Community Children's Staff Nurse

Are you a Qualified paediatric nurse interested in gaining experience in a Community Children's nursing Band 6 Role?, An exciting opportunity a permanent post in the Community Children's Nursing Service, based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic Children's Nurse, who is passionate about providing high quality care to Children /Young people in the community setting . You will ideally have 2 years post graduate general paediatric experience . Car owner and driver essential. Epsom and St Helier children's services have been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good' as well as being given great feedback from the London Healthy Partnership peer review. Queen Mary's Hospital for Children is based at the St Helier site. Children are seen in the dedicated Paediatric A&E which sits alongside the adult ED; Outpatient clinics, Ward and assessment unit. We recognise that our team members are our greatest asset - it's their hard work and effort that really makes a difference. That's why we encourage our staff to fulfil their full potential. We'll do everything we can to support you, along with offering excellent learning and development opportunities., With support from Senior CCN Service members you will :

• Support the transition of Children and Young people from Hospital to home.
• Provide specialist knowledge to meet the diverse range of needs of patients and their families in a variety of community and hospital settings, acting as a resource of paediatric expertise and providing advice to other professionals, promoting evidence based practice.
• You will hold a clinical caseload within your scope of competency
• You will haveresponsibilityfor the ongoing assessment,care planning, implementation and evaluation of outcomes of specialised nursing care in partnership withchildren, young people, their families.
• Work in partnership with the wider Multi disiplinary team.
• Safeguarding
• Documentation as per NMC
• Main Clinical responsibilities will be ; Medicines management, blood sampling and administration of medications IV , IM , S/C and CVAD'S. Wound management, and Care of Children and young people with Complex health needs.
• Effective Team Player with abilityto work autonomously in patients homes. Working collaboratively with Children /Young people/ their families and multidisciplinary teams
  
  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve. The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.