Children's Community Nurse: band 6NHS

Job summary

Children's Community Nurse: band 6 - Permanent (30 hours) We are looking for an experienced and motivated Children's Community Nurse to join our Children's Community Nursing Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as an autonomous practitioner, providing high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to children and young people with acute, chronic, complex and palliative care needs within their own homes and community settings.

The successful candidate will work closely with Paediatric Same Day Emergency Care (PSDEC), inpatient wards, Emergency Department, General Practice and the wider multidisciplinary team to support admission avoidance, facilitated discharge and care closer to home.

The role also provides opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement, pathway redesign and audit, supporting the continued development of integrated acute and community services.

We are looking for a confident, compassionate and proactive nurse with excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills, who is able to work effectively under pressure and across professional and organisational boundaries.

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and families and developing innovative models of care closer to home, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as an autonomous Children's Community Nurse, providing high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to children and young people with acute, chronic, complex and palliative care needs within their own homes and community settings.

• Undertake comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• Manage a varied community caseload, prioritising changing clinical needs and responding appropriately to deterioration.
• Provide specialist nursing interventions and support children and families to manage complex and long-term conditions at home.
• Assess and triage referrals from PSDEC, inpatient wards, primary care and other services to determine suitability for community management.
• Support admission avoidance, facilitated discharge and Virtual Ward pathways, working closely with acute and community colleagues.
• Undertake home visits and virtual reviews, providing timely community intervention where clinically appropriate.
• Participate in daily clinical handovers and multidisciplinary discussions to identify children who may benefit from community nursing intervention.
• Work collaboratively with children, families and the wider multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.
• Recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns and escalate clinical concerns appropriately.
• Support and supervise junior staff and students and contribute to teaching and education.

Job description

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specifications focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice