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    Senior Community Children's Nurse - Exeter, United Kingdom - Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

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    Job summary

    The Children's Community Nursing pathway works across Devon to provide a high quality, responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting.

    We are looking for a Children's Nurse RSCN or RN (child) with experience, knowledge and skills in nursing children with palliative and complex health needs to join our Children's Community Nurse team. The position would support children living across Devon.

    You should have proven experience of working with children who have acute and complex medical conditions and be confident in providing training to their carers. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work well within a team environment, be able to work autonomously and ideally have community nursing experience.

    We are particularly keen to recruit someone with respiratory interest and experience of children and young people with tracheostomy and /or long term ventilation needs in addition to those with an interest or experience in palliative care.

    This fixed term position will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to add community experience to their portfolio.

    Main duties of the job

  • To provide specialist nursing support, advice and interventions within the multiagency ethos of children and family health services for children and their families.
  • To assist in promoting the health and well-being of children with complex nursing needs, to enable them to achieve the maximum benefit from their educational opportunities.
  • To provide case management of an identified caseload of children with highly complex and/or long term conditions by utilising and promoting evidence based care.
  • To provide nursing care, support, training, advice and education to children, families and carers in order to meet the children's health needs in the school and community environment.
  • To provide children and young people with the opportunity to express their views in an individually appropriate way, having to have their opinions taken into account to develop the services
  • To support symptom management at end of life within the community setting including providing on call cover for provision of care outside of normal working hours
  • About us

    The Children's Community Nursing team works closely together to provide a high quality responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting across Devon.

    We work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to infants, children and young people and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.

    This is your chance to develop within a progressive and innovative service that is children, young people, families and staff focused.

    Wellbeing of staff within the team remains a priority along with the delivery of excellent safe care to the children & families that we support. Youcan be sure that they will be well supported within a friendly and compassionate team who value the contribution of each individual team member.

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    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Please see our attached job description and person specification form for full details.

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    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • RN Child or RSCN qualification
  • Current registration with NMC
  • Desirable

  • Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or diploma (or substantial documented experience of working in the community).
  • Degree level qualification in nursing.
  • Non-medical prescriber V100 or V300
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Significant experience of working within the community / primary care setting.
  • Proven experience of working with children with complex medical needs, special needs and life limiting conditions.
  • Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
  • Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
  • Evidence of the implementation of risk and assessments.
  • Desirable

  • Experience of Children & Young People with tracheostomy and long term ventilation
  • Training qualification or experience
  • Knowledge

    Essential

  • Knowledge of NHS IT systems
  • Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
  • Good working knowledge of Children's safeguarding processes


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