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Job summary

Main area
Children's community nursing/hospital@home
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: fixed term
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long day shifts, service runs seven days a week)
Job ref
220-WHT-3398
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Northern Health Centre
Town
lslington
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 Per annum (pro rata) Including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/10/2025 23:59
Interview date
08/10/2025

Employer heading

Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Paediatric Hospital @ Home Nurse/Community children's nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

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We encourage and support  staff to get  COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. 

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Whittington Health NHS Trust Hospital @ Home/ Community Children’s Nursing Service for the London boroughs of Islington, Camden and South Barnet, the Team is based in North London at the Northern Health Centre, Holloway Road, Islington.

The service provides nursing care and support to children and young people at home as an alternative to hospital admission or as a method of reducing the length of stay in hospital. 

We are looking for someone who can work flexible hours and weekends, has great work ethics, good team player and ability to work independently and coherently with multiple trusts. 

Car drivers are essential to this role.

As a team, we will support all learning and development.

Main duties of the job

To provide and assist with the nursing care of unwell children in their homes and or place of care to reduce or avoid emergency admission to an acute setting.

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Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust  believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a hospital @ home you will be responsible for delivering acute nursing care to patients within the home setting. 

You will be responsible for accepting referrals, reviewing patients, liaising with the local inpatient units, delivering treatment, completing all tasks associated to the role. 

You will also be expected to be a car driver and travel to  the following borough such as, Islington, Camden and South Barnet. 

We have allocated NHS trust cars  which will you have access to however you may need you drive your own car when required.  We will support with mileage claims whilst you work with the trust. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RSCN or RN (child branch)
  • Evidence of mentorship or Preceptorship
Desirable criteria
  • Degree in children's nursing
  • specialist practitioner in children's community nursing

Exerience

Essential criteria
  • Hospital or acute general nursing
  • Experience of working with children with long term conditions and children with special needs
  • Experience of team working
  • Being able to work autonomously without constant supervision.
  • Experience of mentoring nursing students
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of nursing in a diverse inner city community setting

Skills and Abilities and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to prioritize clinical workload
Desirable criteria
  • experience working in the community

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Cullen
Job title
Hospital at Home Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 3316 1950

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Telephone
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