Paediatric Community Nurse

• Take responsibility and accountability for the nursing management and autonomous delivery of care to a caseload of children with chronic, complex, acute and palliative care needs within the community setting.
• Act as the key health professional for children and young people and act as their advocate and co-ordinators of their care in the community.
• Provide professional, high-quality patient care to children & families in the community.
• To provide training locally to enable children and young people to manage their own medical conditions or support others in doing so to minimise restrictions on the child or young person's activities.
• Assist the Team Leader in effective care planning, implementation and evaluation of care that meets professional and clinicalstandards/ guidelines.
• Facilitate early discharge and effective aftercare within the community setting, preventing admission and readmission to hospital.
• To aspire to accommodate families wishes of where they would like to reside when a child or young person reaches end of life.

Desirable

• Community experience.
• Safeguarding experience.
• Participation in audit activity.
• Experiencing monitoring and contributes to protecting children and young people at risk.
• Acute experience.

Essential

• Demonstrates good communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work with and liaise across sites, within the MDT and other NHS trusts and professionals.
• Aware of key principles of paediatric care and implications for practice.
• Use of clinical judgement and individual decision-making regarding nursing care requirements; assesses, plans, delivers, evaluates and records care.