Job overview

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 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. 

This is a post suitable for a Children’s  Nurse who should have an interest in or a willingness to develop and extend specialised skills and knowledge within a community setting.

Evening and weekend shifts will be required on a pro rata basis.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring the Community Children’s Nursing and Hospital at Home Service (0-19 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.
• To work as part of the team providing nursing assessments and interventions to children.
• To work in partnership with children and families to implement individualised care plans to meet medical and nursing needs.
• To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual children’s care plans.
• To refer children to acute and other services as appropriate and required.
• To work collaboratively with other agencies to deliver clinical care pathways for children and families.
• To work as part of the Community Children’s Nursing Team to provide support in an  area of special interest from acute to community settings
• To provide support with specialist training to meet the child’s needs. This may be to the child, their family or other professional working with the child in a variety of community settings.
• To attend specialist clinics with families to work towards multi professional assessment and care planning with the child and family.  To work as part of a Multidisciplinary team to ensure a smooth discharge from acute care to community settings as well as smooth transitions into Adult Services
• To participate in CAF/TAC, becoming a key worker for families where appropriate

Working for our organisation

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:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care