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.
Key responsibilities
- 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.
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.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison Wardley Job title: Children’s Community Nursing Team Manager, Bedford Email address: alison.wardley@nhs.net Telephone number: 07817166686
If Alison is unavailable to discuss this opportunity with you, please do not hesitate to contact:
Rinal Patel, Clinical Lead, Children’s Rapid Response and Children’s Community Nursing.
Email: Rinal.patel3@nhs.net
Telephone: 07973949038
or
Gary Meager, Clinical Quality Lead Nurse
Email: gary.meager@nhs.net
Telephone: 07816317875
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