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Job overview

Band 5 - Children's Community Nurse - fixed term 10 months (to cover maternity leave)

The Children’s Community Nursing Team is integral to the Ambulatory Model that is offered and delivered within the Tameside and Glossop locality.  The team accepts direct referrals from the emergency department, children’s observation and assessment unit, children’s ward and local GP’s working hard to facilitate early discharge from hospital in addition to providing a rapid response service to prevent unnecessary hospital attendance/admission.   

The Children’s Community Nursing Team  provides nurse-led clinics to ensure that children and young people  with non-acute conditions receive a service that is close to home. 

You must be a registered children’s nurse and have extensive clinical knowledge and skills in caring for children and young people with a variety of needs in acute services to enable you to practice autonomously and use your clinical decision making skills.  

Experience of working within the community setting is desirable. You should have excellent inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to demonstrate sound theoretical evidence based knowledge.

You should be committed to the delivery of high standards of care, and have the ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The role includes a large amount of lone working and as such we have robust policies in place to safeguard individual Children’s Community Nurses.  

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic individual to join our Children’s Community Nursing Team.

You will be working within an established and experienced team and will be involved in the provision of and support the delivery of skilled paediatric care to children and young people with acute/long term conditions and palliative/end of life care.  

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. 

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: 

• Safety 
• Care 
• Respect 
• Communication 
• Learning 

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. 

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people. 

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.