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    Senior Children's Community Nurse - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

    Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
    Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    Job summary

    Are you an experienced and enthusiastic registered children's nurse looking for a new challenge? Look no further Our Children's Community Nursing Team has a vacancy due to an internal promotion, and we want you to join us.

    Our growing Children's Community Nursing Service comprises four nursing teams, two Clinical Nurse Specialists, and a Practice Development Nurse. As a Children's Community Nurse (CCN), you will be crucial in delivering high-quality nursing care to children in their home environments. You will conduct assessments, develop care plans, implement nursing interventions, and ensure proper documentation and follow-up.

    Join our team and make a difference in the lives of children and their families.

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    Main duties of the job

    To work as an autonomous practitioner responsible for helping lead a team of Nurses to provide high-quality, specialist nursing care to children in their own homes.

    To provide continuing responsibility for assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating nursing care for patients.

    Work with other local health care professionals/providers to maintain high-quality care and promote family-centred practice.

    To continue to develop and maintain close links between Community and Hospital based services.

    To be responsible for supporting junior members and students by developing their skills and providing mentorship through their practice placements.

    About us

    Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

  • Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
  • Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
  • Improving the experience of staff with disability
  • Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
  • Making equalities mainstream
    • Job description

    Job responsibilities

    To initiate appropriate work, accepting referrals and be able to work autonomously with the child and family in the community setting.

    To regularly attend and liaise with acute hospital colleagues to enable timely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow-up in the community setting, to prevent hospital attendance and re-attendance.

    To provide a holistic, autonomous and clinical nursing service using evidence based practice. To carry out initial assessments/home visits and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for all patients for whom he/she has continuing responsibility. To provide advice contributing to the well-being of the patient and participate in health promotion. (eg burns advice)

    To ensure medical needs and instructions are carried out in accordance with nursing and midwifery council guidelines and ensure accurate record keeping (RIO system used for client records). To create reports for specific formal meetings such as child protection case conferences. A regular requirement to use score computer software in order to create oxygen saturation reports.

    To carry out specialist procedures in the community settings eg administration of intravenous antibiotics and chemotherapy, care of central venous access devices, changing of tracheostomy and naso-gastric tubes

    To assemble and demonstrate the use of specialised equipment in the home eg suction machines, saturation monitors. To be familiar with safe manual handling practices and implement these within the home setting

    To use clinical judgement and expertise in assessing and implementing change during clinical visits eg assessment of respiratory condition and management of any changes

    To use clinical knowledge and expertise in deciding appropriate administration of drugs, route to be administered and dose of the drug, within a set of defined parameters prescribed by medical colleagues in the end of life care setting.

    To use clinical knowledge

    To teach, support and guide patients and those with parental responsibility in relative nursing procedures and to help them carry out effective nursing care.

    To be familiar with practices regarding the management of hazardous/biological substances and follow trust policies regarding their disposal.

    To be chemotherapy competent, or working towards competence and safely deliver care in the community for children and young people with cancer with the guidance of the paediatric oncology nurse lead.

    To provide an out of hours on call service for children and families at end of life.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications and Training

    Essential

  • RSCN/RN Child diploma level or equivalent
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Significant experience within the field of Children's nursing

    • Desirable

  • Community Specialist Practitioner
  • Units of study and practice within a Community Children's Nursing Team or working towards a degree with relevant community related modules.

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Broad experience of nursing sick children in the hospital/community setting
  • Demonstrate a sound knowledge of paediatrics in the community
  • Demonstrate a good knowledge of recent developments in paediatric care
  • Good understanding of Safeguarding issues and policy framework
  • Understanding of audit process and research methodologies

    • Desirable

  • Experience in Teaching
  • Previous experience of research/audit/benchmarking
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