Senior Integrated Community Children's Nurse

1 week ago


Portsmouth, United Kingdom Solent NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

The iCCN team provide specialist nursing care, support and co-ordination of care to children and young people with complex health care needs and disabilities. These may include those with life limiting/life threatening conditions, chronic illnesses, palliative care needs, end of life care needs and short-term acute care needs including urgent care pathways.

Due to exciting developmental opportunities, we are seeking highly skilled, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Senior Community Children's Nurses for our integrated Community Children's Nursing (iCCN) team.

Our established, passionate and dedicated iCCN team work collaboratively with children, young people, families, and the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is provided as close to home as possible. We provide high quality and holistic, family centred care to children and young people (CYP) with a nursing need including those with:

*Acute and short-term conditions

*Long term conditions

*Disabilities, complex conditions, those requiring continuing care and neonates.

*Life-limiting and life-threatening illness, including those requiring palliative and end of life care.

As a Senior CCN you will have the opportunity to shape and lead our responsive service as it continually adapts to the ever-changing needs of the families. Having a key role in leading care plans, training, and multi-disciplinary liaison for CYP with a range of needs within their home, school, and wider community.

Main duties of the job

*The iCCN service aims to provide a high quality in reach and outreach nursing service which enables early, safe planned discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admissions.

*Manage a caseload. Provide specialised, high quality skilled nursing care, considering the physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs of the child with nursing care needs. This will include those with complex health care needs, palliative care needs, life-limiting illnesses and children dependant on technology (and those requiring short term support). This requires developing, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes of care.

*Support the management of the integrated acute and community care pathways for children with short term conditions

*Provide supervision and monitoring of junior staff with support of team leader.

*Work with families to provide emotional support and specialist clinical care, sensitive to the changing and on-going needs of the child, siblings, parents and other carers.

*Teach families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enables them to feel confident and competent in caring for the child.

About us

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The teams deliver care for a wide range of children and young people with nursing needs across the community. We provide support and family centred nursing care for those who may have.

Acute and short-term conditions

Long term conditions

Disabilities, complex health conditions, continuing care needs.

Life limiting, life-threatening illness, including palliative and end of life care.

Our services aim to reduce preventable and avoidable hospital admissions, facilitate early discharge thereby reducing length of stay and support the care of children, young people and their families within their homes, schools, and wider community.

Full job description attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMC CCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification or willingness to complete within 2 years of being appointed Practice assessor/supervisor

Experience

Essential

Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients Experience of MDT working Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students Evidence of recent CPD or desire to progress

Additional Criteria

Essential

Clinically competent at Band 6 level Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding Ability to work autonomously; prioritise workload, instruct and direct others, work is managed rather than supervised; works within clear code of practice Problem solving skills Advocacy skills Teaching, supervision and assessing skills Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing /evaluating patients' conditions Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others There is a frequent requirement for physical effort manoeuvring patient and moving equipment Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues Ability to adapt to change within work situation There is a frequent requirement to manage unpleasant working conditions body fluids Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion Understanding of a range of clinical approaches Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues Knowledge of health promotion UK Driving Licence and use of a car to carry out community visits.

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