Senior Community Children's Nurse

Job summary

The Children's Community Nursing (CCN) pathway works across Devon to provide nursing care and is currently comprised of three teams; the CCN team, Special School Nursing team, and the Palliative Care team. The teams work closely together to provide a high quality responsive and dynamic service for children and young people in the community.

We are looking for a Children's Nurse with extensive experience of respiratory nursing support of Children and Young People to join our CCN Team. We could be flexible about where this post is based across our County-wide service. The successful candidate should have proven experience of working with children who have complex disability including conditions that require respiratory support for example Long Term Ventilation, oxygen therapy, management of an unsafe airway. They must be able to demonstrate the ability to work well within a team environment and be able to work autonomously and ideally have community nursing experience.

You will care for children with a wide variety of health conditions providing nursing care to promote care close to home and avoid hospital admission. You will work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide exceptional levels of nursing care to our patients and strive to continually improve care in partnership with patients and families. You will be identified as a source of expert knowledge and skills in respiratory care.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a robust training programme to families and carer's in addition to the wider CCN team in order to promote safe care delivery in a variety of community settings.
• 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

About us

Why work with us -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.