Job summary
The Children's Community Specialist Nursing Service, based in Cambridgeshire, is looking for a Children's Complex Care Sister/Charge Nurse to join our growing team.
The Children's Complex Care team work in a collaborative, enabling and inclusive manner with all. With the aim to advocate for individuals and their families to deliver a bespoke complex high-quality service to children and young people within their community and educational settings. We will achieve this by honouring our values of honesty, empathy, ambition, and respect of children, young people, and their families with complex physical health needs.
We also support families with their care co-ordination and training by offering expertise and advice appropriate to their needs.
Please note, for part time posts, salary will be pro-rata.
Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.
Main duties of the job
Complex nursing care co-ordination for children and young people with complex physical and health needs.
Joint working across the Children's Specialist Community Nursing Service to provide training and complex case management within the counties Special Needs School and provide skilled nursing care to children and young people in their own homes.
Acting as an autonomous practitioner, which includes being Nurse in charge - allocating and delegating daily to registrants and non-registrants.
Responsible for daily management of the team and escalating where necessary.
Provide clinical leadership and direction for the Complex care team.
Undertake nursing assessments of children and young people to inform the Children's Continuing Care framework.
To provide high quality, evidence-based community nursing care within a defined locality, promoting a high standard of nursing care for children and their families.
Support the Band 4 Health Care Support workers and external stakeholders in delivering evidenced based care or within the child's familiar environment (e.g. their home, school or community).
Work within the established Children's Continuing Care Team providing evidence based short break care for children who meet NHS continuing care criteria within the home.
Supporting children and young people who have palliative and end of life requirements, alongside providing support for their families.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Maintain the safety of children and young people by ensuring a robust complex needs health care plan are in place.
Devising care packages that have been commissioned by the Integrated Care System (ICS).
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care and support requirements for children with complex health needs.
To engage with children and their parents/carers along with other agencies who are involved in their care to promote a person-centred outcomes approach to supporting their needs.
To provide support to training and competency assessments and ongoing clinical supervision for Health Care Support workers/Administrative Clinical Assistants within the CCNT.
To provide theoretical training and competency-based assessments in relation to nursing interventions for staff working in partner agencies including schools (mainstream and special needs), colleges and early years settings.
Ongoing reviewing, critiquing and improvement of the training that the service provides both internally and externally.
Undertake Nurse in Charge responsibilities to triage day-to day communications and referrals alongside other Shift Leads within the service (Acute CCN and Specialist Nursing for Schools Service).
To support the Lead Nurse in developing service improvements to ensure the health needs of the children and young people who use the service are met.
Actively engaging in the development of processes and procedures within the complex care team.
If you have a non-medical prescribing qualification, you will be expected to practice as a prescriber as part of this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Child, RSCN, LD)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people with complex health needs.
- Experience of working with families experiencing complex and emotive situations.
- Can demonstrate how s/he has promoted 'best practice'.
Desirable
- Experience of working with patients who require tracheostomy/long term ventilation.
- Experience of working within palliative and end of life care
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communicator with attributes of active listening, compassionate and clear verbal and written communication.
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues.
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.
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 .
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Address
Peacock Centre (Cambs) / Oak Tree Centre (Hunts)
Cambridgeshire/Huntingdon
CB1 3DF