Senior Children's Community Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

The Community Children’s nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To work within Special Schools, paediatric continence clinics and continuing care packages.

The Community Children’s nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children in with a nursing need in the special school environment as well as their own homes or community settings.

The successful candidate should be to provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: acute and long-term conditions, children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care. To provide clear visible leadership and professional clinical expertise to the Band 5 Children’s Community Nurses in the whole team to ensure every aspect of the child and families experience is delivered in a safe, efficient, and evidence-based manner.

To manage a caseload of children and young people autonomously, support junior staff members within the team, lead on improvement projects, lead on audits, work in various community settings, and supporting children and young people across the paediatric continence service, children's continuing care, special school nursing and children's community nursing.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

This is a post suitable for a Children’s Community Nurse (Paediatric or Learning Disability Registered Nurse) who should have an interest in or a willingness to develop and extend specialised skills and knowledge.

Key Task and Responsibilities

To ensure the Specialist Children’s Nursing Service (0-19 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.

To identify new theories, policies and guidelines relating to an area of interest and children’s nursing, disseminating research findings and developing local policies and standards accordingly.

To take the lead role in developing and implementing a seamless transition of programmes to support early hospital discharge and continuity of care for children and their family.

To provide professional and clinical leadership to children’s community nursing staff, ensuring that they are engaged with and adhering to local policies, guidelines and expectations.

To assess nursing…