Children's Community Nurse

Evelina London is at the heart of a network of children’s health services in Lambeth and Southwark and across South-East England. We provide a comprehensive range of children’s health services, so that we are able to look after patients from antenatal diagnosis through childhood, into adolescence and on into adult services.

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner providing high quality specialist nursing care to children in their homes. The post holder will be responsible for facilitating early discharge, reduce length of stay and prevent hospital admissions.

Closing date: 30/03/2023

Interview date: 12/04/2023

The Children's Community Nursing Service includes the Children’s at Home, Community nursing team, Continuing Care Nurses and Complex Needs School Nurses who manage a range of childhood conditions. Children benefit from specialist hospital care closer to home.

We have a dynamic team of highly skilled nurses who facilitate early discharge of children from hospital as well as prevent hospital admissions and ED attendance.

The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area. Ensuring the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles.

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

You will need to be an autonomous practitioner, within a team, that provides high quality specialist nursing care to children in their homes and primary care settings. You will also undertake training in mainstream schools and nurseries.

There will be the opportunity to rotate within our wider CCNS team as the service is constantly evolving. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and build a comprehensive children’s nursing service for the local children, young people, and families of Lambeth and Southwark.

Clinical and Patient Care
Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst
working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialised
individualised and personalised direct patient care.

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action.

Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment,
planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes
history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed
diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.

Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
including transfusion of blood and blood products, to ensure safe custody
of medications in the home setting.

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action.

Act as an advocate for patients, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient
experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and
doctrines.

Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and
wellbeing of the individuals.

Recognise and monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate
appropriate nursing interventions.

To carry our specialist procedures in the community settings eg
administration of intravenous antibiotics, care of central venous access
devices and changing of naso gastric tubes.

Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of
professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain
and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.

Please see attached Job description document for full details.