Job summaryAre you a passionate Children's Nurse looking to expand your skills and make a real difference to children, young people and families in their own homes and communities?
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated
Band 6 Community Children's Nurse to join our dedicated Community Children's Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a highly skilled multidisciplinary service supporting children and young people with complex health needs, long-term conditions, disabilities, palliative care and end of life care requirements across Birmingham.
As a Community Children's Nurse, you will have the privilege of building meaningful relationships with children and families, delivering holistic, family-centred care and enabling children to receive care in the place that is right for them. You'll play a key role in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, supporting hospital discharge and helping children achieve the best possible quality of life.
Please get in touch with the Team Leader - Rebecca Carless on 07784 007 462 or rebecca.carless@nhs.net or Team Leader Deborah Edoko on 07711915999 or d.edoko@nhs.net
Main duties of the jobThe Band 6 Community Children's Nurse will provide high quality, evidence based care to children and young people with acute, complex and long term health needs in their homes and community settings. The post holder will undertake holistic assessments, develop and evaluate care plans, and ensure safe, effective and family centred care.
Managing a delegated caseload, the post holder will work collaboratively with children, families, schools, GPs, hospital teams and partner agencies to coordinate care, support hospital avoidance and facilitate timely discharge from acute services.
The role includes supporting children and young people with complex healthcare needs, life limiting conditions and palliative care requirements, helping families to manage care safely within the community. The post holder will contribute to the delivery of specialist palliative and end of life care, including participation in the out of hours on-call service.
As a senior member of the team, the post holder will provide clinical leadership, support colleagues and students, contribute to service development and quality improvement, and maintain high standards of safeguarding, clinical governance and record keeping. They will also provide education and support to families and carers, promoting independence and improving outcomes for children and young people across Birmingham.
About usBe Part of Our Team...Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Job responsibilities- Work in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Practice and Scope of Professional Practice. Professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all activities.
- Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings.
- Ensure assessment, planning and delivery of holistic care is of the highest standard utilising an agreed nursing model.
- Work in partnership with children, families and carers to provide optimum individual outcome acknowledging children and familys personal preferences and lifestyles.
- Liaise and work in collaboration with acute services, primary healthcare team and other agencies when planning and implementing programmes of care.
- Provide the clinical lead in care packages funded by the Community Complex Care team when allocated to the Community Childrens Nursing (CCN) caseload.
- Provide health education information to the child/young person, family and carers to promote a healthy lifestyle through health promotion activities as required.
- Plan and participate in teaching packages to families and carers to ensure evidenced based care is delivered.
- Advise the Team Leader, Clinical Lead or Service Manager of any circumstances which give cause for concern in relation to patient care and/or any concerns raised by the primary healthcare team or partner agencies.
- Undertake home visits to children registered with GPs within Birmingham as required.
- Undertake home visit risk assessments to ensure safety during visits especially those during unsociable hours.
- Obtain informed consent from Children, Parents and Carers prior to undertaking care.
- Maintain clear, concise and contemporaneous records adhering to BCHC record keeping policies.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for nursing practice and all activities.
- Provide a flexible service to accommodate the working environment.
Person SpecificationQualifications / TrainingEssential- RSCN/RN Child Branch, Adult, Learning Disabilities
- ENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalent
Desirable- Children's Palliative Care experience
- Community Children's Nursing qualification or equivalent
- Independent supplementary prescriber or equivalent
ExperienceEssential- Significant experience of working as a Children's Nurse either RSCN/RN Child
Desirable- Experience of working with children with life limiting/ threatening illnesses and end of life
Skills/KnowledgeEssential- Ability to manage team on a day to day basis in the absence of the Team Leader
- Demonstrate knowledge relating to child protection issues and procedures
- Evidence of assessment skills and use of nursing process and nurse models
- Demonstrate sound use and application of NMC Code of Conduct and scope of professional care
- Demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes affecting NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting community care
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of current clinical trends and practices inclusive of evidence based practice in relation to Children's Community Nursing ability to teach relatives, patients, clients and staff across all areas of self care and appropriate nursing practice
- Demonstrate knowledge of standard setting and audit processes
- Demonstrate individual responsibility in respect to health and safety
- Ability to demonstrate written skills that are concise, accurate, relevant and legible
- Awareness of diversity of the needs of families in relation to culture and religion
- Provide evidence of time and resource management
- Excellent communication skills
Personal QualitiesEssential- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working
- Demonstrate ability to be flexible and participate in an NHS change environment
- Ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
- Positive attitude to service development and Children's Community Nursing and Palliative Care
Other job requirementsEssential- Access to independent means of transport
- Ability to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.Applicants must have current UK professional registration. 
