Job summary
Join our dedicated team as a Paediatric Hospital at Home Nurse, where you'll play a vital role in the Community Children's Nursing Service and join the team as we expand into Camden and South Barnet. As a member of the Hospital at Home team, you'll provide expert nursing care for sick children within the familiar surroundings of their own homes. Your responsibilities include autonomous working, comprehensive assessment, precise planning, implementation, and evaluation of personalized nursing care for children under the guidance of the Band 7 Team Lead, Children's Community Matron and lead consultant.
Who are we?
We are a team of specialist nurses that provide assessment, support, and advice for unwell infants, children, and young people recovering at home.
What we do:
The hospital at home nursing team support children's recovery at home, preventing admission to hospital or allowing for early discharge from hospital. We provide specialist paediatric nursing care in the comfort of the child's home.
Who can we look after?
0-18-year-olds living within Islington, Camden and South Barnet, referred to our service by hospital clinicians for management of an acute illness. Some conditions we treat are resolving infections of IVABs, jaundice, bronchiolitis, viral induced wheeze, diarrhoea and vomiting and infant feeding support.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have a leadership role and take responsibility for case-finding, team co-ordination and organisation of referrals.
We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds including emergency nurses, ambulatory care and acute wards. It is an exciting time to join our team and be supported to enhance your scope of autonomous practice.
The service runs from 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week, throughout the year. As an integrated care organisation, there are varied opportunities for training and development plus from other specialists. The induction period provided is tailored to the post holder's needs.
If you are seeking a challenge, are passionate about patient care and interested in joining an enthusiastic, dynamic and dedicated team we would love to hear from you.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Our ICARE (Innovation, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence) Values not only help us shape what we do, but also how we do it and why. They are fundamental to the way we do business and care for our patients.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work with colleagues from Whittington Health, UCLH and the Royal Free Hospital in both paediatrics, neonates and the emergency departments, as well as community midwifery services. The role will provide a unique opportunity to be part of a service able to provide a truly integrated care pathway for patients across acute and community settings; developing and expanding the services to provide the best care possible for our patients in the best way for them.
Please refer to the Job description for detailed information.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
1. RSCN or RN (Child Branch)
2. Practice supervisor/Practice assessor
Desirable
3. Advanced Physical Assessment Course
4. Specialist Practitioner community children's nursing
Skills & Abilities
Essential
5. Experience in caring for children with long term conditions
6. Be able to priorities clinical workload
7. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
8. Nursing in a multi-racial inner city community
9. IV competentcy
Desirable
10. Service development and change
11. Experience of working within a community setting
12. Experience with CVAD
13. Experience with Phototherapy
14. Driving licence
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
15. Able to demonstrate a detailed awareness and understanding of current issues in children's community nursing
16. Application of research/evidence base to clinical practice
Personal Attributes
Essential
17. Adaptable, flexible, approachable
18. Being able to work autonomously
19. Able to work long days (8-8, hour day shifts)