About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunities has arisen to work with children with complex medical needs and their families as Nurse Specialist. This post is in collaboration with Roald Dahl Marvellous Children's Charity and East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
You will link Children and families across a multidisciplinary pathway ensuring a high standard of care and compassion is provided.
You will assist children with complex medical needs to access all aspects of care and support, whilst promoting the ethos of both the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children's Charity and ESNEFT.
This post is Maternity Cover until 31st May 2027
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence based programmes of care for Children and Young People who have a range of complex health needs due to chronic disease, trauma, or who have life limiting or life threatening conditions.
Provide clear and effective leadership and co-ordination of the patient pathway for children with medical complexity (CMC).
Work with minimal supervision to develop and deliver the specialist service based on principles that are evidence based and which enhance the quality of patient care.
Ensure a high-quality service meeting the individual needs of the child and their family.
Lead the co-ordination of holistic and seamless clinical care for CMC, who are often known to several specialty teams.
Promote efficient patient pathways
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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Job description Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Proven post registration experience in children's nursing Proven clinical, organisational and managerial skills Experience working within a multidisciplinary team Patient co-ordination experience
Desirable
Experience in adult and paediatric care Community experience Palliative Care
Qualifications Essential
NMC Child Registered Nurse (RN Child / RSCN) First Degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification / experience Teaching / Mentorship Qualification or willingness to undertake. Evidence of continued professional development and training.
Desirable
LEO or other relevant management course TYA module
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.
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 Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address Ipswich
Heath Road
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)