Job Summary
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-centred 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, Tasks & Skills Required
* 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.
* Manage a caseload. Provide specialised, 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 individualised programmes of care.
* Support the management of the integrated acute and community care pathways for children with short-term conditions.
* Provide supervision and monitoring of junior staff with the support of the team leader.
* 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.
* Teach families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enables 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 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 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 Description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification document.
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
* BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMC.
* CCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification or willingness to complete within 2 years of being appointed.
* Practice assessor/supervisor.
Experience
Essential
* Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans.
* Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
* Experience of MDT working.
* Experience of teaching, training, and supervision/assessing junior staff and students.
* Evidence of recent CPD or desire to progress.
Additional Criteria
Essential
* Clinically competent at Band 6 level.
* Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding.
* Ability to work autonomously; prioritise workload, instruct and direct others, work is managed rather than supervised; works within clear code of practice.
* Problem-solving skills.
* Advocacy skills.
* Teaching, supervision, and assessing skills.
* Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management.
* Assess patient/client plans, develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing/evaluating patients' conditions.
* Ability to work as part of a team and support the development of others.
* There is a frequent requirement for physical effort manoeuvring patients and moving equipment.
* Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues.
* Ability to adapt to change within work situations.
* There is a frequent requirement to manage unpleasant working conditions i.e. body fluids.
* Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion.
* Understanding of a range of clinical approaches.
* Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to the clinical area.
* Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues.
* Knowledge of health promotion.
* UK Driving Licence and use of a car to carry out community visits.
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.
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