Children's Community Nurse Practitioner - Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom - Sussexcommunity

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Clinical Lead - Children's Community Nurse

Are you an inspiring and patient focused Clinical Lead in Childrens Services, with a passion for supporting your colleagues to deliver excellent care at the heart of the community? If this sounds like you, we would like to invite you to apply for our new Clinical Lead role within our Childrens and Young Peoples Community Nursing Team based in Brighton and Hove.

You will be key in clinically leading a multidisciplinary Childrens and Young Peoples Community Nursing Team that engages across multiple health care partners.

You will contribute to the clinical development of the Team, whilst prioritising specialist practice effectively to support the demands of the Service, focusing on the health and wellbeing of children on the caseload.

You will have had previous clinical expertise within Children Services, alongside proven and compassionate leadership skills, and be able to promote and work within a culture of innovation and quality improvement that supports Children, Young People and their families to remain at home.

We are delighted to offer this newly created post to support the clinical delivery of the Childrens and Young Person Community Nursing Team in Brighton and Hove.

As a Registered Nurse- child , you will work alongside clinical and operational colleagues to provide clinical guidance and support the team which focuses on the public health nursing of children and young people and families across Brighton and Hove.

This role will sit within the Leadership team for the Brighton and Hove Childrens and Young Peoples Community Nursing Team, which is one of the teams that comprises the Sussex Wide Childrens and Young Peoples Community Nursing Service.

The role is to ensure the smooth clinical delivery of the service, working across professional and clinical disciplines, aligning clinical standards with operational performance.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. 3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
Excellent training and development opportunities
Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

As the Clinical Lead in Childrens Community Nursing is a clinical leadership role within Sussex Community Trust (SCFT) Children and Young Peoples Community Nursing Service (CYPCNS) you will have both advanced and specialist expertise in clinical, childrens nursing care, research, audit, practice development and educational support.

You will contribute to the development of the countywide Children and Young Peoples Community Nursing Service plan and together with other senior nurses, will ensure policy and practice is developed and delivered in line with Trust and national best practice standards, and will undertake priority clinical projects to improve service provision both locally and Trust wide.

As a Clinical Lead you will promote the health and wellbeing of children/young people and their families to ensure the provision of high quality, safe, clinical nursing care to children and families on the CCN caseload in collaboration with the Team Lead.

You will hold your own independent clinical caseload and be proficient in clinical nursing assessments and interventions for children/young people in the community.

This is a dynamic role able to flex to meet the needs of children and families on the caseload.

You will work closely with other health professionals within the Trust and across the health economy, as well as across statutory and third sector agencies.

This role offers a holistic, streamlined service that is easy for patients and families to access and can prevent or shorten hospital admission.

You will protect, safeguard and promote the well-being of children in accordance with The Children Act (1989 & 2004) and Working Together to Safeguard Children (HM Gov.

You will provide education, training and competency assessment of clinical nursing skills for colleagues, students, parents, carers as well as children and young people on the caseload.

The Clinical Lead within Childrens Community Nursing is, or will undertake training to become, a Non-Medical/Independent Nurse Prescriber (V300) who can offer clinical reviews, assessments and prescribe appropriately for children in the community.

As the Clinical Lead within Childrens Community Nursing you will:

Provide, receive and understand complex, or sensitive information relating to children and young people with a range of health needs.

This will include children with highly complex long term conditions and those children with life threatening and life limiting conditions.

The Nurse will be competent in providing support on particular clinical issues related to the child and family and their clinical conditions i.e.

when undertaking assessments.

Communicate information effectively with members of the multi-professional team both within the organisation and with external stakeholders and partners, to ensure specialist care is delivered to children both effectively and efficiently and ensuring that continuity is maintained.

Work with children and families to help maintain their own health and well-being in the community by teaching them and junior staff/carers about their condition and its management, including how to carry out health care procedures at home, utilising a variety of strategies to assist the family in understanding their childs health needs and how these can be met including competency assessment.

Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to children/young people and their families and other staff overcoming any barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events using alternative and augmentative methods of communication.

Communicate proactively with staff on the clinical condition and treatment/discharge plans of children and ensures accurate records are maintained by staff.

Lead and support team in co-ordinating the discharge process and ensures high standards of written and verbal advice are available to the children and their families / carers.

Report and escalate as necessary any safeguarding or patient safety concerns for the children on the caseload according to trust and local policy.

Work in partnership with PALS and senior management to provide resources within the CCNT, for the management and local resolution of patient related complaints.

Work together with senior manager and HR department to support and participate in the recruitment and retention of staff.

Act as an ambassador / role model for Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and the Nursing Profession. May be asked to give presentations to university students and other interested bodies about the work of the CCNS.

Support the Team Lead with the recruitment of staff into the team and contribute to workforce planning with the Matrons and General Manager.

Support the team lead with ensuring all Health and Safety requirements are met, including identification and management of risk and all accidents and incidents are reported via the correct channels and investigated with implementation of relevant recommendations.

Lead the Team to take part in the End of Life Care on-call rota as the service evolves, including supporting bespoke, 24hr direct nursing support working in collaboration with local hospice and charity organisations as appropriate.

Support the team lead to ensure a safe and consistent service is delivered by leading and managing staff annual leave requests and allocating workload within the team, assisting with prioritisation and ensuring equity of caseloads.

Set and maintain clinical and service performance standards, and support data collection and data analysis to enable optimum performance and service delivery.

Lead and manage the day to day operational nursing, personnel, performance and allocation of work, reporting directly to either the Matrons or General Manager.

Support the clinical leads on developing a countywide health needs profile and work with the Matrons and General Manager to secure funding to establish provision based on identified need.

Work in partnership with the team lead on staff development and performance within the team and ensure that all appraisals are completed annually and ensure feedback on performance is given at regular intervals throughout the year in conjunction with clinical lead.

Educate and support staff offering direction and leadership surrounding continual professional development and performance of best clinical practice with clinical lead.

Lead on change management within the team and initiate development of the CYPCNS to meet the often complex and changing health care needs of children in the community based on the best available evidence, working in collaboration with the clinical leads.

In conjunction with the service wide clinical leads, implement clinical policies, write and maintain care standards and clinical policies in line with SCFT Trust requirements, evaluate and adjust as required, in partnership with Matrons, General Manager and other senior team leads.

Ensure health records are maintained and compliant with SCFT Trust policy and keep accurate, legible, contemporaneous records and written reports as required.

Follow established procurement processes in relation to medical devices and consumables for children on the caseload and ensure that systems are in place to monitor training, maintenance and review of appropriateness.

Support staff with managing medical devices in the community and maintain accurate information regarding the medical devises compliance audit for safety and planned maintenance.

Assist the Named Nurse for Child Protection in co-ordinating child protection processes in accordance with Trust policy whilst supporting junior staff in understanding and exercising the Trust safeguarding policy and Sussex procedures

Initiate, maintain and analyse relevant service data which will demonstrate activity of the team and assist with identifying service needs as well as future direction and development.

Regularly evaluate, with the team lead, the clinical effectiveness of care and other resources being provided and make adjustments where appropriate in order to make the best use of CYPCNS

Develop, implement, and evaluate guidelines/teaching tools for children/families/colleagues, healthcare professionals for use within the service for care of identified health needs and promotion of well-being, in conjunction with the Clinical Leads, SCFT Education Department leads and Practice Development Nurses.

Participate in nursing research and audit projects pertinent to clinical community practice, as well as the strategic service direction in conjunction with CYPCNS quality and standards forums and Clinical Leads.

The successful candidate will join a Team which delivers excellent Childrens nursing services to the residents of Sussex, working in collaboration with our system partners across health, social and voluntary care.

You will have a full valid driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

Our key priority is the care and welfare of our patients and you will be an essential part of this dynamic service providing high quality community care to those who rely on us to enable them to return to, or remain in their own homes.

BSc/MSc Specialist Practice in Community Health/Specialist Practitioner Children's Community Nurse or BSc/MSc Children's Nurse Practitioner
Physical Assessment of Children/Young People at level 6/7 or equivalent
Community Nurse prescriber (V100) or willing to undertake training
Non-Medical/Independent Nurse Prescriber (V300) or willing to undertake training
Community Nurse prescriber (V100) or willing to undertake training
Extensive post registration relevant clinical children's community nursing experience at Band 6 or above
Significant experience working with a diverse range children and families in the community setting including complex care, palliative care & end of life care
Ability to develop policy, protocols, guidelines and education materials
Extensive experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education and volunteer agencies
Understanding of financial/budget management

Extensive post registration relevant clinical children's community nursing experience at Band 6 or above Significant experience working with a diverse range children and families in the community setting including complex care, palliative care & end of life care Recent experience of a relevant leadership role Proficient in teaching/mentoring/supervision/coaching Ability to develop policy, protocols, guidelines and education materials Extensive experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education and volunteer agencies Evidence of clinical audit, service evaluation & critical analysis Understanding of financial/budget management Proficient in a range of clinical competencies appropriate to the role e.

g airway management & Long Term Ventilation, enteral feeding, IV management, interpreting blood results, advanced bowel & bladder management, tissue viability & skin care, oncology care, management of the deteriorating child in the community and End of Life care Evidence of post registration professional development within the last three years
Other relevant advanced nursing qualifications at level 6/7 e.g Palliative & Complex Care, Advanced Communication, Safeguarding
Effective and proactive assessment and management of risk
Analytical skills including clinical reflection and action planning
Excellent understanding of children's communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; Implementation of research/audit in practice
Ability to prioritise service workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure
Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard
Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information/ distressing news, understanding when they need to seek supervision or assistance
Ability to travel as required to meet the needs of the service on a daily basis with a full valid driving licence

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.

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