Children’s Community Nurse

Seeking a highly motivated children’s nurse to join our small friendly CCN team, someone who is passionate about providing the best care to children, young people and their families within the community setting.

Providing acute nursing care to children within their homes and other community settings as well as within the acute children’s ward, Medical day unit and Paediatric assessment unit.

Providing training and support to families, schools and carers to enable children and young people to live their lives away from the hospital setting.

To develop yourself and the service with training offered and encouraged.

Mentor student nurses.

Main duties of the job

To provide an acute paediatric community nursing service to the local area, supporting and working closely with Paediatric Department and specialist nurses. Liaising with the MDT, tertiary centres and local services and agencies to provide wrap around care.

Managing a caseload of patients allowing you to build relationships with families to meet the needs of the child. As a team we manage the care of a variety of patients with caseloads in the following areas; oncology, haematology, cardiac, enteral, endocrine, rheumatology, eczema, home oxygen, acute medical needs such as growth/weights, home IV’s and wound management along with providing care to our patients that are palliative on a 24/7 basis when they reach end of life.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please review job description and person specification attached to the vacancy for further information on this role.

Person specification

Competencies

Essential criteria

• Application of clinical judgement
• Demonstrates good communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to use initiative

Experience

Essential criteria

• Current paediatric experience.
• Aware of key principles of paediatric care and implications for practice
• Aware of research and evidence and implications for practice

Desirable criteria

• Monitors and contributes to protecting children and young people at risk.
• Safeguarding experience
• Participation in audit activity

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to community patient visits and carry equipment
• Able to work flexible hours including weekends, bank holidays and on call as required by the service

Desirable criteria

• Community experience
• Acute experience
• Minimum of 3 years nursing experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Sick Children’s Nurse (NMC Sub –Part 1 (Children) /RN Child
• Mentorship or equivalent

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Apply online now