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Job overview

Do you want to be part of our growing team at an exciting time?

Croydon Health Services offers a truly integrated approach to paediatric nursing across our acute and community services. Supporting seamless pathways for children and young people between the hospital and their home for children requiring short-term admissions to those with long-term health needs.

You will be managing children acute and long term healthcare needs between the primary, secondary and tertiary interface. (Case management will be supervised by the Band 7 Community Children’s Nurse as required).

You want to work with and support the families and other agencies, facilitating delivery of nursing care.

Interview - TBC

Main duties of the job

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• To facilitate effective communication links between primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare providers, and the voluntary and statutory sectors.
  
• To be a children’s nursing resource for families and professionals, providing one to one and group teaching sessions as required.
  
• To have day-to-day clinical responsibility for the Children’s Hospital at Home Team caseload to meet the individual needs of children and their families, in the absence of senior colleagues.
• To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care, liaising and referring as necessary.
• To be responsible for all liaison, action and documentation required following nursing care interventions.

Working for our organisation

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust wasÌýformed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide servicesÌýforÌýa population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.

Across the NHS everyone isÌýworkingÌýhard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.

If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challengeÌýyourself and be part of an NHS Trust that’s making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you’re lookingÌýfor.