Senior Community Children's Nurse - Children's Continuing CareNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Community Children's Nurse to work in the Continuing Care Team as a clinical lead. This is a clinical role to manage the continuing care caseload, it is separate and apart from the undertaking of continuing care assessments and care package set up, the focus of the nurse will be to lead on areas related to direct clinical care.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring the Continuing Care Team (0-18 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.
• Identifying new theories, policies and guidelines relating to complex health needs care in the community; disseminating research findings and developing local policies and standards accordingly.
• Providing professional and clinical leadership to all children's community nursing staff, ensuring that they are engaged with and adhering to local policies, guidelines and expectations.
• Assessing nursing care needs, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of nursing care for children and young people on the caseload.

Job description

The role will be integrated within the existing Community Childrens Nursing Team and the Childrens Continuing Care Team, who are part of an integrated network of services for children and young people in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and generic childrens community nurses provides skilled, high quality, comprehensive nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing towards ongoing developments of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including policies, protocols, guidelines and collaborate with the wider multidisciplinary team implementing acute pathways between the hospitals, GP and diagnostic hubs into the community.

The post holder will provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care. To provide clear visible leadershipsupervision, caseload management and professional clinical expertise to the clinical skills nurse trainers in the team, to ensure every aspect of the child and families experience is delivered in a safe, efficient and evidence-based manner.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care