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Children and Young People’s Community Nurse

Employer
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Brighton
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata
Closing date
7 Jun 2023

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Sector
Healthcare, Nursing
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Band 6

Job summary

We have an opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to join our well-established CYPCN service in Brighton as a Band 6 Children and Young People's Community Nurse.

Currently the service provides community nursing for children and young people with acute and long term conditions, complex needs, and palliative care, including end of life care. The children and young people can present with acute illness in addition to requiring skilled nursing intervention to manage highly complex health and developmental needs throughout childhood and at transition to adult services.

The Children and Young Peoples community nursing services provides care within the child's home, their community and within the local special schools.

Main duties of the job
  • Manage the delivery of quality nursing care, support, information and advice, for a delegated Children's Community Nursing Team (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 and Special School Nurse (SSN) 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/ Special school 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 and Clinical Lead with caseload and staff management.

About us

The Children and Young Peoples Community Nursing Service (CYPCNS) works closely with social care, education and third sector organisations to implement the statutory requirements of the Children and Families Act 2014, and we are actively involved with partners in developing children and young people's urgent care pathways. Our CYPCNS offers innovation, partnership and excellence in community care and we are highly committed to active ongoing engagement with children and families to shape and improve services. We aspire to be what children, families and our partners need us to be to enable the very best health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people in West Sussex and Brighton and Hove.

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is the lead provider of Children and Young People's Community Nursing Services (CYPCNS) across West Sussex and Brighton and Hove.

The CYPCNS is made up of four teams in Chichester, Lancing, Crawley and Brighton and Hove, along with a Specialist Children's Continence team, and a Special School Nursing team. Professional, operational and strategic leadership is provided through the General Manager of Children and Young People's Community Nursing, with additional leadership for quality and standards provided through the Children and Young People's Community Nursing Matrons.

The CYPCNS work across a 7 day week, 365 days of the year. This can include 24 hour on-call rota for named children at end of life.

Company

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) offers diverse employment opportunities across Sussex.

We employ over 8,400 full time, part time and bank staff, and our expert teams deliver a wide range of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to over 10,000 people a day, serving a total population of 1.3 million.

Why join our #CommunityThatCares at SCFT?

  • Flexible working patterns offered across our services
  • Ongoing training and development tailored to your needs
  • Excellent research opportunities
  • BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks 
  • Level 3 Disability Confident Leader
  • Free health and wellbeing checks for all staff
  • Workplace nurseries rated Good and Outstanding by Ofsted

SCFT is an inclusive employer that promotes equality and challenges discrimination, and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, disabled candidates and LGBT+ candidates are particularly encouraged, to ensure the Trust’s workforce reflects the diverse communities it serves.

Contact our friendly Recruitment team on 01273 242227 or sc-tr.recruitment@nhs.net.

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Company info
Website
Telephone
01273 696011
Location
Glynde Building
Brighton General Hospital
Elm Grove
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 3EW
GB

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