University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Children's Community Nurse
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Job Summary
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic Children's trained nurse with experience in nursing children to join our team.
The Children's Community Nursing Service is a small but well-established service that provides care to children and young people who have an identified nursing need/long-term health need, supporting and empowering families to manage their child at home and in a variety of settings across Solihull.
You will be part of a multi-professional team and will require excellent communication skills. We will offer a comprehensive induction and competency programme; prior competency evidence of IV therapy, Venepuncture/blood sampling, enteral feeding device care, tracheostomy care, and Medical Devices will be considered useful.
The team regularly operates from 09.00-18.30 hours Monday to Friday and Saturday and bank holidays 09.00-13.00 hours. This post is for 37.5 hours per week routinely worked over 5 days. This post is to cover maternity leave.
Daily access to your own vehicle for managing community visits is essential.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
- You will be required to manage a named caseload of children under the supervision of a senior nurse and will be expected to manage your own time and use your own initiative to provide evidenced-based quality care.
- You will assess and plan the care needs of children/young people and their families in the home, their school, and other community settings. Your assessment and interventions will take into consideration the immediate and long-term physical, psychological, and social impact of diagnosis and treatment and identify the impact of this on a child/young person's development.
- You will have good knowledge and experience of working within Safeguarding procedures and will be expected to attend/support the team to attend Multidisciplinary team meetings and Safeguarding meetings. As a member of this team, you will be supported with regular clinical supervision, appraisal, and relevant team meetings.
- A flexible working approach and an enthusiasm for long-term, complex, palliative, and end-of-life care is essential.
- The role will entail teaching and sharing information with parents, carers, students, and other professionals and experience in teaching others would be valuable.
If you have the relevant experience or are interested in widening your experience, would like to join a small, friendly, and proactive team, and are committed to improving the outcomes for children and their families, then please apply.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value, and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values-driven in all that we do, and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such, we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long-term health condition, mental health, or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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Job Description
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Sick Children's Nurse/Child Branch.
- Recognised Teaching Qualification.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Recognised Teaching Qualification.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-registration experience.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to utilise IT skills to document events on a day-to-day basis, write up minutes from meetings, and disseminate accordingly.
- To supervise junior staff on a day-to-day basis, to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff.
- Dexterity and coordination are required for IV, CVL, IM interventions, the administration of medications, passing of naso-gastric, gastrostomy, and tracheostomy tubes.
- Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safeguarding and disability.
- Knowledge of recognised health-related issues in children and young people with complex and life-limited conditions.
Desirable
- Experience of working within the community setting.
- Evidence of ability to train carers/children and young people/staff.
- Recognition of children continuing care.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Able to listen and be a good communicator in a variety of settings/services and enthuse others -- can communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding.
- Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well-being of clients in a holistic way.
- Able to plan, assess, implement care, and evaluate complex activities such as hospital discharge or packages of care.
- Able to work on your own initiative and be self-directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care.
- Able to demonstrate innovation in the current area of practice.
- Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent.
- Good team-working skills.
- Effective time management skills.
- Professionally up-to-date.
- Innovative.
- Reliable.
- Able to pass occupational health clearance.
- Able to maintain professional appearance.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet operational needs of the team and wider organisations.
- To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non-judgmental, reliable, and honest.
- Car driver, with independent means of transport on a daily basis.
- Willing to undertake Disclosure and Barring Service at Enhanced level.
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Desirable
- Use Trust IT system.
- Enthusiastic.
- Resourceful.
- IT skills.
- Sense of humour.
- Clean driving licence: less than 3 points on licence.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Sarah Kirk
01217464436
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£32073.00 to £39043.00 Yearly
Contract
Fixed Term
Duration
12 Month(s)
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018714
Job locations
Children’s Community Nursing
Third Floor, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 4BN
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Job Description
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