Do you want to make a tangible difference to people's lives, with the best of London on your doorstep?
Site: Chalkhill Community Centre, Town: Wembley Park
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 nurse to join the Brent Children’s Community Nursing Team. We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic full-time Nurse.
The post holder will work as part of the Brent Children’s Community Nursing Team and will be required to work closely within a multi-disciplinary setting. Intravenous competency with central lines would be an advantage.
This post offers a great opportunity for a Paediatric Nurse to further develop nursing skills within the community setting.
The organisation is supportive of training needs and there is an excellent training and education programme.
You will also receive regular safeguarding supervision, clinical supervision and will have support from the Team Lead.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the Children’s Community Nursing Team, providing nursing care primarily within a child’s home, school and nursery, ensuring the delivery of evidenced based care to children and their families or carers.
The post holder will be responsible for:
1. Participating in the assessment, planning and provision of skilled nursing care in negotiation with the child and family.
2. Providing skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent such as tracheostomy care and central venous access.
3. Providing skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with a variety of nursing needs, such as enteral feeding, and intra-venous antibiotic administration.
4. Working in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care to families.
5. Providing information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
* Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply.
* Flexible working options.
* Training, support and development in your career.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* Evidence of post registration study / learning over the past two years.
* Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines.
* Teaching Qualification.
Experience
* Recent experience of at least 1 year of working as a registered children’s nurse in a community nursing role.
* Recent experience within an acute/community setting.
* Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams.
* Experience of managing staff within a team.
* Managing a safeguarding caseload.
Skills & Knowledge
* Demonstrate knowledge of research - based practice.
* Knowledge of assessment of health needs of the local population.
* Aware of health needs of children and young people.
Key Attributes
* Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
* Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
* Race Equality Network
* Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
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.
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