Community Nurse for Children with Disabilities
4 weeks ago
About the Role
The Community and School Nurse will be a proactive nurse who works flexibly across the community and in our special schools delivering holistic, family-centered care for children and young people with complex health needs and disabilities. This is a dynamic role encompassing assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of clinical nursing care.
This will also involve delivery of specialist nursing care, including but not limited to: administration of medication, suctioning, tracheostomy care, gastrostomy management, and enteral feeding, seizure management.
The post holder will provide comprehensive support for children/young people and their families, including signposting to specialist services. They will deliver specialist training for families and care support staff, attend multi-professional meetings, including child protection case conferences.
They will also provide health advice for education, health, and care plans, nursing sleep service-supporting children with sleep difficulties, reviewing sleep medication, and offering support and strategies to parents.
The post holder will be mentoring, supporting, and supervising junior staff and student nurses.
About Us
Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company that has a public sector ethos, combined with the freedom to innovate enabling us to do things differently. As a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three local authorities (Windsor & Maidenhead, Kingston, and Richmond), we offer the freedoms of a social enterprise with the employment benefits of local government.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse (RN Child/RSCN). RGN will be considered with relevant experience.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing qualification (desirable)
- Community qualification (desirable)
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience in nursing.
- Community/special school nursing experience.
- Experience working with children and young people with disabilities/complex health needs.
- Experience supporting staff and students and providing supervision.
- Experience working with challenging families and ability to manage conflict.
- Safeguarding knowledge and experience.
- Ability to work well as part of a team.
- Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships, and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people, and their families.
- Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, and written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children, or young people).
- Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example, Children's Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children's services and your role.
- Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- A passion for Achieving for Children's vision, mission, and values (trust, empower, respect) to support children and young people to live safe, happy, healthy, and successful lives.
- Able to use a range of digital hardware or software to support your work effectively (Microsoft or Google software).
- Strong organisational abilities including: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving, and multitasking.
- Able to work flexibly and independently with limited management oversight.
- Personal determination, drive, energy, and ambition to achieve challenging objectives, celebrate success, and deliver excellent outcomes for children using a strength-based approach.
- Commitment to resource-sharing and collaborative working within Achieving for Children and across organisational boundaries in the best interests of children and families.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills that are open, honest, persuasive, and pragmatic, including excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- Car driver and access to a car for work purposes.
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