Hospital @ Home Nurse

Job summary
Are you an acute children's nurse who's looking to branch out into community nursing? Or a Children's Community nurse looking for more acute focussed nursing care at home?

The Royal London Children's Hospital is looking to recruit or second a band 6 children's nurse to cover maternity leave to support delivery of the innovative and exciting hospital @ home service commissioned by Tower Hamlets CCG. The team visit acutely unwell children in the community to offer treatment preventing them from attending hospital and/or staying in longer than needed. The H@H team forms part of the Pan London H@H forum with its additional support and links that helps to provide a cohesive and high quality service to the children of Tower Hamlets.

The successful candidate will have excellent team working and decision making skills and put their patients first. We are looking for experienced and highly skilled children's nurses who can work autonomously to care for acutely unwell children at home. Bart's health has a wealth of learning and career development opportunities that will support you in your career aspirations.

Will you take the leap?

Main duties of the job

• To facilitate efficient and effective patient flow from attendance to hospital to referral home, helping to ensure that we meet the 4 hour wait target in the emergency department.
• To perform highly skilled acute nursing care and assessment for children at home
• To work closely with the ward managers, paediatricians, matrons and flow team on a daily basis to expedite referrals home
• To act as an excellent role model and leader to all staff
• To participate in the development of new pathways of care
• To support the evaluation of the service regularly and adapt as necessary

About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Qualifications
Essential

• CN or RN (Child)
• Relevant First level degree or masters in appropriate subject or working towards

Desirable

• Recognised teaching/ mentorship qualification
• Previous audit experience

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of Work based learning and ability to meet competencies
• Significant post registration experience within an acute or community nursing setting.
• Experience of facilitating clinical decision making and the application of professional judgement in clinical situations
• Awareness of professional responsibilities

Desirable

• Completion the Advanced assessment of the presenting child Module at MSc level
• Community Qualification
• Independent prescribing or commitment to work towards

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of current issues relating to patient safety
• Knowledge of current legislation affecting health
• Good knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the management of an acutely unwell child

Skills
Essential

• Excellent clinical nursing skills pertinent to the role
• Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload
• Assertively manages situations which may be complex and involve conflict or crisis.
• Experience of the application, of professional judgement in a range of clinical and non-clinical situations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, is engaged and able to negotiate and mediate
• Communicates with clarity and direction, both written and verbally
• Analyses and identifies trends in clinical information, identifies issues and proposes solutions to problems

Desirable

• IT skills, use of data and spread sheets, production of clear reports, action plans and presentations
• Venepuncture and Cannulation skills

Other
Essential

• Adaptable and responsive to changing needs of the service
• Ability to accept wide responsibility and use own initiative
• Ability to identify and prevent stress in self and others, also taking effective action to manage the situation when it does impact on capability.
• Able to cope with and confidently work in adverse situations, being able to rapidly appraise and manage situations

This 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).