Job summary
We are recruiting for a Community Children's Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Are you a compassionate and motivated children's nurse looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and their families? We are seeking an enthusiastic children's nurse to join our dynamic team, providing high quality, family centred care in community settings.
You will provide care, support, education and advice to children and their families supporting a generic caseload, working within community and hospital setting.
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The Community Children's Nurse willdeliver specialist nursing interventions to children and young people with acute, chronic and complex health needs in a community setting including family homes, nurseries and schools
To work collaboratively with families, hospital teams and other community services to provide holistic, person centred care
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care
Provide nursing care including respiratory, oncology, rheumatology, palliative and end of life care
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse
- Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Willingness to undertake further training as required
- ENB 998/Mentorship and Preceptorship Qualification
Desirable
- Community Experience
- Community Nurse Practitioner Qualification
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience within Paediatric Nursing
- Proven management experience (Ward or Equivalent)
- Understanding of current policies and documents
- Experience supporting caseload of patients
- Having the ability to work under pressure to manage workload and meet deadlines.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in writing, implementing and evaluating treatment plans
- Sound understanding of Young people and the difficulties they can experience and is confident to work with them and their carers
- Used to dealing with sensitive issues
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training, presenting and assessing professionals, families, students.
- Experience writing/reviewing and updating policy considering new evidence based practice.
- Experience working as an autonomous practitioner
- Experience of audit or research
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness clinical skills, updates and expectations within Paediatric Community Nursing
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate leadership
Other Requirements
Essential
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse
- Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Willingness to undertake further training as required
- ENB 998/Mentorship and Preceptorship Qualification
Desirable
- Community Experience
- Community Nurse Practitioner Qualification
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience within Paediatric Nursing
- Proven management experience (Ward or Equivalent)
- Understanding of current policies and documents
- Experience supporting caseload of patients
- Having the ability to work under pressure to manage workload and meet deadlines.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in writing, implementing and evaluating treatment plans
- Sound understanding of Young people and the difficulties they can experience and is confident to work with them and their carers
- Used to dealing with sensitive issues
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training, presenting and assessing professionals, families, students.
- Experience writing/reviewing and updating policy considering new evidence based practice.
- Experience working as an autonomous practitioner
- Experience of audit or research
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness clinical skills, updates and expectations within Paediatric Community Nursing
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate leadership
Other Requirements
Essential
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
