Band 5 Children's Community Nurse

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic Children's trained nurse or Nurse Associate with experience in nursing children to join our team.

The Children's Community Nursing Service is a small but well established service that provides care to children and young people who have an identified nursing need/ long term health need, supporting and empowering families to manage their child at home and in a variety of settings across Solihull.

You will be part of a multi-professional team and will require excellent communication skills. We will offer a comprehensive induction and competency programme; prior competency evidence of IV therapy, Venepuncture/ blood sampling, enteral feeding device care, tracheostomy care and Medical Devices will be considered useful.

The team regularly operates from 09.00 -18.30 hours Monday to Friday and Saturday and bank holidays 09.00 -- 13.00hrs. This post is for 37.5 hours per week routinely worked over 5 days.

Daily access to your own vehicle for managing community visits is essential.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to manage a named caseload of children under the supervision of a senior nurse and will be expected to manage your own time and use your own initiative to provide evidenced based quality care.

You will assess and plan the care needs of children/young people and their families in the home, their school and other community settings. Your assessment and interventions will take into consideration the immediate and long term physical, psychological and social impact of diagnosis and treatment and identify the impact of this on a child/young person's development.

You will have good knowledge and experience of working within Safeguarding procedures and will be expected to attend/ support the team to attend Multidisciplinary team meetings and Safeguarding meetings. As a member of this team you will be supported with regular clinical supervision, appraisal and relevant team meetings.

A flexible working approach and an enthusiasm for long term, complex, palliative and end of life care is essential.

The role will entail teaching and sharing information with parents, carers, students and other professionals and experience in teaching others would be valuable.

If you have the relevant experience or are interested in widening your experience, would like to join a small, friendly and proactive team and are committed to improving the outcomes for children and their families then please apply.

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