Job description

The opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated nurse to lead the Children's Continuing Care Team as a Clinical Team Lead, leading and supporting a team of skilled Health Care Assistants (HCA's) delivering 1:1 care packages to children with complex medical and health care needs across London Borough of Ealing.

This is an exciting opportunity, at a time of change and an ideal chance to enhance and utilise your clinical and leadership skills. You will need to be a highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge and should enjoy coordinating and communicating with a wide team of professionals.

This is a full-time permanent position (on-site/hybrid), however we also welcome candidates applying for a part-time position, as the position is suitable to be worked a a job share.

A key aspect of this post will be to provide professional leadership and management to a team of HCA's working closely with the Children's Continuing Health Care Commissioning Group (NWL ICB), Community Paediatric Services and ESCAN.

You will have the ability to provide case management of an identified caseload of children and young people with complex needs by utilising and promoting evidence-based care. You should also have excellent interpersonal skills to support you in managing complex discussions with a range of agencies and individuals, including care providers, patients and relatives.

In addition the ability to work in partnership with parents and multi-disciplinary agencies to provide skilled care to children and young people within the community to support safe discharge and hospital admission avoidance, is essential.

You will be highly organised and have a flexible approach to work, able to deal with difficult situations autonomously with demonstrable, excellent communication skills.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

We can offer you:

• A friendly, welcoming, nurturing and supportive work environment and will support you to develop your knowledge and skills through our organisational management and leadership development programs.
• We have a strong focus on staff wellbeing and have access to excellent staff engagement programs and support services via our People development team.
• Clinical/safeguarding supervision
• Strong Leadership and Management support

• To act as a specialist resource to clinically lead and manage the community children’s nursing team to ensure the day-to-day delivery is efficiently and effectively underpinned by a robust evidence base

• To have continued responsibility of the nursing assessments, care planning and evaluation of the children and young people on the caseload in partnership with them, their families and community

• Initiate excellent communication links within Ealing Service for Children with Additional Needs, Ealing Hospital, tertiary centres, nurseries, schools and other relevant settings to ensure the children and families receive streamlined integrated services to empower and promote independent living for them.
• Empower parents and carers to enable them to safely deliver care to their children within the community environment through education, support and risk assessment
• Ensure the community team has strong working relationships with GP’s, to ensure seamless care and provide advice, if required
• To have knowledge of local services available to children, young people and families
• Work with medical staff, nursing staff and therapy services on how to provide an integrated service within paediatrics
• Work in partnership with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding to ensure that clear and up to date protocols are in place for the effective management of child protection issues within the clinical area.
• Provide clinical experience on sensitive and confidential matters with child protection issues in the team
• Promote health promotion and healthy lifestyle where appropriate
• Provide expert advice regarding children nursing to other professionals to support the transition process