Whittington Health NHS Trust has a ground-breaking, friendly, and highly regarded Paediatric Primary Care (PPC) Team delivering care for Children in the community of Islington. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, passionate, and highly motivated paediatric nurse, to join the paediatric community team at The Whittington Health NHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a forward-thinking team of experienced nurses, with extensive opportunities to enhance and develop competences and skill set when providing patient care in autonomous nurse led clinics. The post holder will be a highly visible senior nurse and as such expected to provide specialist knowledge, advice/support, and clinical expertise to the Islington primary care staff regarding CYP., Working as a team player, your role will require excellent physical assessment skills, partnership working and a strong commitment towards achieving the outcomes to improve the health and wellbeing of this patient group. You will be expected to demonstrate clinical expertise and governance in all aspects of your work, being supported by robust organisational supervision, guidelines, and policies.
Facilitate independent nurse led clinics for the conditions specified.
Manage these conditions confidently with an aim to gain optimum control and discharge back to the care of the GP or if this is not possible refer up to secondary care for further intervention and support.
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for children and young people with long term conditions.
Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner in primary care, providing teaching and upskill staff within GP practices and health centres.

Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work., The Paediatric Primary Care Service is commissioned by Islington CCG, and works collaboratively with stakeholders including GP practices, the children's community nursing team, secondary care departments, tertiary care and the commissioning team with an aim to educate, support and empower families to better manage their chronic long- term conditions in the community.
The Paediatric Primary Care service is provided to children and young people aged 3 months - 18 years, living in the London Borough of Islington who present with wheeze, asthma, and eczema. One of the service aims to reduce hospital admissions where possible and prevent re-admission.
The post holder will help to drive an innovative service which involves facilitating nurse led clinics within either GP practices or Health Centre's for the conditions listed, this will be in both face to face and virtual formats. The paediatric primary care team engage effectively with both primary, secondary and tertiary care provisions as patients can move between providers. Patients can be referred into the service via their GP or practice nurse, community nursing team, Health visitors or as part of a step-down process initiated by secondary care to support patients with their agreed management plan.
The post holder will be expected to confidently complete history taking, perform physical examination, initiate effective treatment and care planning, with routine follow up to ensure patients are responding to treatment and to assure compliance to treatment. The post holder will ensure that effective communication with GP's are maintained when requesting prescriptions and work within the CCG's medicine managements guidance.
The post holder will support the team leader, community matron and assistant director of children's and family Services to embed and develop the Paediatric Primary Care service.
The post holder will be supported by an integrated team approach with Practice Nurses and encouraged to develop their skills to provide effective care.
The post holder will contribute towards service development to encourage and support management of chronic illness within primary care to aim to minimise hospital attendance, admissions, and re-admissions.
The post holder will be expected to act as a visible role model and expert practitioner in paediatric primary care and will be expected to ensure the provision of high quality safe and effective holistic care to all children and young people.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
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.
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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