Community Children's Nurse
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,720.00 to £39,769.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £32720.00 - £39769.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2024 |
| Location: | Sidcup, Kent,, DA14 6LT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-24-0777 |
Summary
Key Task and Responsibilities Ensuring theThe Community Childrens Nursing and Hospital at Home Service (0-19 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families. To work as part of the team providing nursing assessments and interventions to children. To work in partnership with children and families to implement individualised care plans to meet medical and nursing needs. To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual childrens care plans. To refer children to acute and other services as appropriate and required. To work collaboratively with other agencies to deliver clinical care pathways for children and families. To record accurately data as required by the service. To work as part of the Community Childrens Nursing Team to provide support in an area of special interest from acute to community settings. To provide support with specialist training to meet the childs needs. This may be to the child, their family or other professional working with the child in a variety of community settings. To attend specialist clinics with families to work towards multi professional assessment and care planning with the child and family. To work as part of a Multidisciplinary team to ensure a smooth discharge from acute care to community settings as well as smooth transitions into Adult Services. To participate in CAF/TAC, becoming a key worker for families where appropriate. Management responsibilities To provide and maintain high standards of nursing care at all times. To meet regularly with supervisor to discuss any concerns or significant changes in client care. To work under the direction of a Senior Childrens Community Nurse to organise time and daily caseload management. To ensure a risk assessment is undertaken before visiting any family and that attention to lone working guidance is observed. Ensure the effective and efficient use of resources. To act as a Champion for a identified area, attend relevant meetings and ensure team members up to date with relevant policies and guidelines. Leadership To act as role model to members of the nursing team and motivate them to work towards high standard of practice. To prioritise work load to ensure effective time management strategies are embedded within the nursing team, aware of competing pressures to ensure best practice. To exercise good personal time management, punctuality and consistent reliable attendance. To act as a mentor to students, under the supervision of a more senior colleague, helping to develop and support the students through their placements, completing documentation where necessary. Clinical To assess, plan and evaluate care of individual children within family context and refer to appropriate services. To support the delivery of care and interventions to meet the needs of individual children/ young people and families. To perform clinical procedures within sphere of competence. To empower families to care for their acutely ill child. Work across professional and organisational boundaries and facilitate partnership working. To identify limits of own knowledge and skills and seek advice as and when necessary from team members or specialist practitioners or other members of the multi-professional team. To be responsible for the reporting of incidents, comments and complaints from children, their family and other professionals involved with the child to the Team Manager. Research Work as part of the team to establish best practice protocols and guidelines for evidence-based practice. Participate in clinical nursing audit. To collect data as requested to inform practice and service development. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To undertake projects, audit and research in collaboration with the Community Childrens Nursing Team. Communication Work closely with professionals in the community and the acute setting to ensure a robust and safe nursing care for children and young people and their families. Support the clinical care pathway with hospital staff on all matters that affect the management and readmitting of child into hospital. Contribute to data collection and reporting systems. Maintain accurate nursing records.