The iCCN team provide specialist nursing care, support and co-ordination of care to children and young people (CYP) with complex health care needs and disabilities. These may include those with life limiting/life threatening conditions, chronic illnesses, palliative care needs, end of life care needs and short-term acute care needs including urgent care pathways.

Due to exciting developmental opportunities, we are seeking a skilled, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Community Children's Nurse for our integrated Community Children's Nursing (iCCN) team.

Our established, passionate and dedicated iCCN team work collaboratively with children, young people, families, and the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is provided as close to home as possible. We provide high quality and holistic, family centred care to CYP with a nursing need including those with:

• Acute and short-term conditions
• Long term conditions
• Disabilities, complex conditions, those requiring continuing care and neonates.
• Life-limiting and life-threatening illness, including those requiring palliative and end of life care.

As a CCN you will have the opportunity to shape our responsive service as it continually adapts to the ever-changing needs of the families. Having a key role in care planning, training, and multi-disciplinary liaison for CYP with a range of needs within their home, school, and wider community.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

• The iCCN service aims to provide a high quality in reach and outreach nursing service which enables early, safe planned discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admissions.
• Manage a caseload. Provide specialised, high quality skilled nursing care, considering the physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs of the child with nursing care needs. This will include those with complex health care needs, palliative care needs, life-limiting illnesses and children dependant on technology (and those requiring short term support). This requires developing, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes of care.
• Support the management of the integrated acute and community care pathways for children with short term conditions
• Provide supervision and monitoring of junior staff/students with support of senior team.
• Work with families to provide emotional support and specialist clinical care, sensitive to the changing and on-going needs of the child, siblings, parents and other carers.
• Teach families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enables them to feel confident and competent in caring for the child.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document, click on the apply button to view the document. 

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification Qualifications Essential

• BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMC
• Willingness to complete CCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification
• Practice assessor/supervisor

Experience

Essential

• Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans
• Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
• Experience of MDT working
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
• Evidence of recent CPD or desire to progress.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Clinically competent at Band 5 level
• Good communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding
• Ability to work autonomously; prioritise workload, work within clear code of practice, having an understanding of personal limitations to ensure working within scope of practice.
• Problem solving skills
• Advocacy skills
• Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
• Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management
• Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing /evaluating patients' conditions
• Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
• There is a frequent requirement for physical effort manoeuvring patient and moving equipment
• Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues
• Ability to adapt to change within work situation
• There is a frequent requirement to manage unpleasant working conditions i.e. body fluids
• Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
• Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
• Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
• Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
• Knowledge of health promotion
• UK Driving Licence and use of a car to carry out community visits.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please click on the apply button.