Children and Young People's Community Nurse

• Manage the delivery of quality nursing care, support, information and advice, for a delegated CCNT caseload, helping to ensure that appropriate resources are available to assist in providing this care.
• Support and educate staff offering clinical specialist knowledge and skills for the delivery of nursing care for children in the CCNT caseload.
• Maintain excellent communication channels with service stakeholders.
• Multi-disciplinary team working and liaison
• Help develop, implement and review clinical protocols and standard operating procedures which assist in delivering safe care and best nursing practice.
• Develop clinical skills and knowledge within the team, ensuring the relevant clinical skills required for management of safe nursing care are maintained.
• Provide teaching regarding the use of equipment and treatment regimes in the community for children, families/carers and staff involved.
• Excellent record keeping.
• Act as a resource and role model of children's community nursing specialist practice to all other professionals and work colleagues.
• Attend essential and relevant clinical practice updates in tertiary centres and special interest groups both within the Trust, locally and nationally to help develop and contribute towards establishment of clinical practice standards.
• Support the Team Lead with caseload and staff management.

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Essential

• Registered Nurse Child
• BSc in Specialist Practice in Community Health/Specialist Practitioner Children's Nurse or recent evidence of working towards specialist qualification in community nursing
• Mentorship module or equivalent

Desirable

• Postgraduate Module/Diploma in relevant subject e.g, Intensive Care of Children, Safeguarding Children, Physical assessment
• Nurse Prescribing for Community Practitioners (V100)

Essential

• Significant post registration relevant clinical experience
• Experience of working autonomously managing a caseload of children in a community setting and/or on a children's ward.
• Experience of teaching / health promotion
• Experience of planning, managing and helping co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education and volunteer agencies
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate to the role
• Evidence of post registration professional development
• Experience of working with children and families/carers at the end of life.

Desirable

• Experience with clinical Audit
• Experience of clinical supervision

Essential

• Ability to travel as required to meet the needs of the service on a daily basis. A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Essential

• Proficient clinical assessment and care planning skills
• Understanding of common care pathways and nursing care needs across tertiary, local hospital and community settings.
• Good understanding of children's communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; can identify their changing individual needs and preferences and promote independence.
• Ability to prioritise own workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure
• Ability to help develop, set up and implement new working practices, structures to support them, and evaluate processes once implemented and initiate support.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard
• Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries
• Interest in and working knowledge of IT and new technologies
• Able to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary interagency teams and to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information/ distressing news, understanding when they need to seek supervision or assistance
• Ability to multitask.