Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Children's Community Nurse
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About the Role
The Community Children’s nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high-quality specialist child-centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.
To work within Special Schools, paediatric continence clinics, and continuing care packages.
The Community Children’s nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high-quality specialist child-centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children with a nursing need in the special school environment as well as their own homes or community settings.
Responsibilities
- Provide a high standard of evidenced-based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: acute and long-term conditions, children with disabilities, and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end-of-life care.
- Provide clear visible leadership and professional clinical expertise to the Band 5 Children’s Community Nurses in the whole team to ensure every aspect of the child and families' experience is delivered in a safe, efficient, and evidence-based manner.
- Manage a caseload of children and young people autonomously.
- Support junior staff members within the team.
- Lead on improvement projects.
- Lead on audits.
- Work in various community settings.
- Support children and young people across the paediatric continence service, children's continuing care, special school nursing, and children's community nursing.
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About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
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We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose
To improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Madeleine Bradley
- Job title: Matron
- Email address: madeleine.bradley@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0208 294 3122
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