Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Whittington Health NHS Trust Hospital @ Home/ Community Children's Nursing Service for the London boroughs of Islington, Camden and South Barnet, the Team is based in North London at the Northern Health Centre, Holloway Road, Islington.



The service provides nursing care and support to children and young people at home as an alternative to hospital admission or as a method of reducing the length of stay in hospital.



We are looking for someone who can work flexible hours and weekends, has great work ethics, good team player and ability to work independently and coherently with multiple trusts.



Car drivers are essential to this role.



As a team, we will support all learning and development.



To provide and assist with the nursing care of unwell children in their homes and or place of care to reduce or avoid emergency admission to an acute setting.



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Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in 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 have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.



As a hospital @ home you will be responsible for delivering acute nursing care to patients within the home setting.



You will be responsible for accepting referrals, reviewing patients, liaising with the local inpatient units, delivering treatment, completing all tasks associated to the role.



You will also be expected to be a car driver and travel to the following borough such as, Islington, Camden and South Barnet.



We have allocated NHS trust cars which will you have access to however you may need you drive your own car when required. We will support with mileage claims whilst you work with the trust.