Paediatric Community Outreach Nurse

Find out about the current vacancies available at the Trust and take the next step in your career with us. At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, our main priority is, and always will be, providing safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. If you share our passion then apply for this opportunity and help us make our patients’ experience the best it can possibly be.

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate clinician to join our Community Children’s Nursing Team. In this role, you will work in partnership with children, young people, and their families/carers to deliver high‑quality, evidence‑based nursing care for a range of acute and short‑term conditions, following agreed care plans. Working with minimal direct supervision, you will undertake delegated care and contribute to seamless, family‑centred support. The role requires close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team across both community and secondary care settings, ensuring a coordinated approach that places the child and family at the centre of all decision‑making.

Main duties of the job:

• Work in partnership with children, young people, their families/carers, and the Community Children’s Nursing (CCN) team to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individual care needs, following agreed written care plans.
• Communicate any changes in a child or young person’s condition promptly to the CCN and wider multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated and seamless care.
• Utilise an empowerment and family‑centred approach to care, supporting families to be active partners and contributing to effective transition planning into adult services.
• Provide a safe alternative to hospital admission and support early discharge when appropriate, ensuring robust risk assessment and risk management are consistently applied.
• Promote the safeguarding and protection of children and young people by identifying and escalating concerns in line with Local Safeguarding Children Board and Trust policies and procedures.
• Participate in clinical supervision and safeguarding supervision in accordance with Trust policy.
• Demonstrate commitment to Improving Working Lives (IWL) principles and work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
• Communicate effectively with children, young people, families, and professionals, adapting communication methods to overcome barriers and ensure understanding.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts. At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, we want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience. We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well‑being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Person specification essential and desirable:

• Access to transport and the ability to change location within a short time.
• Time management and judgement skills.
• Able to manage delegated workload with minimum supervision.
• Registered Nurse child/RSCN.
• Evidence of ongoing professional study.
• Friendly professional manner and managing professional boundaries.
• Flexibility to meet the demands of the role.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: The Trust welcomes applications from everyone, no matter your age, background, race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family circumstances or beliefs.

Disability: We are a Disability Confident Lead employer. This means we give fair and full consideration to applicants and will offer reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. If you need help with your application, or need the information in a different format, please contact our recruitment team and we will support you.

Right to work in the UK: The Trust welcomes applications from all candidates who meet the criteria for the role. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland nationals require sponsorship unless they have permission to work via another route.

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.