Community Registered Children's Nurse - Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Description

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

Providing mainly 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.

To provide a community service to the local area, supporting the Paediatric Department. Liaising with the MDT and tertiary centres for continuing care

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2014.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Provide a community service to children requiring supporting nursing care in the community.

Liaising with the wider multi disciplinary team and external agencies to support keeping patients at school and within the community.

Carry out regular oncology and cardiac community visits.

Administer chemotherapy in the community.

Carry out wound care assessments and dressings.

Hold a caseload of patients with long and short term health conditions.

Provide 24/7 palliative care provision to families wishing to be at home at end of life.

Working closely with local hospices and services to provide excellent care for the families.

Training opportunities available.

Work closely with the inpatient and ambulatory settings along with specialist nurses and the medical team.
Current paediatric experience.
Aware of key principles of paediatric care and implications for practice
Monitors and contributes to protecting children and young people at risk.
Safeguarding experience
Ability to travel to community patient visits and carry equipment
Able to work flexible shifts including weekends and bank holidays and on call as required

Registered Sick Children's Nurse (NMC Sub -Part 1 (Children) /RN Child Mentorship/teaching course
~Community experience Working towards community nursing degree

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Wexham Park Hospital