Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our dynamic Community Children's Nursing team, where you will support your nursing colleagues to make a difference and care for children and their families within their own homes following discharge from hospital or receiving long term care. You will have the opportunity to learn new skills and increase your knowledge and skill base. You will work as part of a team, being able to prioritise your own workload, covering a large geographical area, delivering care in both a creative and empathetic manner. 

Main duties of the job

To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the needs of patients. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.

·To provide patients and relatives with information and education,

To undertake home visits to service users 

·To maintain confidentiality 

·Perform clinical observations, be able to interpret them and escalate when necessary.

·To download sleep study machines (training provided)

To perform peripheral blood sampling (training and competencies provided).

·To pass nasogastric tubes (training and competencies provided

To supervise pre-reg nursing students

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.

·To identify and escalate safeguarding concerns in accordance with local procedures.

·Monitortheconditionandhealthneedsofpatients ensuring appropriate escalation to a Registered Nurse when required

·Communicateeffectivelywithdignityandrespecttoallpatients,relativesandothers 

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Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,258 to a maximum of £2,122 pro rata for part time).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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·The post holder will have the NNEB, CACHE or equivalent qualification and robust child development knowledge. They will have experience working with children with different needs.

The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

·The post holder will be responsible for patients allocated to them and will observe the child in their home environment and/or school/nursery, identifying the child and family’s need and providing support to children and families/carers.

·The post holder will support families by signposting children/YP, families/carers to available resources within the borough for additional support and information.

·The post holder will assist the team members and the wider multi-disciplinary team to contribute to the management/assessment of children/young people (YP)

·The post holder will be an advocate for children and families within the service.

·The post holder will establish and maintain effective communication with children, young people, parents and carers, colleagues, multidisciplinary team, and Local Authority to achieve a positive health status for the child and family.

Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

Holds the NNEB, CACHE or equivalent qualification and robust child development knowledge.

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in the community setting

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with children with different needs.

Desirable criteria

Experience of working as part of a team and autonomously

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Able to drive and holds a current driving license

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the local geographical area

Professionalism

Essential criteria

Awareness of safeguarding issues

Desirable criteria

Awareness of reporting concerns

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.