Following the promotion of our Roald Dahl Epilepsy Specialist Nurse, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of motivated and dynamic children's diabetes service. The successful candidate will be working in an award-winning team. The post requires continued collaboration with the acute and community paediatric leads within North Middlesex Hospital and across North Central London.
We are seeking an experienced children's nurse, with experience in acute and community, children or neonatal services practicing at band 6 level or above. The team that you will work with you is talented, motivated, and expanding with several exciting new roles concurrently advertised. We are looking for a candidate who will be visible, patient and staff focused to work within this excellent team.
This is the perfect role for an nurse who wishes to pursue a CNS role in Epilepsy. For internal applications this post could be considered as a secondment with your direct line manager support.
Main duties of the job
This role will be expected to act as a practice leader, managing own workload and work across professional, organizational, agency and system boundaries to develop services for Children and Young People (CYP) with Epilepsy. This will include life-limiting and life shortening conditions.
To participate and contribute to networks, locally, regionally and nationally. The post holder will promote and facilitate excellent standards of care and contribute to the future development of the Paediatric Epilepsy services within the trust.
The role will critically appraise evidenced based practice and apply the principles of prudent healthcare, assessing and managing risk and proactively challenge others.
The post holder will act as key liaison between children's and adult's Services, Health Care Teams, Lead Consultant, Consultant Physicians, Out-patient nursing team, Senior Sisters and Nursing teams for paediatric and adult Units, Tertiary Unit teams and within the Children's Community and District Nursing Services, and Public Health Teams, in relation to epilepsy care.
About us
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
* NMC registration as RSCN or RN Child nurse, or equivalent
* Child and adult safeguarding training
* Post registration - paediatric education and training to Postgraduate Diploma level.
* Recognized certificate in mentorship and supervision
Desirable
* Evidence of higher level of practice development within specialist area
* Relevant Masters qualification or equivalent experience
* Independent Prescriber
Skills and abilities
Essential
* Ability to embrace the following personal values and behaviors daily.
* Dignity, Respect and Fairness
* Integrity, Openness and Honesty
* Caring, Kindness and Compassion
* Ability to demonstrate a commitment to our organizational values
* Working together to be the best we can be.
* Striving to develop and deliver excellent services.
* Able to demonstrate situations where effective leadership and management skills have been used to improve care.
* Be able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when working with others.
* Ability to delegate and prioritize work.
* Ability to critically analyze research and apply it to practice setting.
* Evidence of their own interest and contribution toward developing clinical practice.
* Ability to respond to and lead change
* Leadership and change management skills.
* Effective communicator with CYP, families/carers and all members of the multidisciplinary health care team involved in tertiary, secondary, community and primary care.
* Ability to work in a calm and efficient manner in situations of extreme workload
* Self-motivator
* Positive influencing skills
* Able to maintain confidentiality
* Professional attitude to work
* Able to work independently
* Administering medication under patient group directives
Desirable
* Experience of supporting CYP with Learning Disability
Experience
Essential
* Post registration experience of working within specialty
* Demonstrable experience of complex decision making.
* Leadership and management experience.
* Significant experience where a degree of autonomous working has been required.
* Experience of multiprofessional working
Desirable
* People Management experience
* Teaching and education assessment experience
* Experience of working independently
Trust Values
Essential
* Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Team player
* Positive attitude to work
* Able to assist other units if required.
Employer details
Employer name
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Address
North Middlesex University Hospital
Sterling Way
London
N18 1QX
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