Children's Community Nurse - CH HOME - Fixed Term
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Children's Community Nurse - CH HOME - Fixed TermThe closing date is 03 December 2025
We are looking for a skilled Paediatric nurse with a passion for hospital avoidance and community nursing. If you have excellent communication skills, and a commitment to compassionate, safe, and effective care able to work well within and thriving team.
Interview Date: 10th December 2025
Main duties of the jobKey Responsibilities:
- Manage a caseload of children and young people within Hospital at Home guidance and pathways
- Facilitate early discharge and prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
- Work collaboratively inpatient teams, and emergency departments.
- Provide specialist advice, education, and support across community and acute settings.
UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.
If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.
UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.
Job responsibilitiesHigh standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patient journey.
Assess, plan and implement ambulatory, unscheduled care within the acute hospital and community environment to facilitate timely early discharge and reduce readmission to hospital
Provides highly specialist advice and treatment planning support to clinical areas and to own caseload of patients.
Work closely with primary care working within unscheduled care.
To provide CCN education to other staff and students ensuring developing and maintaining basic specialist knowledge and skills in the wider clinical teams to ensure continuity of high-quality care.
Advocate for the child /young person to ensure their needs are always safeguarded. Adhere to the trust and local child protection and safeguarding policy.
Deliver CCN services within an interagency, multi professional context Signpost, collaborate and refer to ensure that comprehensive care based on assessed need is delivered.
To carry out all duties and conduct themselves in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.
Recognise own strengths and limitations and ask for help when unsure and thereby act as an assertive and responsible practitioner
To value others and their contribution to the team by:
Recognising and valuing individual attributes of team members
Displaying sensitivity to colleagues needs and feelings
Acknowledging equal opportunities for all team members
Person Specification Qualification- Qualification
- Community experience
- Band 6 experience
- Lone working
- community experirenc e
- 2 years post qualifying
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.
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust