Job Introduction
We are looking for a registered children’s nurse to join our Childrens Community Nursing Team. If you have experience of working with children with life limiting/threatening conditions, complex health and nursing needs please get in touch. The successful candidate will join our Wiltshire CCN team based at Derby Court in Trowbridge.
The CCN team provide CCN support for any eligible children who have a Wiltshire GP. The service is open Monday – Friday 9-5pm, excluding bank holidays.
If you would like an informal discussion or meeting to find out more about this exciting opportunity please contact Tracy Abbott, Tracy.Abbott@hcrgcaregroup.com Hayley Holland, Hayley.Holland@hcrgcaregroup.com or Georgia Newman, Georgia.Newman@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
As a Community Children's Nurse you will:
- To be young person centred, to respect individuality, dignity, and choice and to provide a high standard of care for the child’s ultimate benefit
- Prioritise own workload balancing numerous demands ensuring effective management of day to day demands and needs of the caseload
- Provide a wide range of clinical interventions to meet the child’s clinical needs
- Utilise appropriate nursing skills with children with life limiting/life threatening conditions
- Provide practical care and sensitive support to the child and family during the end-of-life phase and following after bereavement
For a full list of job responsibilities please see the attached job description
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Current registration with the NMC
- RSCN or equivalent qualification
- Significant experience of working with children who have an oncological diagnosis
- Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines
- Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice
Package Description
As a Band 6 Community Children's Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at Derby Court Trowbridge.
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Community Children's Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Working for an organisation that has been shortlisted in the Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2023 for Best Equality and Diversity Project and Best Social Responsibility Programme. We are also delighted to have been shortlisted for the Wellbeing and Employee Engagement Award for our menopause support package, and for the Best Cost of Living Response Award for our cost of living support. The winner will be announced at the CIPP's Annual Excellence Awards on Thursday 5 October.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
