Children's Community Nurse

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic forward-thinking Community Children's Nurse (CCN) to join our Community Children's Nursing team., As a registered Childrens Nurse, you will be working as part of the Childrens Community Nursing Service. The Community Childrens Nurse CCN, is responsible for the ongoing assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of specialised nursing care. You will provide a holistic, family centred approach to care within the community for children with a range of acute and chronic conditions, including-

Long term conditions and complex needs

Life limiting conditions,

Palliative care and End of life care

Acute and short-term nursing interventions

The CCN service aims to provide a high-quality nursing service which enables early, safe planned discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admissions providing a holistic approach to care within the community. With the support of the Senior CCNs and the Clinical Team Lead, you will act as a resource of paediatric expertise, providing advice to other professionals, promoting evidence-based practice. This will require following NMC guidelines, demonstrating autonomy, professional curiosity, and accountability.Safeguarding is a fundamental part of the CCN role and requires a sound knowledge base to safely manage their caseload.

You will be supported with regular supervisions, 1:1s and appraisals.

Our service is a link between Primary, Secondary and Tertiary care, and the wider MDT. Care is delivered in the community location that is the most appropriate for that child or young person.

If you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work as a team player, as well as the initiative to work autonomously, we would like to hear from you. You should have good organisational skills and evidence of continued professional development. Previous community nursing experience would be desirable, although not essential.

Our established passionate and dedicated CCN team work collaboratively with babies, children, young people, families, BCYP, 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 BCYP with a nursing need across the Southampton and West Hampshire area., Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence