About this role
Job summary
Be the nurse who makes home possible.
Every day, our Children's Community Nursing Team supports children with complex and additional health needs live extraordinary lives at home, school and in their local communities.
We're looking for a compassionate and motivated Band 6 nurse who enjoys working autonomously, values teamwork and is passionate about making a real difference to join our growing team.
What makes us different?
Opportunities to develop specialist skills.
A varied and rewarding caseload.
A supportive and approachable leadership team.
Children's Community nursing isn't always easy, so you'll be the kind of Nurse who:
Enjoys solving problems
Co-ordinating needs for the best outcomes
Wants opportunities to grow their leadership skills and clinical expertise
Wants to be part of a team that genuinely values kindness, learning and laughter.
So, if you're looking for a role where you'll have autonomy, offer continuity of care with families and see the impact of your work every day, there's nowhere quite like it!
Whether you're an experienced community children's nurse or an exceptional nurse with transferable skills and a passion for nursing children, we'd love to talk to you. If you have experience and share our values, we'd be happy to have an informal conversation about the role.
Main duties of the job
Co-ordinates day-to-day provision of the CCN's, ensuring patient's needs are met, new referrals triaged in a timely manner and workload allocated.
Undertake clinical assessments, implement, deliver, and evaluate nursing care for children and young people within a defined caseload in a variety of community settings.
Deliver skilled clinical nursing care.
Using a case-co-ordination approach support families to understand and manage their child's condition at home and in collaboration with multi-agency providers to ensure the child's aspirations and health needs are central to decision making and maximise their opportunities to develop.
To provide patient/parent/carer training and assessment of competence.
Assist in the discharge planning process from hospital to home to identify clinical care and support that can be safely delivered in the community.
Act as a signpost for families to access support from a range of statutory and voluntary organisations.
If you have a non-medical prescribing qualification, you will be expected to practice as a prescriber as part of this role
Ensure that clinical guidelines and electronic patient record systems are evidence based and maintain clinical effectiveness.
Lead on a designated area of clinical practice (e.g. enteral feeding), promoting evidence-based practice and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality care across the Children's Community Nursing Team.
About us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Please be aware that East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust will never ask applicants to pay fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including job applications, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. All recruitment communications and job applications should only be made through our official careers website and published contact details.
If you receive a suspicious job offer or recruitment-related communication, do not make any payments, share personal information, or provide identity documents. We encourage you to report the matter to your local police or relevant law enforcement agency. Any concerns relating to potential recruitment fraud should also be reported to our Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
- 1. Provides clinical advice for children, young people, their families and professionals working with them to understand and manage their health needs.
- 2. Agree and write care plans/reports to support families/ staff understand and care for the childs condition and health needs using a partnership approach.
- 3. Work in partnership with a range of health, education and care teams sharing information and reviewing the care plan in response to the childs aspirations and needs.
- 4. Develop communication pathways with hospital colleagues to implement joint clinical care pathways.
- 5. Communicates effectively and compassionately with people who may be distressed or angry, e.g., where there is a child with a life limiting illness
- 6. Input clinical data to electronic patient records to enable data gathering to evidence service activities in addition to statutory clinical record keeping.
Financial Responsibility
- 1. Use resources responsibly and ensure timely orders for clinical equipment are made to maintain stock control
- 2. Ensure clinical equipment is used and maintained as intended and that patient safety is assured at all times.
- 3. Maximise appointment availability to ensure patients are seen in the most appropriate setting for their clinical needs.
People Management
- 1. Be responsible for the day to day supervision, organisation and leadership of the team and prioritisation of workload .
- 2. Provide Line management and clinical supervision to designated staff members, supporting their professional development, performance management and wellbeing to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and high- quality care.
- 3. Facilitate learning opportunities, support and assessment to achieve personal and professional objectives for self and wider team members within your scope of practice.
- 4. Contribute to the support and supervision of student nurses acting as a student Practice Assessor or Practice supervisor where appropriate.
- 5. Maintain own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process
Clinical and Practice Governance
- 1. Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
- 2. Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
- 3. Adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes
- 4. It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with your professional body, and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
- 5. Participate in clinical and practice audits as required to evidence quality provision.
- 6. Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by the organisation.
See job description attached for full list of responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Child, Learning Disability or Adult).
- Evidence of ongoing professional development relevant to children's healthcare.
- Practice Assessor qualification and/or evidence of delivering this role in practice.
- Advanced physical clinical assessment qualification e.g. CAKES or equivalent course
- Safeguarding Children Level 3 knowledge and understanding
Desirable
- Specialist Community Practioner Children's Nursing qualification.
- V300- Independent/Supplementary Prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of Children's Community Nursing
- Experience of caring for children and young people with acute, long term, palliative and/or complex health needs.
- Experience of undertaking holistic nursing assessments, developing individualised care plans and onward referrals to multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of working under pressure to prioritise the needs of a clinical area
- Experience of allocating workload and supporting staff to maintain patient safety
- Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
- Experience of supporting and teaching children, families, carers or other professionals in clinical care delivery.
- Experience of prioritising and managing a workload independently.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting children and their families who have long term conditions For example: Respiratory Gastroenterology Renal Cardiac
- Experience in complex case co-ordination / management
Skills, abilities and knowledge
Essential
- Clinical competence in delivering a range of clinical nursing care for example:- -Assessment of the sick child and safe escalation planning -Administration of Intravenous medicines via a range of devices -Care of enteral feeding tubes - Injections (IM and Sub cut) -Wound care
- Evidence of teaching others and assessing clinical competence of parents, non -registered staff, carers and peers.
- Experience of effectively line managing and developing junior staff through objective setting, supervision and performance review.
Desirable
- Lead professional/keyworker for a child/young person with complex needs discharged from hospital
- Contribution to the development of local guidelines and procedures for a team
- Clinical competence in oVenepuncture and phlebotomy oTracheostomy care oStoma care for bowel and bladders
- Use of electronic patient record system
- Writing healthcare reports for Statutory EHCP and Safeguarding processes.
Communication
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively with children and young people of varying ages, abilities and communication needs. oAbility to adapt communication style to suit a range of audiences including families, education staff, social care professionals and healthcare colleagues.
- Ability to communicate sensitive or complex information in a clear, compassionate and professional manner.
- Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills, including accurate clinical documentation and report writing.
- Ability to contribute confidently to multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings, advocating for the health needs of children and families where required.
- Able to manage difficult conversations, concerns and complaints professionally and constructively.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering formal training or teaching to healthcare professionals, education staff and/or care providers
- Experience presenting information / evidence at meetings, audits, service development groups or clinical forums.
- Experience of producing reports for safeguarding, continuing care, EHCP or multi-agency purposes
- oExperience mentoring/coaching junior staff
Personal attributes and behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Aware of the range of emotions in self and others oManages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down. oHas a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
Personal and people development
Essential
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Demonstrates professional curiosity to promote self learning and development
Desirable
- Experience of line management of staff
- Experience of supporting the complaints process
- Experience of reviewing clinical incidents to identify cause and prevent recurrence.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)
Address
Woburn Court
2 Railton Road, Kempston
Bedford
MK42 7PN
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.eastofenglandcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)