Senior Childrens Community NurseinSouthamptoninSouthamptonPUBLISHED WED 23 OCT 2024
In addition to delivering specialized nursing care tailored to the physical, psychological, and social needs of children, Senior CCNs will play a vital role in leading and shaping the service to meet families' evolving needs. The successful candidate will engage with multidisciplinary teams, teach families to perform specific nursing tasks, and stay updated on clinical practices and developments within the field. Flexible working options are available, and the Trust supports ongoing professional development in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council's requirements.
Due to exciting developmental opportunities, we are now seeking highly skilled, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Senior Community Children's Nurses for our Community Children's Nursing (CCN) team.
Our established, passionate, and dedicated CCN 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 across the Southampton and west Hampshire area 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.
We are looking to recruit Registered Children's Nurses who have undertaken or willing to undertake a Specialist Practitioner qualification in CCN. The candidate will ideally have community experience and confidence in managing a caseload. 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.
*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.
*Participate fully in the on call rota with other Children's Community Nurses and to take responsibility for providing end-of-life care out of hours as required.
*Demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, keeping up-to-date with new developments in nursing care and treatments ensuring practice is evidence based by utilizing current research.
*Maintain a personal and professional profile and fulfil training requirements as required by the Nurses and Midwives Council (NMC)
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.
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