Childrens Community Nursing Team Lead in King's Lynn

The post holder provides clinical leadership and support to the community nursing teams. This involves managing a wide range of complex and sometimes conflicting priorities. Implementation of and compliance with policies and procedures, including safe staffing across the outpatient and community services ensuring the delivery of high value, family centred responsive and efficient patient care.

Facilitate and provide the delivery of a high standard of patient care in conjunction with the child and their family/carers. Support and develop family centred care. Promote interagency multidisciplinary working by developing joint action plans, protocols, and pathways to ensure continuous quality improvement for service needs. At all times ensure that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery.

Main duties of the job:

• Lead and motivate the team, supporting with prioritising caseloads and self management.
• Support all team members to teach and assess, support the wider nursing team to families/carers to carry out specific nursing care for a variety of conditions.
• Work in collaboration with parents/carers, acting as an advocate for the families, providing care to children and young people in accordance with the child's plan of care to meet the nursing and therapy needs, and liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team when changes occur.

Qualifications/training and professional development:

• Registered Nurse - Child
• Educated to degree level
• Undertaken a Teaching and Mentorship Course
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills
• Non-Medical Prescribing

Experience:

• Significant experience working in a paediatric environment
• Previous experience as a shift/team leader
• Previous experience of formal/informal teaching of patients, families and staff
• Experience of participating in budget management

Skills, abilities and knowledge:

• Good theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical areas of paediatrics (including IV drug administration and use of CVL) committed to family centered care
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Managerial and leadership abilities
• Good knowledge of safeguarding, children and vulnerable adults

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.