This is an exciting opportunity to join the East of England Cleft Lip and Palate service and the Pediatric Plastic Surgery Team!

We provide Antenatal counselling, feeding support, pre and post-operative care for children born with a cleft or following plastic surgery. Many of our more complex infants will be managed on our Neonatal Unit or Children's Ward following their birth.

We work closely with our ENT, Respiratory and SLT colleagues to provide a comprehensive and holistic plan of care. We are looking for a motivated, organised and autonomous practitioner to support both our Cleft Nurse Specialist team and our Paediatric Plastics Nurse Specialist.

This role is an exciting new opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team caring for infants, children and young people in the region.

Exemplary Clinical leadership is essential with a desire to support the ward and Clinical Nursing teams with teaching and specialist advice. Post-operative nursing skills and wound care is advantageous in this role and coordinating complex cases desirable.

We are committed to providing continuing professional development, which will be supported and encouraged.

Main duties of the job

Working alongside the Clinical Nurse specialists you will be responsible for assisting in the provision and coordination of an effective, comprehensive and integrated service.

Provision of specialist education and training for families and carers and other staff and students will be a principle role.

You will liaise with all relevant agencies within and outside the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to children, young people and families under the care of the Paediatric Plastic/Cleft team, providing guidance, support and advice.

You will play a key role in the provision of a Paediatric dressing clinic, where you will be responsible for assessing surgical wounds following trauma, plastics and cleft surgery.

You will ideally have additional skills in airway management, complex discharge planning and the high dependency infant and/or child in order to further develop your role within the Clinical Nurse Specialist team.

About us

Come Nurse with us...

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values ofTogether - Safe, Kind, Excellentsupport the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.

This vacancy will close at midnight on the 25th September 2024

Interviews are due to be held on the 4th October 2024

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registration RSCN/RN Child
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Teaching or Mentoring qualification
• Post registration qualification in relevant speciality

Desirable

• Degree
• Counselling qualification

Experience

Essential

• Working with acutely and chronically ill children and young people
• Relevant experience of children's nursing in secondary care
• Evidence of commitment to formal and informal teaching and to mentorship of students/colleagues
• Experience of managing/supporting complex discharges

Desirable

• Paediatric ED and/or recovery nursing experience
• Experience of wound care
• Experience of caseload/shift management/coordination

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Understanding and knowledge of specialist field

Desirable

• Experience in developing care pathways and patient information
• /qualification in relevant field

Skills

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of and committed to working as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Well-developed organisational and planning ability, able to prioritise clinical caseload
• Ability to deliver expert nursing care to children and families
• Good presentation skills

Desirable

• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries

Additional Requirements

Essential

• The ability to understand and behave at all times towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind and excellent
• Ability to get on with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation and external agencies
• Committed to providing a high standard of clinical care
• To work flexibly as the role/Children's Services demands

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E

Hills Road

Cambridge

CB2 0QQ

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