Regional Paediatric Nurse

Package Description

What we offer in return:

• A competitive salary

• 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years' service

• An additional day off for your Birthday

• Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff

• Long Service Awards

• Work Place Pension

• Employee assistance programme (EAP) - confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7

• Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.

• A friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

Job Introduction

Regional Paediatric Nurse:  Home working & Community Setting

£32,000-£41,000 pa (equivalent to Agenda for Change band 6/7, depending on experience)

Hours: Part time (21 hours per week) but would consider full time hours

Contract: Fixed Term contracts available

Location:  Predominantly Liverpool region with minimal oversight/support in Blackpool 

We want to make life better for more people. If you are as passionate about quality as we are and you want a role where your skills will make a real difference, this is a great opportunity to grow and develop.  We are an exciting business that puts people front and centre of everything we do.

Prestige Nursing & Care, part of the Sodexo Group, has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 35 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients.

We offer complex clinical nursing care, led by an experienced registered nurse, to clients in their own homes from babies to children and adults of all ages

We are looking for an experienced Nursing Professional to join our Team as their Regional Paediatric Nurse supporting the Liverpool and Blackpool regions on either a part-time or full-time basis.

Predominantly based in the Liverpool area, you will be the ‘named nurse’ for a specified number of children/young people. You will also work closely with the clinical team based in Blackpool. This involves providing intermittent cover, oversight and support to a small number of children in that region.

You will report to the Clinical Lead for the North and will be further supported by the Paediatric and Children’s safeguarding Lead.  During the Covid 19 pandemic, our regional nurses have been home based with access to branch office where required, to support on-going work in the community setting.

If you think you have the required skills and experience, please apply for this role to begin your journey with Prestige Nursing & Care.

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Main Responsibilities

Reporting to Clinical Lead for the North Region your role will include:

• Responsibility for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of complex clinical care packages
• Implementing our high standards of care
• Participating in quality improvements through supervision and audit
• Re-assessing and re-evaluating programmes of care when needed.
• Supporting non registrant carers to provide hands-on care; this involves teaching and undertaking competency assessments/ sign-offs.
• Being an active member of the nursing team – developing teaching tools, policy and sharing best practice whenever possible.
• Contributing to company-wide initiatives and improvement projects relating to clinical care provision.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for:

An enthusiastic forward-thinking children’s nurse, ideally with community experience and a teaching qualification or experience, although we will consider those with proven expertise and sound clinical skills in paediatrics who are keen to gain community experience. You will have the confidence and competence to oversee a varied case-load, and contribute to the on-going development of nurse-led care provision and support to non-registrant professional carers delivering care.

Essential requirements

• Current UK professional NMC registration: RNC/RSCN/RN:LD with significant ( over 2 years) paediatric complex needs experience
• Ongoing CPD evidence
• A recognised teaching and assessing qualification, 998 or Learning Through Mentorship
• Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding procedures
• To have had some clinical experience working within a community setting.
• Car owner, driver essential 

About The Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.