Clinical Nurse Specialist - Children's

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for a better work-life balance? Do you have experience in complex care, A&E, critical care, or ICU settings? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Clinical Nurse Specialist!

Location: Peterborough

Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum (plus bonus)

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Essential: A valid NMC Pin, 2 years post-qualification experience, and a UK Driver's License.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will split your time between our office in Peterborough (2-3 days per week) and working within the community (2-3 days per week), travelling to clients' homes, predominantly across Nottingham, Leicester, and Lincoln.

Its a specialist role that requires clinical expertise along with the ability to manage and prioritise workloads. Were looking for someone who shares our values and is as passionate about care as we are.

Duties include:

• Taking clinical ownership of your service user caseload, creating and managing bespoke care plans.
• Leading and delivering clinical training for Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers.
• Ensuring a compliant, high-quality, person-centred care service.
• Reviewing clinical paperwork and MAR Charts.
• Building strong relationships with service users and their care teams.
• Providing ongoing mandatory training and development in line with national standards.

Key clinical skills needed include:

• Airway Management (Tracheostomy Care)
• Ventilation Management
• Enteral Feeding
• Suctioning
• Experience of delivering clinical interventions with children
• Knowledge of spinal injury care, acquired brain injury care, and neurological conditions is beneficial however, we do offer additional training to enhance your clinical skills.

We are confident that by joining our team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, we can offer you the work-life balance that you have been seeking by offering you core working hours between 9am 5pm, Monday to Friday.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply today!

Read below for a further insight on this role from our Head of Clinical:

"The Clinical Nurse Specialist role offers nurses the best of both worlds with a combination of office-based duties such as delivering training, supporting the wider team and writing care plans with patient contact where you will spend time in the field building relationships with your patients and their families, developing bespoke care plans and upskilling HCAs to deliver clinical tasks.The role is predominantly Monday to Friday 9-5, with some flexibility to meet the specific needs of your caseload, but you will always receive time back. This can sound to good to be true, but is just another example of the benefits of being part of the Apollo Home Healthcare team."

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A valid NMC Pin, 2 years post-qualification experience

Experience

Essential

• Airway Management (Tracheostomy Care)
• Ventilation Management
• Enteral Feeding
• Suctioning
• Experience of delivering clinical interventions with children
• Knowledge of spinal injury care, acquired brain injury care, and neurological conditions is beneficial however, we do offer additional training to enhance your clinical skills.

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.

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

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

The Rectory

Church Street

Grantham

Lincolnshire

NG316RR

Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)