Children's Community Band 6 Nurse- Hospital at Home

Join our dedicated team as a Paediatric Hospital at Home Nurse, where you'll play a vital role in the Community Children's Nursing Service and join the team as we expand into Camden and South Barnet. As a member of the Hospital at Home team, you'll provide expert nursing care for sick children within the familiar surroundings of their own homes. Your responsibilities include autonomous working, comprehensive assessment, precise planning, implementation, and evaluation of personalized nursing care for children under the guidance of the Band 7 Team Lead, Children's Community Matron and lead consultant.
Who are we?
We are a team of specialist nurses that provide assessment, support, and advice for unwell infants, children, and young people recovering at home.
What we do:
The hospital at home nursing team support children's recovery at home, preventing admission to hospital or allowing for early discharge from hospital. We provide specialist paediatric nursing care in the comfort of the child's home.
Who can we look after?
0-18-year-olds living within Islington, Camden and South Barnet, referred to our service by hospital clinicians for management of an acute illness. Some conditions we treat are resolving infections of IVABs, jaundice, bronchiolitis, viral induced wheeze, diarrhoea and vomiting and infant feeding support., The post holder will have a leadership role and take responsibility for case-finding, team co-ordination and organisation of referrals.
We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds including emergency nurses, ambulatory care and acute wards. It is an exciting time to join our team and be supported to enhance your scope of autonomous practice.
The service runs from 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week, throughout the year. As an integrated care organisation, there are varied opportunities for training and development plus from other specialists. The induction period provided is tailored to the post holder's needs.
If you are seeking a challenge, are passionate about patient care and interested in joining an enthusiastic, dynamic and dedicated team we would love to hear from you., To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation