Senior Community Children's Nurse

The CCN/HAH is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To 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.

This is a post suitable for a Children's Community Nurse who should have experience of working within a Community Children's Nursing Team.

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.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 is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Qualifications

Essential: - RSCN or RN (child) Diploma / degree level.; - Evidence of significant professional development in children's nursing.; - Current NMC registration

Desirable: - Practice Assessors qualification

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of relevant clinical competence; - Experience in teaching other staff and carers and assessing their competencies

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge