Our Solihull Children's Community Nursing service is based at Friars Gate, one of UHB Trusts Solihull Community sites. We have an established Children's Nursing service that offers care and support to children and young people with complex and palliative care needs. This service is integrated with the Solihull Children's Community Learning Disability Nursing Team and Solihull Special School Nursing Team and has a close working relationship with Solihull Community Paediatrics medical and therapy Services.

We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate children's nurses to support with the co-ordination, provision and progression of this service. We are part of a multi-professional team and pride ourselves in the positive outcomes we support children and young people to achieve. A flexible working approach is essential in supporting our children and their families.

Our team also provides home based End Of Life Care to children and young people in Solihull including a 24 hour support rota to meet the changing needs of the child and family.

The team regularly operates from 09.00 -- 18:30 hours Monday to Friday, and Saturday and Bank Holidays (excluding Christmas Day) 09.00 -- 13.00 hours.

Applicants must hold a full current UK driving licence and have regular access to their own car for community visits.

Main duties of the job

Our successful candidates will be Registered Children's Nurses with min 2 years post registration community / complex needs experience. Excellent communication skills are essential applicants should be committed to delivering high quality care to children at home, school and in community settings. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential an ability to manage your own time, own caseload and to support junior colleagues with supervision, appraisal and revalidation. This role requires a candidate who is confident and enthusiastic about supporting children with complex and palliative needs to maximise their potential and who can confidently and enthusiastically engage with and support parents. You will contribute to Children's Continuing Care Assessments, Safeguarding meetings, teaching, competency training, staff support and team management. It includes clinical interventions and skill based competencies. You will participate in palliative, end of life care including contribution to a 24 hour on call rota. Experience with children with palliative care needs including Advanced Care Planning is essential as is knowledge of end of life care processes experience in delivering end of life care support is desirable. Your role as care co-ordinator will involve triage and appropriate allocation of referrals and clinical caseload supervision with junior members of the team. (1403)

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

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Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * Teaching and assessing qualification eg. SLAIP, ENB 998.
• * Registered Sick Children's Nurse or Registered Nurse Child Branch.

Experience

Essential

• * 3 years post registration.
• * 2 years recent experience community/acute setting.
• * Experience and evidence in implementing change.
• * Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality patient care.
• * Experience of multidisciplinary working.
• * Has an understanding of safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults.
• * Experience of working with children who have palliative care needs.
• * Experience of providing nursing care to children with complex needs.
• * Knowledge of audit and research Management/ leadership experience.
• * Teaching/presentation experience.
• * Good computer skills.
• * Experience of supervising others or Mentoring.
• * Awareness of the function and skill needed of Lead Professional Role.
• * Knowledge of clinical and governance.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Community Nursing

Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4BN

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