
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Matron to lead Whittington Health’s Community Children’s Nursing Team. The Community Matron will provide clinical leadership and staff management, while developing innovative community children’s nursing services within North Central London. You will be responsible for leading various teams including the CCN service, Life Force palliative care team, Hospital at Home across Islington and Camden, Paediatric Nurses in Primary care and the NCL bladder and bowel team.
The Community Matron role is a pivotal member of the senior nurse leadership team, and you will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication skills, always acting as a role model, whilst providing expert clinical practice. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic candidate who works well both independently and as part of a team.
Main duties of the job
* Senior Nurse leading teams of Children and Young Person’s Community Nursing. The post holder has overall responsibility for the management of the generalist Community Children’s Nursing Team (CCNT) which includes generalist services for children, Children’s Nurses in Primary Care and NCL bladder and bowel team and the Hospital at Home service.
* The post holder will be the lead nurse in children/young people’s palliative care issues within Islington, Camden and Haringey and specifically lead Life Force Team, the Paediatric Palliative Care.
* The services are provided to children and young people within NCL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Participate in the planning and delivery of community children and young person’s nursing.
* Have direct line management responsibility for the nursing.
* Provide senior nursing/professional leadership to the nursing team.
* Work together with clinical and non-clinical staff to design and deliver innovative solutions, to ensure the delivery of high quality care.
* Ensure that appropriate standards of nursing care are delivered and identify and act on any issues where they could be improved.
* Ensure children and families are fully supported and identify and act on any issues where this could be improved.
* Monitor the overall professional performance of the nursing staff within the team.
* Provide an accessible and authoritative presence that staff and families can turn to for assistance, advice and support.
* To work in conjunction with the senior nursing team to develop and implement nursing practices, promoting research and evidence-based care.
* To be the local champion for children/young people’s palliative care, liaising and working in collaboration with local commissioners, consultants and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that pertinent issues are kept on the ICO agenda.
* To provide knowledge, support, effective communication and liaison with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure provision of optimum care to child and young person and families at end of life.
* To coordinate the Life Force team providing training, support and supervision.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RSCN or RN (Child Branch).
* Community Qualification ideally CCN Specialist Practitioner.
* Relevant first level degree or equivalent.
* Evidence of work-based learning and ability to meet competencies.
* Master’s degree in appropriate subject or working towards.
* Independent Prescribing or commitment to work towards.
* Palliative Care Course.
* ENB 240.
Experience
* Extensive experience of working within a community setting at Band 7 or above.
* Experience of working with children with life threatening or life limiting conditions.
* Evidence of team and staff management.
* Nursing in a multi-racial inner city community.
* Being able to work in isolation and without supervision.
* Evidence of management of resources.
* Experience of working closely with commissioners.
* Experience of working in advanced practice e.g. physical assessment.
Skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to reflect on clinical practice.
* Importance and application of a multi-agency assessment framework.
* Ability to prioritise clinical workload.
* Ability to act as an advocate for children with life threatening or life limiting conditions and their families.
Knowledge
* Detailed awareness and understanding of current issues in children's community nursing – including National directives and policies.
* Understanding of current professional issues in nursing and NHS.
* Understanding of Service specification development and oversight of these.
* Application of research/evidence base to clinical practice.
Abilities
* To be a car driver.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Joanne Flanagan Job title Associate Director of Nursing Email address joanneflanagan@nhs.net Telephone number 02072885528
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