Job Introduction
Children's Community Senior Staff Nurse
You will join a friendly and experienced team who work closely together, support each other and share learning. You will have access to excellent training, a flexible-first working approach and a culture where your ideas are welcomed and respected.
You will also have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 NHS Agenda for Change salary with an NHS pension
- Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies
- Online and in-person wellbeing support including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
- Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and development through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold Good or Outstanding CQC ratings
Are you an experienced and compassionate children’s nurse who wants to make a bigger impact in the community?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Staff Nurse to join our Community Children’s Nursing Team in Surrey. You will be part of a friendly, skilled and supportive service that cares for children and young people aged 0 to 18 in the places they feel safest.
This includes their homes, schools and nursery settings. Every child’s situation is unique, and you will play a key part in supporting families at some of the most important moments in their lives. In this senior role, you will use your clinical expertise to deliver complex care, manage your own caseload and work independently across the community.
You will also support the Clinical Team Leader, guide junior staff and help shape the ongoing development of our service.
Main Responsibilities
- You will provide high-quality, evidence-based nursing care for children and young people in homes, schools and nurseries across Surrey.
- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate complex care packages, including end of life care.
- Maintain advanced clinical skills in areas such as central line care, tracheostomy care, enteral feeding, ventilation and specialist infusions.
- Act as a mentor and role model for Band 5 colleagues, provide supervision, support their development and help create a positive team culture.
- Deputise for the Clinical Team Leader, assist with planning and coordinating the service and take part in weekend and 24-hour end of life rotas.
- Contribute to audits, service evaluation and improvement work, helping ensure safe, responsive and efficient care.
- Support training, share skills with colleagues and partner organisations and help develop systems that improve the way we work.
- Communicate clearly and sensitively with children, families and professionals, often sharing complex or difficult information.
- Work closely with the wider multidisciplinary team to support smooth transitions of care and safe early discharges.
- Take part in safeguarding processes, child protection meetings and discharge planning.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registered Children’s Nurse with current NMC registration
- Practice Assessor or Practice Supervisor qualification
- Significant paediatric nursing experience with evidence of leadership or staff supervision
- Strong commitment to ongoing professional development
- Good understanding of community health services and workforce challenges
- Able to manage a complex caseload independently in varied community settings
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and teamworking skills
- Confident in motivating others and managing change
- Broad clinical skillset with good knowledge of safeguarding, risk and health and safety
- Competent IT skills with effective written and verbal communication
- Able to work with families from diverse cultural and language backgrounds
Desirable
- Community Children’s Nursing qualification
- Experience in child protection or clinical supervision
- Leadership or management qualification
- Experience caring for children with tracheostomies or non-invasive ventilation
- Educated to Level 7 or equivalent through experience or training
Other requirements
- Full UK driving licence and a car insured for business use
Please see the attached Job Description for the full person specification
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
