Children's Community Nurse

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Seeking a highly motivated children’s nurse to join our small friendly CCN team, someone who is passionate about providing the best care to children, young people and their families within the community setting.
Providing acute nursing care to children within their homes and other community settings as well as within the acute children’s ward, Medical day unit and Paediatric assessment unit.
Providing training and support to families, schools and carers to enable children and young people to live their lives away from the hospital setting.
To develop yourself and the service with training offered and encouraged.
Mentor student nurses.
To provide an acute paediatric community nursing service to the local area, supporting and working closely with Paediatric Department and specialist nurses. Liaising with the MDT, tertiary centres and local services and agencies to provide wrap around care. Managing a caseload of patients allowing you to build relationships with families to meet the needs of the child. As a team we manage the care of a variety of patients with caseloads in the following areas; oncology, haematology, cardiac, enteral, endocrine, rheumatology, eczema, home oxygen, acute medical needs such as growth/weights, home IV’s and wound management along with providing care to our patients that are palliative on a 24/7 basis when they reach end of life.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
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