Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-SF130
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Roald Dahl Children with Medical Complexities Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership and coordination of the acute patient pathway for children with medical complexity (CMC). Ensure a high-quality service meeting the needs of the child and their family.
Work collaboratively with all stakeholders including MDTs, CNSs, clinical teams, Consultants, therapists, and community nursing teams across the Trust/Health Board. Coordinate multidisciplinary assessments meeting the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs of the CYP and their family at times of stability and crisis and develop strategies to address these needs with the multidisciplinary team. Work closely with ward-based nursing and medical colleagues from time of admission to provide a coordinated, seamless, individualized approach, ensuring that families are fully informed regarding care planning and ongoing arrangements to meet their child's clinical needs.
Provide visible and accessible advice and practical support, including teaching when required, to relatives of CMC, acting as a contact point for families throughout the patient’s journey.
Act as an ambassador for the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children’s charity. Act as a voluntary representative of the charity when required to represent and promote the role and links between the NHS Trust and RDMCC. Join and contribute to RDMCC’s internal communication platform (Workplace from Meta) with encouragement from the NHS Trust.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Child branch or Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN)
- First level degree in relevant subject
- Evidence of continued professional development and training
Desirable criteria
- Advanced communication skills training or prepared to work towards
Essential
Essential criteria
- Teaching qualification or equivalent, willingness to undertake, or equivalent experience
- Relevant post registration experience in children’s nursing
- Demonstrable post registration experience
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of other services within primary, secondary and tertiary care, social care and education
Desirable criteria
- Leadership development programme or willingness to undertake leadership training.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Direct care skills in hospital and community settings • Knowledge of communication with children with special educational needs or sensory impairment
- Sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding vulnerable children and vulnerable adults
- Advanced clinical assessment skills and ability to make autonomous clinical decisions and judgments.
- Knowledge of communication with children with special educational needs or sensory impairment
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in audit and evaluation
- Teaching and presentation skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Roshni Vadher
- Job title
- Matron for Healthcare Transition
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717588360
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