Job overview

Are you a passionate, energetic Children’s Nurse?

An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time band 5 Community Children's Nurse to work within the Bexley and Greenwich Community Children’s Nursing Team and integrated Hospital at Home Team.

The team provides a seven day service from 08.00 to 20:30, there is also 24 hour on call provision for children & young people who require end of life care at home.

The team of specialist and generic children’s community nurses provide skilled, comprehensive nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings in the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich. 

The Community Children’s Nursing and Hospital at Home Team has a competency framework to support the process of induction and professional development for the Children’s Community and Hospital at Home Nurse. After completion of this framework the post holder will share a caseload with a senior member of the nursing team and be able to work without direct supervision.

Main duties of the job

The CCN/HAH is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

The post holder will be required provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: acute and long term conditions, children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care.

To work in partnership with other community based statutory, voluntary organisations to deliver seamless services for children and their family.

 The post holder will be required to travel between sites and patients homes across the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care