About this role
Job summary
We are offering anexciting opportunity for an experienced, innovative Paediatric Nurse to join the Children's Community Nursing Service in Newham as the Wellchild Childrens Complex Needs Nurse.This places you at the heart of compassionate, community-based care, supporting children with life-limiting conditions and their families at the most critical moments of their journey.
The Complex Care Nurse Specialist will be responsible for leading the pathway for children with complex care needs. You will work alongside the Core Nursing Pathway Lead and Palliative and End of Life Pathway Lead and sits withina widermulti-disciplinary serviceincluding Nursing(Specialist School Nursing,Asthma, Epilepsy, Continuing care)andCommunity paediatricdietitians.The Pathway Lead will also be expected to have an MDT approach to patient care with the psychology and play therapy services .
You will be responsible for the over site of children with complex health needs in the community setting, this may include holding a case load of your own as well as supporting and supervising the band 6 children's community nursing to deliver nursing care to children and their families.
For further information please contact: [email protected]
Proposed interview date is the 3rd of June.
Main duties of the job
To provide expert nursing advice and support to children with long term complex health needs and their families across the borough of Newham.
To liaise with community and hospital services partner organisations and local authority services to provide a comprehensive high quality seamless discharge from hospital to home.
To lead the complex childrens nursing pathway in Newham, to ensure delivery of high quality, responsive nursing care to children and their families and to be the named lead healthcare professional for this pathway.
This role works alongside the nursing leads for the palliative and end of life pathway and core nursing service pathway, together delivering co-ordinated care for the children and young people seen by the community nursing services. The pathway leads will work together to ensure children receive seamless, expert and timely care to meet their health and holistic needs.
To participate in WellChild Charity activities, including case presentations, publications, fundraising and annual meetings
This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder is required to be flexible in developing their role in agreement with their designated manager. In addition they may be required by their manager to carry out any other duty commensurate with their banding and expertise.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.Please consult the attached job description and person specification associated with the vacancy profile of this advertisement.
Person Specification
Education, Qualification and Training Essential
RSCN/ RN Child Branch Evidence of continued professional development Degree level qualification
Desirable
Community nursing qualification Qualification in palliative and end of life care / Complex Care
Experience Essential
Significant experience at Band 6 working with palliative children & young people. Significant experience of working with children complex health care needs Experience of supporting children and families through the child protection process Experience of leading interagency working Experience of working in the community setting
Desirable
Experience of working as a band 7 Experience of pathway / service leadership
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Excellent knowledge and skills in paediatric nursing, including enteral, respiratory, oncology, invasive and non invasive ventilation, tracheostomy and Central Venous Access Devices (CVADs) Knowledge and understanding of the child health needs of a racially and culturally diverse population Ability to work flexibly, prioritise and respond to changing demands in workload. Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to facilitate these skills in others Ability to support the implementation of successful change management Ability to deal with complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible. Excellent clinical knowledge of palliative and end of life care for children and young people, including dying at home
Other Essential
Excellent teaching skills with an ability to adapt these for use with health care support workers, parents, children and young people. Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgements and decisions regarding patient care and to be responsible and accountable for choices made. Excellent verbal / written communication and interpersonal skills
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 London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Appleby Health Centre
Appleby Health Centre, 63 Appleby Health, E16 1LQ, UK
London
E16 1LQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)