Senior Integrated Community Children's NurseinPortsmouthinPortsmouthPUBLISHED TUE 12 NOV 2024
This position requires a highly skilled and enthusiastic individual who is adaptable to the evolving needs of children and their families. The iCCN team is dedicated to providing high-quality in-reach and outreach services to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and ensure children receive appropriate care in various settings, including home and school. Flexible working options are available, emphasizing the Trust's commitment to supporting its employees.
Meet Jeniyah, one of our Childrens Nurses: www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsoltF 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 range of nursing needs.
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.
*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
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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