Community Childrens Nurse

The Children's Community Nursing Team provides clinical nursing care, training and support to children, young people (aged 0-19) and their carer's at home or other community settings, enabling them to remain safely in the community and transition to adult services where appropriate.

Are you a highly motivated children's nurse with a with a proactive and dynamic approach to meet the needs of our children and their families? If so then submit an application! An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly and progressive community children's nursing team for full time post as a band 6 nurse. The post sits in a well-established friendly CCN team that delivers acute, ambulatory and chronic, complex care providing a 7 day service to children and their families living in Hillingdon Borough. You will be required to work 1:4 weekends and some bank holidays. This challenging and rewarding role offers the opportunity to meet the needs of children, young people and their families within a multidisciplinary inter agency framework. We are looking for an enthusiastic forward-thinking children's nurse, community experience would be an advantage but not essential. You will be a highly motivated independent practitioner with sound evidence based skills. The post holder will manage a varied caseload, act as a resource for an identified area of clinical special interest and contribute to the on-going development of the CCN team.

Hillingdon is the second largest borough in London, located 14 miles from the centre, home to Heathrow Airport. Hillingdon is also where town and country meet boasting 800 acres of woodland, country parks, fields and farms, several rivers and the Grand Union Canal., Our team look after the following children and young people in the community:

• Children with acute and short-term conditions
• Children with long term conditions
• Children with disabilities and complex conditions, including neonates
• Children with life-limiting and life-threatening illness, including palliative and end-of-life-care, CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation.
You will be part of the Children's Community Nursing Team (CCNT) in Hillingdon, working closely with the children's nurses, school staff, other allied health professionals and medical staff at Hillingdon Hospital as well as the specialist dietitian.. You will also be part of a wider peer supervision group of children's nurses to support evidence based practice and innovation. We are a flexible and friendly team, who are keen to provide you the working environment for you to thrive and progress in


• clinical supervision, regular appraisal and support in achieving your personal development plan as well as peer support from colleagues in similar roles
• Buy & Sell Annual Leave
• an attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants; ill health retirement benefits; and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
• Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust Benefits: You can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries, and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks.