Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy Children’s Community Nursing Team as a Children’s Community Nurse. The successful candidate will embrace the challenge of working across different environments to meet diverse service user need. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience working as an autonomous practitioner and gaining knowledge across an array of specialties, strengthening multi-professional working relationships. It is a role whereby excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail and professional curiosity is paramount.

Please note as part of the interview process we may have a youth panel interview alongside our formal interview process, details of this will be provided to successfully short listed candidates' as required.

For an informal chat or to discuss the position in more detail please contact Paula Montgomery via 01752 439444.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist community nursing service for children with acute and ongoing care needs within residential and educational settings. 
• To provide support to the lead professional for a child when planning and assessing a child’s health needs ensuring they are met within health care budgets if needed. 
• Provide education, advice and support empowering families to manage their child’s condition at home and within the specialist schools. 
• Provide or ensure the safe provision of evidenced based clinical care in both generic and specialist community nursing settings. 

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.