Job summaryWe are looking to appoint 2 highly skilled, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Senior Community Children's Nurses to our Community Children's Nursing (CCN) team.Our established, passionate, and dedicated CCN team work collaboratively with children, young people, families, and the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is provided as close to home as possible. We provide high quality and holistic, family centred care to children and young people (CYP) with a nursing need across the Southampton and west Hampshire area including those with.*Acute and short-term conditions*Long term conditions*Disabilities, complex conditions, those requiring continuing care and neonates.*Life-limiting and life-threatening illness, including those requiring palliative and end of life care.We are looking to recruit 2 Registered Children's Nurses who have undertaken or willing to undertake a Specialist Practitioner qualification in CCN. The candidate will ideally have community experience and confidence in managing a caseload. As a Senior CCN you will have the opportunity to shape and lead our responsive service as it continually adapts to the ever-changing needs of the families. Having a key role in leading care plans, training, and multi-disciplinary liaison for CYP with a range of needs within their home, school, and wider community.Main duties of the jobManage a caseload. Provide specialised, high quality skilled nursing care, considering the physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs of the child with nursing care needs. This will include those with complex health care needs, palliative care needs, life-limiting illnesses and children dependant on technology (and those requiring short term support). This requires developing, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes of care.Support the management of the integrated acute and community care pathways for children with short term conditionsProvide supervision and monitoring of junior staff with support of team leader.Work with families to provide emotional support and specialist clinical care, sensitive to the changing and on-going needs of the child, siblings, parents and other carers.Teach families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enables them to feel confident and competent in caring for the child.Participate in the administration of medicines including intravenous therapy and cytotoxic drugs, in partnership with pharmacy colleagues. Be aware of current drugs/therapies in the treatment of pain and other symptoms. This requires specialist knowledge of children's palliative care issues and symptom management.About usMake a difference with usIf you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to accessTo be a caring, flexible and supportive place to workTo deliver the best value for moneyOur shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.Job descriptionJob responsibilities*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*Person SpecificationQualificationsEssentialBSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMCPost registration, specialist training relevant to specialityCCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification or willingness to complete within 2 years of being appointedTeaching Qualification, e.g. Mentorship/ENB 998 or equivalentPractice assessor/supervisorExperienceEssentialExperienced in assessing and developing patient care plansExperienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patientsExperience of MDT workingExperience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and studentsEvidence of recent CPDEvidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resourcesAdditional CriteriaEssentialClinically competent at Band 6 levelExcellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understandingAbility to work autonomously; prioritise workload, instruct and direct others, work is managed rather than supervised; works within clear code of practiceProblem solving skillsAdvocacy skillsTeaching, supervision and assessing skillsDexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound managementAssess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing /evaluating patients' conditionsAbility to work as part of a team and support development of othersThere is a frequent requirement for physical effort manoeuvring patient and moving equipmentFrequent need to deal with managing emotional issuesAbility to adapt to change within work situationThere is a frequent requirement to manage unpleasant working conditions i.e. body fluidsUnderstanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotionUnderstanding of a range of clinical approachesAwareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical areaArticulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issuesKnowledge of health promotionDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameSolent NHS TrustAddressAdelaide Health Centre, Western Community CentreWilliam Macleod WaySouthamptonHampshireSO16 4XEEmployer's websitehttps://www.solent.nhs.uk/join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)