Community Children's Staff Nurse

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Registered Childrens Nurse
• Teaching and mentorship qualification
• car driver /owner
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

ARE YOU A QUALIFIED PAEDIATRIC NURSE INTERESTED IN GAINING EXPERIENCE IN A COMMUNITY CHILDREN’S NURSING BAND 6 ROLE?

An exciting opportunity a permanent post in the Community Children’s Nursing Service, based at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust . We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic Children’s Nurse, who is passionate about providing high quality care to Children /Young people in the community setting . You will ideally have 2 years post graduate general paediatric experience . Car owner and driver essential.
Epsom and St Helier children’s services have been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’ as well as being given great feedback from the London Healthy Partnership peer review. Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children is based at the St Helier site. Children are seen in the dedicated Paediatric A&E which sits alongside the adult ED; Outpatient clinics, Ward and assessment unit.
We recognise that our team members are our greatest asset – it’s their hard work and effort that really makes a difference. That’s why we encourage our staff to fulfil their full potential. We’ll do everything we can to support you, along with offering excellent learning and development opportunities.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

With support from Senior CCN Service members you will :

• Support the transition of Children and Young people from Hospital to home.
• Provide specialist knowledge to meet the diverse range of needs of patients and their families in a variety of community and hospital settings, acting as a resource of paediatric expertise and providing advice to other professionals, promoting evidence based practice.
• You will hold a clinical caseload within your scope of competency
• You will have responsibility for the ongoing assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of outcomes of specialised nursing care in partnership with children, young people, their families.
• Work in partnership with the wider Multi disiplinary team.
• Safeguarding
• Documentation as per NMC
• Main Clinical responsibilities will be ; Medicines management, blood sampling and administration of medications IV , IM , S/C and CVAD’S. Wound management, and Care of Children and young people with Complex health needs.
• Effective Team Player with ability to work autonomously in patients homes. Working collaboratively with Children /Young people/ their families and multidisciplinary teams

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role