Community Children's Nurse

Job summary

The Community Children's Nursing Team (CCNT) in Gateshead are looking for a dynamic, hardworking Band 5 paediatric nurse to work with the team on secondment for a period of 12 months. The post holder will contribute to the delivery of an effective Children's Nursing service that is provided by a team of highly skilled practitioners. The team deliver clinical support to families, children and young people in their own homes or community.

Main duties of the job

Works collaboratively with other local health care professionals/providers to maintain high quality care and promote practice that is child and family focused within the locality.

To supervise students and delegate work appropriately according to skill mix ensuring maintenance of safety within the community.

To assess the health and health related needs of patients, clients, their families and other carers and identify and initiate appropriate steps for effective care for the individuals and groups.

To assess and treat specific diseases in accordance with agreed medical protocols.

To assess, plan, provide and evaluate specialist clinical nursing care to meet care needs of individual patients and carers in their own homes.

To oversee the provision of individual patient care by personal participation in order to maintain skills as an expert practitioner and provide an effective role model for the nursing team and others in the multi-disciplinary team.

To analyse and evaluate personal clinical performance in a reflective manner to ensure continued personal and professional development and the maintenance of an up-to-date knowledge base.

To work with Trust policies and procedures that ensure patient safety at all times

To work as specialist practitioner within a multi-disciplinary of an integrated workforce that is based in the community.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.