Community Children's Staff Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To provide high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to BCYP in their home, school, nursery, or other community settings, consistently working within the scope of competencies achieved as outlined in the Nursing Workbook and Competency Handbook for the Community Childrens Nursing Service.
• To work in partnership with the child, young person and their family and carers, to identify individual needs and deliver nursing care. To encourage and support self-management and independence of clients and families, providing training and support within limits of identified competence.
• Work alongside the nurses, nurse associates and students to develop nursing skills and nursing practice in order to be fully competent in their roles.
• To work as part of the Community Childrens Nursing Service to ensure the ongoing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised evidence based care.
• Develop with other team members effective liaison with local statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations. Providing contribution to multidisciplinary assessments for children and young people. Attendance and contribution to multi-disciplinary, multi-agency meetings and discharge planning meetings.
• Participate in the education, training and monitoring required to meet care needs of children and young people in their home, and community settings including schools, nurseries.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification/training

Essential

• RN Child Branch
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

Essential

• Experience and interest in working in Community children's nursing (special school)
• Awareness of the importance of child protection
• awareness of the learning needs of children, young people, families and registered/non registered staff
• knowledge of clinical skills in children's nursing
• good communication skills verbal and non verbal
• Ability to view problems objectively and find solutions
• Ability to work with members of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to teach and support assessments or registered and non registered staff

Desirable

• Knowledge of child protection process

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

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Appleby Health Centre

63 Appleby Road

London

E16 1LQ

Employer's website

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