CAMHS Community Nurse inEastleigh inEastleigh PUBLISHED
TUE 24 DEC 2024
The position is supported by a collaborative environment, with ongoing learning opportunities, regular supervision, and team support focused on professional development. The Trust values flexibility in working arrangements and aims to maintain an inclusive recruitment process, encouraging diverse candidates to apply. The successful candidate will act as an autonomous practitioner responsible for a defined caseload, aligning with the Trust's nursing strategy and maintaining the highest standards of care.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare has exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Community Nurse.
Eastleigh CAMHS is a Community CAMHS team within Hampshire CAMHS, and is made up of a wide range of professionals. We offer a supportive and engaging environment, with opportunities for learning constantly offered, regular supervision is in place, and peer support is readily available. We try to focus on wellbeing, have regular team days and time, and value the role of the Nurse highly. Nurses are supported across teams with their CPD, learning opportunities, and this year have had a specific Nurses awayday, which was very well received by those who attended.
The role of Community Nurse is to work in partnership with young people and families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the well-being of children, young people and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for student nurses.
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner who will carry continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of service users by undertaking the following duties:
*To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop alongside the service user their care plan.
*To offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
*To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
*To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.
*To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
*To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
*To act within the NMC code of conduct at all times.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone -- if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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