Children and Young People's Community Nurse | Community NHS Foundation Trust

Children and Young People s Community Nurse | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Currently the service provides community nursing for children and young people with acute andlong term conditions, complex needs, and palliative care, including end of life care. The children and young people can present with acute illness in addition to requiring skilled nursing intervention to manage highly complex health and developmental needs throughout childhood and at transition to adult services.

The CYPCNS works closely with social care, education and third sector organisations to implement the statutory requirements of the Children and Families Act 2014, and we are actively involved with partners in developing children and young people’s urgent care pathways. Our CYPCNS offers innovation, partnership and excellence in community care and we are highly committed to active ongoing engagement with children and families to shape and improve services.

We aspire to be what children, families and our partners need us to be to enable the very best health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people in West Sussex and Brighton and Hove.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to join our well-established CYPCN team as a Band 6 Children and Young People s Community Nurse. This post will be based in Chichester at the Westhampnett Centre.

This is a challenging but highly rewarding role, and the post holder will be supporting the Team Lead with caseload and local service management.

• Manage the delivery of quality nursing care, support, information and advice, for a delegated CCNT caseload, helping to ensure that appropriate resources are available to assist in providing this care.
• Support and educate staff offering clinical specialist knowledge and skills for the delivery of nursing care for children in the CCNT caseload.
• Maintain excellent communication channels with service stakeholders.
• Multi-disciplinary team working and liaison
• Help develop, implement and review clinical protocols and standard operating procedures which assist in delivering safe care and best nursing practice.
• Develop clinical skills and knowledge within the team, ensuring the relevant clinical skills required for management of safe nursing care are maintained.
• Provide teaching regarding the use of equipment and treatment regimes in the community for children, families/carers and staff involved.
• Act as a resource and role model of children’s community nursing specialist practice to all other professionals and work colleagues.
• Attend essential and relevant clinical practice updates in tertiary centres and special interest groups both within the Trust, locally and nationally to help develop and contribute towards establishment of clinical practice standards.
• Support the Team Lead with caseload and staff management.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support

• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients  homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county

• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options

• Excellent training and development opportunities

• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton

• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks

• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces

• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)

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