Clinical Nurse Trainer

Job summary

The Community Specialist Children's Nursing Team is a key element within Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust. The remit of the Team is to provide Training of clinical competencies for children who have an identified health need to a variety of partner agencies including nurseries, child minders and schools to name a few.

The role will involve delivering a broad range of clinical competency training, including but not limited to gastrostomy care, catheterisation, and the administration of buccal midazolam. The post holder will be expected toadvocate for children and young people, working collaboratively with a variety of partner agencies to ensure their care needs are clearly understood and effectively met. Safeguarding is a fundamental responsibility for all team members; the post holder must consistently follow safeguarding protocols and provide guidance and support to colleagues in managing safeguarding concerns.

The Clinical Nurse Trainers cover the whole of Northamptonshire so excellent diary management and travel is essential.

Main duties of the job

The post holder must:

Have a range of clinical assessment skills.

Be able to provide training and competency assessment to NHFT staff, families and partner agencies.

Be able to support other grades of staff in gaining knowledge and skills to enable high quality care for children is maintained.

Be able to work as part of the team to provide nursing assessments, interventions and nursing care to children, young people and families on the caseload.

Be able to work as part of a mixed skill team in partnership with children and families/carers to implement individualised care plans to meet medical and nursing needs.

Be able lead and/or participate as required/requested in team activities.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Sudborough House St Mary's Hospital

Kettering

NN15 7PW

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Sudborough House St Mary's Hospital

Kettering

NN15 7PW

Employer's website

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

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