Clinical senior children's nurse

Overview

The CHAHT provide high quality, family centered care to children and young people in their own homes, supporting early discharge and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. The team are based at Darent Valley Hospital and operates 7 days a week including bank holidays from 8am-10pm. We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and innovative lead nurse to join our Paediatric Service to work as part of our senior nursing team.

This service supports the Paediatric service, including Paediatric Emergency Department (PED), Willow ward team and Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU). This is a unique opportunity to be part of something exceptional in this patch of Kent, the Garden of England. You will be involved in the continuation of the CHAHT based  CHAHT is a dynamic team incorporating specialist nurses working alongside children's and primary care teams, evolving and offering an excellent service for children and young people within the locality, forging strong links with community and tertiary services.

Car driver with use of vehicle for business essential. The successful candidate will lead and manage the CHAHT team, providing leadership, management and clinical support to the CHAHT team, providing specialist and holistic support and care to children and young people in their own home.

We would invite you to apply if you are a motivated clinical senior children's nurse, with knowledge and experience in nursing children in the community. You will have excellent interpersonal, IT and communication skills with the ability to organise, manage and plan your own workload effectively. You will be dedicated and passionate in your role working with children and young people whilst demonstrating excellent leadership and team working.

You will be energetic and dedicated in working as an advocate in support of our young people and their families. The successful applicant will be expected to provide advice and support in relation to management of children and young people and will be expected to provide clinical advice and educational support to staff within the Trust.

• 1.1 Initiate appropriate work, accepting referrals and be able to work autonomously with the child and family in the community setting.
• 1.2 Be based from and regularly attend and liaise with acute hospital colleagues to enable timely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow-up in the community setting.
• 1.3 Recognise and monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate appropriate interventions.
• 1.4 Provide a holistic, autonomous and clinical nursing service as an expert practitioner using high levels of decision making and clinical judgement and evidence based practice.
• 1.5 Carry out initial assessments/home visits and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for all patients for whom he/she has continuing responsibility.
• 1.6 Act in partnership with the child and family when assessing a child's needs and planning. To provide advice contributing to the well-being of the patient and participate in health promotion. To provide high quality nursing care to meet agreed pathway standards of care.
• 1.7 Ensure accurate record keeping (PAS system used for client records). To create reports for specific formal meetings such as child protection case conferences. Ensure confidentiality of information is adhered to always.
• 1.8 Liaise with, and receive referrals from other disciplines and make decisions regarding client treatments/outcomes without direct supervision.
• 1.9 Carry out specialist procedures in the community settings e.g. administration of intravenous antibiotics, care of central venous access devices.
• 1.10 Use clinical judgement and expertise in assessing and implementing change during clinical visits e.g. assessment of respiratory condition and management of any changes.
• 1.11 Use clinical knowledge and expertise in deciding appropriate administration of drugs, route to be administered and dose of the drug, within a set of defined parameters prescribed by medical colleagues e.g. inhalers.
• 1.12 Undertake individual risk assessments to support children and families within their own homes.
• 1.13 Be familiar with safe manual handling practices and implement within the practice setting when both working with clients and service equipment.
• 1.14 Recognise and respond to safeguarding issues as they arise.
• 1.15 Be familiar with practices regarding the management of hazardous/biological substances and follow local policies regarding their disposal.

• 2.1 Be responsible for team members as their line manager including management of sickness absence, poor performance and recruitment and selection decisions.
• 2.2 Provide training and organise professional development plans, appraisal & clinical supervision for team members.
• 2.3 Direct, support, encourage and advise team members, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in the care of the patients.
• 2.4 Supervise & assess qualified staff members, nurse learners &…