We’re looking for a Band 5 or Band 6 (depending on experience) Bank Continuing Care Nurse - Nights to join our Wiltshire and BaNES Childrens Continuing Care Nursing service. 

The Children's Continuing Care team works across Wiltshire and BaNES providing night care and support to children who meet Childrens Continuing Care criteria. This includes children and young people with tracheostomies, long term ventilation requirements, enteral feeding and/or other complex heath needs. We provide care in family homes. 

This is a night nurse role where the typical working hours are between 22:00 – 7:00.

Nights can be flexible throughout the week and locations are across Wiltshire and BaNES.

As this is a community based role you will need to have a full UK Driving Licence and access to a car.

As a Bank Children's Continuing Care Nurse, you’ll be part of our dynamic team based at either Chippenham, Trowbridge, Salisbury or Bath.  You will feel valued as a Children's Continuing Care Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• 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

As a Bank Children's Community Care Nurse you will:

• Co-ordinate and lead the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for children/young people and their families/carers
• Independently carry out nursing procedures and techniques including complex procedures
• Be a point of contact for families on the Children’s Continuing Care Team and act as a liaison between professionals from all agencies when appropriate
• Participate in the development of Service specific protocols and guidelines

• Ensure the rights, dignity and confidentiality of the child/young person are always paramount
• Actively engage and encourage the involvement of Service Users/Carers in service planning and delivery of care

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have:

• NMC Registration as Registered Children’s Nurse
• A full UK driving licence and access to a car
• Teaching and assessing experience in clinical practice
• Awareness of recent Government initiatives that may affect future clinical practice
• Community experience
• Case management experience

It is desirable to have skills in Long Term Ventilation, Tracheostomy management and complex health needs – although training and upskilling sessions can be provided.

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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