Overview
Band 5 Jessie May Children’s Nurse – Greenways, Chippenham, Wiltshire
Job Introduction
Do you have a passion for delivering compassionate, holistic nursing care to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions? Would you like to make a real difference to families in their own homes?
Join our small, dedicated Jessie May Care Team in the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) area, where you will provide specialist palliative nursing and respite care to children and young people in the community.
You will provide skilled holistic nursing care to children and young people who have complex medical needs within the family home or other environments where respite is requested including, on occasions, hospital-based care. You will also provide emotional support and advice to the children, and parent/carers on the caseload, and will be responsible for the planning, implementation and the evaluation of individualised care during each respite visit in the absence of the parents or carers.
You will be skilled in communicating, establishing and maintaining good relationships with the children, young people and their families on the caseload and work effectively within the Jessie May Care Team.
This is an extremely rewarding role that is part-time (25.5 hours per week).
We have base locations across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire so you will be allocated a base closest to your home however, as this is a community based role travel is required and therefore willingness to travel and a valid UK driving licence is essential for this role.
Main Responsibility
Main Responsibilities
- Provide safe and effective respite care to children on the BSW Jessie May caseload. Care to always be provided in line with child specific care plan(s).
- Maintain clinical skills and competency on a range of complex health needs, to include (but not exclusive to): tracheostomy management, enteral feeding, seizure management, long term ventilation, oral suction, nursing observation and assessment.
- Follow any emergency procedures/guidelines for the child or young person receiving care.
- Administer medication in line with medicines administration charts and service policy.
- Assist with dressing, undressing, personal hygiene, toileting in a sensitive manner, encouraging the child or young person to be as independent as possible within their capability.
- Ensure the child and their family are at the centre of everything that we do. Provide care that is consistent with their wishes and ensure the ‘voice of the child’ is heard and underpins everything that you do.
- Actively listen to the child and family, and offer emotional support using empathetic communication.
- Keep records of all care given and observations made in accordance with HCRG Care Group policy.
- Identify the need for any additional emotional support for the child and the parent/carer and communicate this in an appropriate manner to the care team and Jessie May team around the family.
- Recognise the need for specialised bereavement support, especially around the
- Advance Care Plans and funeral planning. Maintain communication with the care team and Bereavement lead to ensure the family receives all appropriate support as needed.
- Participate in service evaluation and development.
For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registered Children’s Nurse
- Driving license and access to a vehicle
- Skills in complex nursing care, such as tracheostomy management, long term ventilation, enteral feeding, seizure management
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to build effective working relationships
- Ability to work under pressure and remain calm
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Self-awareness
- IT literate
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Aware of own stress and coping strategies
Desirable
- Experience with supporting children with palliative care, or end of life needs
- Continued professional development relating to palliative or end of life care
Package Description
As a Band 5 Jessie May Children’s Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team based in Wiltshire.
You will feel valued as a Jessie May Children’s Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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