Senior Children's Community Nurse
Closed for applications on: 13-May-2024 08:05
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-May-2024 08:05
Key details
Location
- Site
- Evelina Children's Hospital/Sunshine House
- Address
- 27 Peckham Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE5 8UH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Compressed hours
Salary
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Children's Community Nursing Service
- Interview date
- 20/05/2024
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Evelina London is at the heart of a network of children’s health services in Lambeth and Southwark and across South-East England. We provide a comprehensive range of children’s health services, so that we are able to look after patients from antenatal diagnosis through childhood, into adolescence and on into adult services.
The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner providing high quality specialist nursing care to children in their homes. The post holder will be responsible for facilitating early discharge, reduce length of stay and prevent hospital admissions. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area. Ensuring the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.
Car driver essential. Pool cars (inc automatic) are provided for team use.
Closing Date: 12th May 2024 at Midnight
Proposed interview Date: 20th May 2024
Advert
The Evelina Children's Community Nursing Team works closely with acute services in local and specialist hospitals to ensure a seamless pathway of care for the child on discharge from the acute setting. Using evidence based practice and knowledge you will provide continuing responsibility for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of holistic nursing care for patients with both acute, long term and complex conditions.
You will provide expert support, training and advice to health visitors, school nurses and other professionals to ensure the broad range of needs of the client caseload are met in all community settings including home, nursery, specialist and mainstream school. The successful candidate will carry out and support specialist procedures in the community eg administration of intravenous antibiotics and chemotherapy, administration of medicines, wound care, care of central venous access devices, changing of tracheostomy and naso-gastric tubes.
Previous experience of working in a community setting and/or working autonomously with acute nursing skills is essential for this post.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job role is community based across Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark and works collaboratively with Primary, secondary and emergency care providers.
- Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialised individualised and personalised direct patient care
- Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action.
- Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
- Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products, to ensure safe custody of medications in the home setting.
- Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action.
- Act as an advocate for patients, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
- Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
- Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
- Recognise and monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate appropriate nursing interventions.
- To carry our specialist procedures in the community settings eg administration of intravenous antibiotics, care of central venous access devices and changing of naso gastric tubes.
- To regularly attend and liaise with acute hospital colleagues to enable timely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow up in the community.
- Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
- Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures to area.
- To assess care needs and liaise with other professionals in order to assist them to develop a care package and to provide clinical/professional advice relating to this.
- To use clinical judgement and expertise in assessing and implementing change during clinical visits eg :assessment of respiratory condition and management of change.
- Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available.
- Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management.
- Participate in case conferences in relation to the management of patients, ensuring the coordination of ongoing care.
- A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news such as caring for the terminally ill patients and the event of death.
- Assess educational and information needs for patients and families, and devise plans to ensure need are met.
- To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management. Provide advice contributing to the wellbeing of the patient and participate in health promotion to improve health and prevent re attendance.
- Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the ambulatory care service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
- Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationship between clinicians, practitioners and managers within the specialty, across the Trust and in the community including GP’s, Health visitors, School nurses and the Children Community Service
- Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review.
We will provide the successful candidate with the relevant in-house training and further education supported by our education department. You will be enrolled on a community development pathway that will include Evelina London Foundations in Children’s Community Care (EL FiCC) and Evelina London Paediatric Advanced Clinical Assessment (El Paca) that will mirror an enhanced skills pathway.
Please see attached Job description document for full details.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualification/Education/skills
Essential criteria
- RN child qualification
- Previous broad experience nursing sick children in hospital/community
- Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
Desirable criteria
- Community Experience
- Foundations of oncology course
- Cytotoxic Medication and introduction course
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
- SSSAP or Equivalent
- Experience of teaching/assessing/supervising others
- Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management
Desirable criteria
- Experience administering chemotherapy
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess/plan/implement and evaluate specialist care
- Able to work alone
- Ability to prioritise work effectively
- Time management and organisation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in mentoring students
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Stockwell
- Job title
- Team Leader CCNT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3049 7585
- Additional information
Charlotte Lucking
Team Leader
020 3049 7585
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