About the role
Salary: £55524.00 to £62652.00
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Community Children's Nurse to work in the Continuing Care Team as a clinical lead. This is a clinical role to manage the continuing care caseload, it is separate and apart from the undertaking of continuing care assessments and care package set up, the focus of the nurse will be to lead on areas related to direct clinical care.
Ensuring the Continuing Care Team (0-18 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.
Identifying new theories, policies and guidelines relating to complex health needs care in the community; disseminating research findings and developing local policies and standards accordingly.
Providing professional and clinical leadership to all children's community nursing staff, ensuring that they are engaged with and adhering to local policies, guidelines and expectations.
Assessing nursing care needs, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of nursing care for children and young people on the caseload.
The role will be integrated within the existing Community Childrens Nursing Team and the Childrens Continuing Care Team, who are part of an integrated network of services for children and young people in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and generic childrens community nurses provides skilled, high quality, comprehensive nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.