Senior Community Children's Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a band 5 or 6 Children's Nurse RSCN or RN (child) with experience, knowledge and skills in nursing children with complex health and special needs to join our Children's Community Nurse team as a Senior Community Children's Nurse.

Our Children's Community Nursing pathway works across Devon to provide a high quality, responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting.

You will care for children who attend special school and have a wide variety of complex health conditions. You will work in partnership with the school, other health service providers and agencies to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to our patients. You will promote inclusion and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.

You should have proven experience of working with children who have acute and complex medical conditions and be confident in providing training to their carers. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work well within a team environment, be able to work autonomously and ideally have community nursing experience.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist nursing support, advice and interventions within the multiagency ethos of children and family health services for children and their families.
• To assist in promoting the health and well-being of children with complex nursing needs, to enable them to achieve the maximum benefit from their educational opportunities.
• To provide case management of an identified caseload of children with highly complex and/or long term conditions by utilising and promoting evidence based care.
• To provide nursing care, support, training, advice and education to children, families and carers in order to meet the children's health needs in the school and community environment.
• To provide children and young people with the opportunity to express their views in an individually appropriate way, having to have their opinions taken into account to develop the services
• To support symptom management at end of life within the community setting including providing on call cover for provision of care outside of normal working hours (role dependent)

About us

Why work with us -The Children's Community Nursing team works closely together to provide a high quality responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community setting across Devon.

We work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to infants, children and young people and strive to continually improve care with the involvement of patients and families.

This is your chance to develop within a progressive and innovative service that is children, young people, families and staff focused.

Wellbeing of staff within the team remains a priority along with the delivery of excellent safe care to the children & families that we support. Youcan be sure that they will be well supported within a friendly and compassionate team who value the contribution of each individual team member.