Registered Nurse - Continuing Care Team

A Vacancy at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for flexible qualified Children's Nurse's to join the Derby Children's Continuing Care team as a Band 5. Using your knowledge and experience you will be required to teach, support and supervise our team of Family Support Workers providing bespoke care packages to individual children. Staff are required to care for children and young people weighing up to 70kg with 2 staff for manual handling purposes when required. Staff are also required to wear Personal Protective Equipment including FFP3 masks when required. You will also be required to work a variety of clinical shifts including days, long days, nights, weekends, bank holidays and twilight shifts. The shifts are provided across Derby and Derbyshire and therefore the ability to drive is essential. Specialist training will be provided and there is the potential for progression within the team for the right individual. The team provides specialist care to children and young people with complex health needs in the community setting. These complex health needs range from epilepsy, enteral feeding, tracheostomy care to full home ventilation and includes some children with life limiting conditions. We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses as full training and support will be given. These shifts will be worked in the children's homes, nursery/schools or respite centre's either as a lone worker or working alongside members of the team when 2 staff are required for moving and handling purposes. You will be required to act as a Key Worker for individual children with the support of a band 6/7 Specialist Nurse, providing high quality, integrated assessment and ongoing support. You will be expected to work in partnership and liaise with the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team. We welcome applications for those who with the relevant qualifications and/or experience. Due to the nature of the role staff are required to sign up to the DBS update service to ensure the safety of the patients and families we care for in the community.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.