Children's Community Nurse

Job summary

Are you passionate about patient care? Join our supportive community-based paediatric team.

• Exciting opportunity for a highly motivated band 6 paediatric nurse in our Children's Community Nursing Service.
• Focus on acute conditions: short-term enteral feeding, IV antibiotics, oxygen therapy, wound care, and support for long-term conditions.
• Collaboration with allied professionals, the wider multi-disciplinary team, social care, and local education providers

Main duties of the job

• Seeking Band 6 children's nurses with motivation to work in our integrated Children's Community Nursing Service.
• Requires the ability to work autonomously and within a collaborative nursing team.
• Involvement in acute and long-term condition treatments, continuing care assessments, and support for clinical nurse specialists.
• Special duties include supporting clinical nurse specialists in asthma, haemoglobinopathy, and continence care.

About us

Why Join Our Team?

• Recently nominated for a Nursing Times Award 2023 for 'Specialist health visiting to asylum-seeking families.'
• HSJ Award winner 2018 for Health Visiting skill mix work.
• Training opportunities, including a preceptorship for newly qualified Health Visitors.
• Specialist opportunities for career progression.
• Restorative clinical supervision for practitioners.
• Extensive experience using skill mix within the 0-19 team.
• Utilisation of the MECSH program to improve child outcomes.
• Development of the Strengthening Families pathway for vulnerable family.

Why join our Trust?

• Unique community healthcare setting emphasising personalisation, independence, and belonging.
• Recognised as 'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction' by Nursing Times in 2018.
• Best response rate in NHS Staff Survey 2020 among community trusts nationally.
• Our colleagues often describe us as a family, fostering support and belonging. It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.
• Top community trust in the country for Quality of care for the third consecutive year.
• Highest percentage of staff satisfied with care delivery to patients.

Employer details

Employer name

Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust

Address

Whitton Corner

Percy Road

Whitton

TW2 6JL

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust

Address

Whitton Corner

Percy Road

Whitton

TW2 6JL

Employer's website

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

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