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Job summary

Main area
Community Children's Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
12 months (Fixed term or secondment)
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (09:00-17:00 with on-call)
Job ref
388-6456871-NMC
Employer
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Children & Family Health Devon
Town
Exeter
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/08/2024 23:59

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Children's Community Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

The Children’s Community Nursing team works together to provide a high quality responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting across Devon.

We work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to infants, children and young people and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.

This role is to provide nursing support, advice and interventions within the multi-agency ethos of Children and Family health Devon, for children and their families. You will provide case management of an identified caseload of children with complex and/or long-term conditions by utilising and promoting evidence-based care.

You will assist in promoting the health and well-being of children with complex nursing needs, to enable them to achieve the maximum benefit from their educational opportunities by supporting them to express their views and ensuring that their opinions are considered.

Our service offers community nursing support across the whole of Devon (excluding Plymouth). The successful candidate will be based in Exeter but there will be a need to travel county wide to help meet the demands of the service, supporting the wider team and patient need where required.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our nursing team on a fixed term basis or as an agreed secondment.

Main duties of the job

  • To promote and lead on providing a strength/asset based approach to the service delivery.
  • To develop effective patient centred decision-making processes.
  • To ensure a culture where children, young people and their families/carers and the public are involved in the decision-making processes of services and in the wider context of the Alliance.
  • To develop strong relationships with partner agencies to provide an effective co-ordination of care for children young people and families
  • Prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands to meet deadlines and ensure clinical effectiveness   
  • Works closely with all agencies to promote inclusion and ensure children and young people with complex health and special needs maximise their potential
  • Support training for care staff.  
  • Participate in the planning, implementing and evaluation of programmes of care for individual young people to meet all nursing needs.  
  • To be adaptable and flexible to the changing needs of the caseload   

Working for our organisation

This is your chance to gain or further develop your community experience by joining this progressive and innovative service that is children, young people, families and staff focussed

Wellbeing of staff within the team remains a priority along with the delivery of excellent and safe care to the children and families that we support.

The successful candidate can be sure that they will be well supported within a friendly and compassionate team, who value the contribution of each individual team member.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered RN/Child, RSCN, Diploma/degree in nursing (child)
  • Relevant post registration experience
Desirable criteria
  • Mentorship training

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
  • Proven experience of working with children with complex medical needs, special needs and/or life limiting conditions
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in the comunity
  • Exeperience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies
  • Experience of enteral feeding

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kate Scobie
Job title
Team Leader Community Children's Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07977020375
Additional information

For further information, contact Kate Scobie Clinical Team Manager on [email protected] or 07977020375

Or Lisa Pullen

[email protected]

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