Nurse Specialist for Children and Young People's Continuing Care

Lewisham & Greenwich Children's Community Nursing Service seeks to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking paediatric nurse to become our Nurse Specialist in Children and Young People's Continuing Care. The successful candidate will work across our varied population. You need to be able to work autonomously and collaboratively within a multi-agency environment and dynamic skill-mixed team., This role will act as a Specialist and Coordinator for the Continuing Care of Children and Young People, with life limiting/life threatening conditions, Complex Need's/Disabilities. This role will work in partnership with the Community Children's Nursing Team, Complex Need's Nursing Team, and members of health and social care. The post holder will ensure the provision of continuous care packages for children with complex needs are regularly reviewed and assessed and are integrated within mainstream services. The post holder will collaborate with other disciplines, statutory and voluntary agencies, children, and family users. To provide management and specialist support to ensure a high standard of integrated child and family-centred care., Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations: 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development 2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability 3. Improving the experience of staff with disability 4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development 5. Making equalities mainstream, All the following are to be carried out while working in close collaboration with members of the multi-disciplinary team. To demonstrate clinical expertise within the speciality and work autonomously, managing own allocated workload independently and seeking guidance/support when necessary.

• To co-ordinate the specialty care within the Trust/ICB
• To become an essential member, and point of contact and resource for the multi-disciplinary team and patients and carers.
• To demonstrate the ability to develop new skills, to provide an expert high quality, nurse-led service service.
• To provide ongoing follow-up care and support (home visits / telephone support / nurse
• To develop the service in a structured interdisciplinary way, initiating on-going change and progression in the expanding role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist
• To develop interdisciplinary clinical management protocols and work within them.
• Autonomously or in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, manage the care of patients carrying out relevant interventions, within agreed clinical protocols and in line with current practice/trends.
• To offer a supportive service to patients and their carers, disseminating specialist knowledge enabling individuals to try and adapt to any changes to their body image and life experiences. Liaising with other healthcare professionals when necessary.
• To provide, promote and maintain a support and advice service to patients and their carers, to include provision of information giving from diagnosis through to all stages of the disease process, in liaison with relevant healthcare professionals.
• To maintain accurate and legible records of all clinical and legal documentation with regard to Statutory and Trust policies.
• To assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care within the acute and community setting
• Be aware of, understand, and act upon the Divisional Business Plan, with reference to nursing care, to participate in the re-formulation of nursing aspects of the plan.
• When required, investigate the nursing aspects of incidents/complaints and initiate corrective action.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview. As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce. Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

If you are a self-motivated and collaborative professional who possesses excellent communication skills, an eye for detail, and supports the philosophy of delivering high-quality services to people, this would be the ideal opportunity for you.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most. Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities. To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission. Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments. LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country. We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.