Main area Children's Nursing Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5pm Monday to Friday with outside of these hours for specific clinical care in exceptional circumstances) Job ref 828-PROVIDE3586
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Wren House Town Chelmsford Salary £29,970 - £36,483 depending on experience Salary period Yearly Closing 14/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 18/07/2025
Job Overview
To work as part of the Children’s Community Nursing Team as an experienced band 5 nurse, providing nursing care primarily within a child’s home, ensuring the delivery of evidenced based care to children and their families or carers. To apply for this post you must have a NMC Child Nursing registration. The application must have a full driving licence. and access to a car for business use.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
- to participate in and critically evaluate the assessment, planning and provision of skilled nursing care in negotiation with the child and family, in conjunction with the CCN team leader
- to provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children within their own homes including technology dependent such as tracheostomy care and central venous access.
- To teach parents and carers skills to enable them to look after their child at home
- To provide information and support to facilitate the child and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care
- to promote Health Education as an integrated aspect of care delivery
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Management
- to facilitate and encourage a learning environment and be actively involved in meeting the educational needs of learners
- to be responsible for the care of equipment issued to a home and to report any defect or loss
- to participate in Child Protection procedures.
- to establish and maintain good relationships with the members of the multi-disciplinary team, for example, Acute services, Tertiary Centres, Social Services and other agencies
- to actively participate in the orientation and development of new staff to the community
- to participate in developing the CCN team
Administration
- to maintain accurate records and statistical returns as required by Provide
- to participate in team and multi-agency meetings / conferences.
- to take appropriate action in regard to any accident or incident to a child, family member, staff member or visitor
- to be aware of Provide policies and act accordingly
- to maintain and update child’s care plan in partnership with family and key professionals involved in that child’s care.
Personal Development
- to be aware of and act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct
- to participate in clinical and safeguarding supervision in accordance with Provide policy
- to participate in reflective self- appraisal and Personal Development Planning review
- to maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills and undertake education in accordance with individual, team and organisation needs, within a framework of a Professional Development Review
- to ensure personal and team safety by adhering to Provide policy on safety
- to be aware of and act in accordance with the organisations clinical standards and policies
Communication
- Communicate condition-related information to the child and family/carers with empathy and reassurance.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with families and MDT on complex and potentially stressful topics in a range of situations.
- Develops, maintains professional relationships and communicates information to a wide range of health service and external staff as appropriate.
- Communicates issues relating to safeguarding children with the child, families and MDT.
- The post holder will be responsible for contemporaneous record keeping.
There may be a requirement to work outside of normal working hours to facilitate end-of-life care at home with the expectation to support with on call duties which includes overnight and weekend cover.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Registered children's nurse
- over 12 months' of nursing experience
Desirable criteria
- community nursing experience
- palliative care experience
- demonstrates evidence of both team working and independently
- demonstrates experience in training either other staff, students or parents
- Experience of system one use
Essential
Essential criteria
- Car Driver with access to car for busniess use
Evidence of clinical skills e.g IVAB
Essential criteria
- Competent in administration of intravenous antibiotics
- Competent in nasogastric tube insertion
- Competent in accessing central lines
Desirable criteria
- Phlebotomy
- Experience in healthcare training
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
- All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
- As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
- If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via [email protected]
- If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Anti Fraud
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or
[email protected].
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
