Senior Practitioner Children's Continuing Care

An exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join the complex care team.
The Complex Care team are looking for an enthusiastic registered nurse, with a strong clinical background with supporting children with complex health care needs to join our team. The successful candidate will need to have a passion for working with children and their families, whilst helping to promote independence and wellbeing for children and young people with Complex Care needs.
Each day working in the complex care team is different, and our team members are always looking for ways to overcome the issues that we face, so the successful candidate must enjoy a challenge, be a dynamic thinker and problem solver.
The successful candidate will be part of the clinical team, working independently managing their own case load and collaboratively with other key professionals whilst ensuring that they fulfil the ethos of looking after the whole child. They will have an opportunity to build cross agency relationships, whilst working closely with colleagues from Social care and Special Education Needs.
Working closely with our admin team the successful candidate will plan and coordinate their own MDT meetings, including support the arrangement of emergency provision for children who are fast tracked to the team due to needing end of life care or experiencing mental health crisis.
The successful candidate will complete assessments as part of the CCG delivery of the NHS Continuing Care framework, + To establish and monitor appropriate health care packages for children with continuing care needs
+ To use the Assess, Plan, Implement and Review model in conjunction with the child and family and other involved professionals, creating plans of care and protocols relevant to each child.
+ To participate in the negotiation of service level agreements with external providers.
+ To ensure that agencies contracted to deliver nursing care are maintaining their responsibility and adhering to agreed protocols.
+ Monitor agencies delivering care are meeting Key Performance Indicators and provide regular reports to the CCG.
+ To maintain up to date accurate records, provide written reports as needed and complete statistical returns as required.
+ To act in accordance with Trust policies in relation to Child Protection issues.
+ To manage risk and incidents, seeking advice and support managerially or clinically as appropriate.
+ To attend training courses as required and extend knowledge and skills in line with service requirements to maintain your NMC registration and revalidation.
+ To be aware of and act in accordance with agreed policy, procedures, legislation and NMC standards.
+ To work in partnership with social care and education teams, ensuring that holistic needs are met for children and families.
+ To undertake other duties and tasks as requested by the Community Matron for Children's Complex and Continuing Care
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+ To meet regularly with the Community Matron to discuss, plan and co-ordinate service development in area of responsibility.
+ To lead and/or participate in professional development/training as identified by clinicians or national directives.
+ To foster and develop effective working relationships within the service.
+ To contribute to the identification of the health needs of sick children and bring unmet needs to the attention of the Community Matron for Children's Complex and Continuing Care.
+ To ensure financial transactions are carried out in accordance with the Trust's instruction.
+ To participate in the negotiation of service level agreements.
+ To contribute to clinical audit and encourage research based practice.
+ To participate in the recruitment, selection and appointment of nursing staff where appropriate.
+ To work collaboratively with Disabled Children's Teams and CCG to ensure effective information sharing and planning respite or additional support/nursing care at home, ensuring an equitable service is offered to families.
+ To develop policies and guidelines for this clinical area ensuring they are communicated and evaluated to ensure a dynamic, safe and responsive environment for the child and family.
+ To facilitate transition to adult services when appropriate.
+ To monitor the stock of consumables, being mindful of the changing equipment needs of the client group
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.
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