Children's Community Nurse – CH HOME - Fixed Term

Job description

Job responsibilities

• High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patient journey.

• Assess, plan and implement ambulatory, unscheduled care within the acute hospital and community environment to facilitate timely early discharge and reduce readmission to hospital

• Provides highly specialist advice and treatment planning support to clinical areas and to own caseload of patients.

• Work closely with primary care working within unscheduled care.

• To provide CCN education to other staff and students ensuring developing and maintaining basic specialist knowledge and skills in the wider clinical teams to ensure continuity of high-quality care.

• Advocate for the child /young person to ensure their needs are always safeguarded. Adhere to the trust and local child protection and safeguarding policy.

• Deliver CCN services within an interagency, multi professional context Signpost, collaborate and refer to ensure that comprehensive care based on assessed need is delivered.

• To carry out all duties and conduct themselves in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.

• Recognise own strengths and limitations and ask for help when unsure and thereby act as an assertive and responsible practitioner

• To value others and their contribution to the team by:

• Recognising and valuing individual attributes of team members

• Displaying sensitivity to colleagues needs and feelings

• Acknowledging equal opportunities for all team members

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Qualification
• Post qualifyinng
• Community experience

Desirable

• Hospital at home experience
• Band 6 experience
• Lone working

Community expereince

Essential

• community experirenc e

Desirable

• Hospital at home experience

Post Qualifying

Essential

• 2 years post qualifying

Desirable

• band 6 expereince

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Poole

Longfleet Road

Poole

BH15 2AJ

Employer's website

https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)