Job summary

Are you a Registered Childrens Nurse, looking for a new and exciting opportunity to work within the Diana Childrens Community Service, covering Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland?

Currently we have vacancies in the Diana Childrens Training Team.

As a Diana Training Nurse, you will develop, facilitate and deliver training in a specific range of delegable health care tasks to health and non-health members of staff in order that staff can safely meet the needs of children and young people with complex health care needs in a variety of settings e.g. schools

You will be expected to facilitate empowerment and partnership working with children/ young people and their families and multi-agency services.

You will be an effective team player, but also be able to plan and organise your own workload, possess excellent communication skills, and an ability to teach families and health professionals

You will be expected to participate in the provision of appropriately managed packages of care for terminally ill children/ young people in hospital and community by being involved with 24/7 on-call system

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the Diana Childrens Community Service as a Band 6 Nurse based within the training team covering Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

To develop, facilitate and deliver training in a specific range of delegable health care tasks to health and non-health members of staff in order that staff can safely meet the needs of children and young people with complex health care needs in a variety of settings e.g. schools.

Empower staff through support and training to deliver complex health care tasks confidently and competently in accordance with the Leicester Competency Assessment Tool (LCAT).

To complete assessments of clinical skills and competencies of the health and non-health staff who have attended Diana Training Team theory/e-learning sessions using LCAT.

To be confident at delivering training in a variety of formats within various health and non-health care settings, using IT equipment

Identify any additional health training needs required by service users and feedback/discuss with the wider Diana Training team

Attend any training pertinent to the role ensuring you maintain your own clinical competencies through peer assessments.

Completed ENB 998/CG/Mentorship course or equivalent.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.