Children's Community Nurse

at  Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Are you an innovative and experienced qualified Nurse?
Have you got experience of working with children and young people with acute, short and/or long term/complex nursing needs?
Want to lead holistic nursing care within a professional, passionate and supportive team?
Keen to develop your leadership skills and influence development of quality clinical practice?
We have a great opportunity for you to join our Children’s Community Nursing (CCN) Team;
You will be leading holistic assessment, care planning and review of clinical care for children and
young people with a range of health needs to optimise their health outcomes. All our CCN’s lead on
an area of community practice eg IV’s enteral, palliative care, respiratory, oncology. It is important for
you to develop and continually influence good quality practice in the community and with partner
organisations.
We recognise it may feel daunting to move into a leadership role in the community setting, where
you’ll be expected to lead and work independently. If you are an experienced Band 5 and have the
required clinical experience we would still love to hear from you. We have successfully supported
others to grow their career and achieve competencies for the Band 6 role within a year.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
The post requires the job holder to have excellent communication skills, time management skills,
clinical competence to deliver clinical nursing care independently and respond to unexpected
demands and scenarios in a variety of community settings.
The ability to travel daily during the working day sometimes at short notice is therefore essential.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Co-ordinates the day-to-day provision of the CCN caseload, ensuring patient’s needs are met, new referrals triaged in a timely manner and workload allocated according to need.
To undertake clinical assessments, implement, deliver, and evaluate nursing care for children and young people within a defined caseload in clinics, patient’s homes, schools or other appropriate community settings.
To deliver skilled clinical nursing care which may include administration of Intravenous therapy, injections, syringe pumps, blood taking via central venous access devices, wound care, nursing support for all types of enteral feeding tubes, tracheostomy care, bowel and bladder devices.
Using a case-co-ordination approach support families to understand and manage their child’s condition safely at home and in collaboration with multi-agency providers to ensure the child’s aspirations and health needs are central to decision making and maximise their opportunities
to develop.
To provide patient/parent/carer training and assessment of competence.
To assist in the discharge planning process of a child’s transfer from hospital to home to identify clinical care and support that can be safely delivered in the community.
To act as a signpost for families enabling them to access support from a range of statutory and voluntary organisations.
If you have a non-medical prescribing qualification, you will be expected to practice as a prescriber as part of this role.
To ensure that clinical guidelines and electronic patient record systems are evidence based and maintain clinical effectiveness

Please refer the Job description for details