Senior Practitioner for Children's Continuing Care

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  • North London
  • £56,276-63,176 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 5 days ago
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse to join our Children's Continuing Care Team as a Senior Practitioner, supporting children and young people with complex and evolving health needs across Islington, Camden, and Haringey.You will lead on clinical practice, case management, and service development for children with complex physical health conditions, autism, and behaviours that challenge access to healthcare. This role involves working collaboratively with families, schools, the ICB, social care, and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure safe, high-quality, and coordinated care in community settings.We welcome applications from adult-trained nurses with relevant paediatric experience, as well as those with a background in learning disability nursing and mental health.As a senior nurse, you will provide supervision and leadership to junior staff, take a lead role in safeguarding and risk management, and advocate strongly for the voice of the child. You will also contribute to quality improvement and innovation within the service.The post include is mostly Monday to Friday but may include weekends and nights when new packages are started.We offer a supportive, integrated care environment with opportunities for professional development, academic study, and access to excellent transport links, a pool car, and season ticket loan.Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.Main duties of the jobTo supervise, teach and support a team of nurses and carers that provide health caresupport for children receiving a continuing care package.There will be a requirement for the post holder to work clinically with carers and withinthe family home clinically and shifts will vary according to the package and trainingrequirement.To ensure that nursing practice is consistently of highest quality and based on researchfindings in both the child's home and the hospital setting. This will require shift working,many of which are night duties and flexible work patterns are available. To clinically assess new referrals using the continuing care framework in placeapplying and following local policy.To have knowledge of the continuing care framework to implement this as appropriatefor our caseload.About usWhittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hardto ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible toeveryone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look afterour staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative aspossible of this population, so we are open to the value of differencesin age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity,race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we havean obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and otherformal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive tothese differences. We think that by doing so, we are better ableto treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.DetailsDate posted29 August 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 7Salary£56,276 to £63,176 a year Inclusive of Inner HCAS per annumContractPermanentWorking patternFull-timeReference number220-WHT-3359Job locationsNorthern Health CentreLondonN7 6LBJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesTo supervision, teach and support a team of nurses and carers that provide health care support for children receiving a continuing care package.There will be a requirement for the post holder to work clinically with carers and withinthe family home clinically and shifts will vary according to the package and trainingrequirement.To ensure that nursing practice is consistently of highest quality and based on research findings in both the child's home and the hospital setting. This will require shift working, many of which are night duties and flexible work patterns are available.To clinically assess new referrals using the continuing care framework in place applying and following local policy.To have knowledge of the continuing care framework to implement this as appropriate for our caseload.To understand and implement all pathways within the framework and local policy.To assist the discharge lead nurse with the process of the child's transfer from hospital to home.To work in partnership with the family, understanding the needs of the child and family in the community.To be the lead professional for an allocated caseload within the continuing care team.To lead and work in partnership with the band 6 nursing team to ensure records of care training and required competency booklets to enable carers to delivery individualised care is maintained.Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details. Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesTo supervision, teach and support a team of nurses and carers that provide health care support for children receiving a continuing care package.There will be a requirement for the post holder to work clinically with carers and withinthe family home clinically and shifts will vary according to the package and trainingrequirement.To ensure that nursing practice is consistently of highest quality and based on research findings in both the child's home and the hospital setting. This will require shift working, many of which are night duties and flexible work patterns are available.To clinically assess new referrals using the continuing care framework in place applying and following local policy.To have knowledge of the continuing care framework to implement this as appropriate for our caseload.To understand and implement all pathways within the framework and local policy.To assist the discharge lead nurse with the process of the child's transfer from hospital to home.To work in partnership with the family, understanding the needs of the child and family in the community.To be the lead professional for an allocated caseload within the continuing care team.To lead and work in partnership with the band 6 nursing team to ensure records of care training and required competency booklets to enable carers to delivery individualised care is maintained.Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.Person SpecificationClinical experienceEssential
  • 2 years experience working within paediatrics
  • Experience working with children with complex health needs
Desirable
  • Experience working within children's continuing care
  • experience caring for children with a tracheostomy
  • experience caring for children requiring ventilation
  • experience caring for children with behaviours that challenge
  • experience working with children in the community
Leadership experienceEssential
  • Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
  • Experience managing a team
  • Experience managing change
  • Experience in managing conflict
Service development experienceEssential
  • Experience managing risk
Desirable
  • Experience in service development
  • Experience in managing a complaint
Person SpecificationClinical experienceEssential
  • 2 years experience working within paediatrics
  • Experience working with children with complex health needs
Desirable
  • Experience working within children's continuing care
  • experience caring for children with a tracheostomy
  • experience caring for children requiring ventilation
  • experience caring for children with behaviours that challenge
  • experience working with children in the community
Leadership experienceEssential
  • Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
  • Experience managing a team
  • Experience managing change
  • Experience in managing conflict
Service development experienceEssential
  • Experience managing risk
Desirable
  • Experience in service development
  • Experience in managing a complaint

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