Children's Continuing Care Practitioner

at  Whittington Health NHS Trust

The Children’s Continuing Care team are looking for an enthusiastic registered nurse, with a strong clinical background with supporting children with complex health care needs to join our team. The successful candidate will need to have a passion for working with children and their families, whilst helping to promote independence and wellbeing for children and young people with complex care needs.
Each day working in the continuing care team is different, and our team members are always looking for ways to overcome the issues that we face, so the successful candidate must enjoy a challenge, be a dynamic thinker and problem solver.
The successful candidate will be part of the clinical team, working independently managing their own case load and collaboratively with other key professionals whilst ensuring that they fulfil the ethos of looking after the whole child. They will have an opportunity to build cross agency relationships, whilst working closely with colleagues from Social care and Special Education Needs.
Working closely with our admin team the successful candidate will plan and coordinate their own MDT meetings, including support the arrangement of emergency provision for children who are fast tracked to the team due to needing end of life care or experiencing mental health crisis.
The successful candidate will participate in completing assessments as part of the ICB delivery of the NHS Continuing Care framework.
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the ‘Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities’ section.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
The Continuing Care Team works across the boroughs of Camden, Islington and Haringey consists of both qualified and associate care staff. The team co-ordinates and provides direct care into the homes of children who have complex life threatening/ life limiting conditions. These children have a range of conditions, some requiring ventilation via BiPAP/ CPAP. They require support both in and out of the home, some of them attending school.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the facilitation and organisation of care, as well as some direct care, for children and young people with continuing care health needs. They will be responsible for the effective assessing, planning, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of individualised nursing care to children as required and under the direction of the Senior Practitioner. The post holder will develop skills and knowledge in the use of the National Continuing Care Framework and participate in care assessments and reviews.
The post holder will support training and development of a team of carers to ensure all aspects of care are delivered safely to an allocated caseload. The post holder will support the Senior Care Team to continue the strategic development of the service.
The post holder will act up in the absence of the Senior Practitioner for the Continuing Care team; with excellent leadership and development opportunities.

Provide direct care to children with complex health needs in the home setting.
To train and develop Care staff through competencies to ensure they are sufficiently skilled to care for specific children on the complex care caseload.
To assist the senior practitioner in the supervision, teaching and supporting of a team of associate carers that provide health care support for children dependent on technology.
Supporting the Senior Practitioner in the review of care plans and outcomes, contributing to the regular reports for managers and commissioners.
Involve parents and young people in service review.
To attend staff and other relevant meetings/team days.
To demonstrate a commitment to implement elements of clinical governance and to contribute to improving standards of care in line with recommendations
To participate in research projects and /or innovations, including Quality Initiatives
To participate in the audit process for monitoring and reviewing quality.
To maintain up-to-date, accurate records, input work data into the computer and to provide written reports as requested
To be aware of and act in accordance with agreed policy procedures legislation and NMC standards