Community Children’s Nurse, Aylesbury

We are looking for a highly motivated experienced paediatric nurse to join our Paediatric Outreach Team. The Paediatric Outreach Team cares for children and young people within their own home and primary care setting. Currently, the service provides community nursing for children and young people with acute and long-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. Our services are designed to promote excellent holistic care for the children and their families. The Paediatric Outreach Team is based within Stoke Mandeville Hospital and is part of the thriving paediatric unit, working closely with the acute ward. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to experience many specialties and get to know many of the families before visiting them in their own homes. We are looking for nurses who have community experience or experience of managing complex medical needs of children in any setting. Main duties of the job: To work effectively with sound judgement when dealing with complex emotional situations, family dynamics, and in difficult environments. To work in partnership with parents/guardians and gain informed consent. To create individual care plans for specific children, negotiating, agreeing, implementing, and evaluating with parents and other professionals. To be responsible for assessing, delivering, developing, and maintaining high standards in the quality of care in the home and clinic setting. Delivering face-to-face support and/or telephone advice. To deliver patient care including accessing central and peripheral IV lines, IV drug administration, managing and replacing enteral feeding devices, oxygen therapy, suctioning, and complex healthcare needs, wound care, and End of Life Care. Demonstrates the ability to manage time and resources effectively. Demonstrate an ability to prioritise workload and is able to show flexibility in response to urgent and/or changing needs. Through reflection and clinical support, develop strategies to improve, and where necessary change practice. Person specification: Education: Registered Children’s Nurse Teaching/Assessing Certificate or equivalent Evidence of further continued professional development Experience: Extensive and recent experience in a variety of Paediatric settings Experience of managing and leading a team as a Band 6 Senior Nurse Experience of Quality management against current National Paediatric Standards/ Children and Young People Active participation and experience of clinical governance processes Skills: Flexibility and ability to cope with different work environments PPE requirements:

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures. COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations:

remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended. If you are successful:

at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document. Application deadline:

This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the closing date.

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