Paediatric Nurse

Job Purpose

As a Branch Nurse, you will play a key role in assessing, planning, implementing, and reviewing high-quality care packages for adults living in the community. You will ensure that care is safe, effective, person-centred, and tailored to each individual's needs. Working closely with clients, families, care staff, and multidisciplinary professionals, you will provide clinical leadership, delegation, training, and support to maintain the highest standards of care delivery.

This role involves supporting adults with a wide range of needs, including complex health conditions, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health needs, neurological conditions, palliative care requirements, and age-related health conditions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Care Assessment and Planning

• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments to identify the health, social, emotional, and environmental needs of clients.

• Develop, implement, review, and update person-centred care plans tailored to individual needs, preferences, goals, and outcomes.

• Complete risk assessments and develop strategies to minimise identified risks while promoting independence and quality of life.

• Ensure all care plans reflect current best practice, safeguarding principles, and regulatory requirements.

• Assess adults with complex care needs, including those requiring specialist interventions, long-term condition management, and end-of-life care.

2. Care Implementation and Monitoring

• Oversee the delivery of care packages, ensuring care is provided in accordance with agreed care plans and clinical standards.

• Regularly monitor, evaluate, and review care outcomes, making recommendations and adjustments where required.

• Work collaboratively with service users, families, healthcare professionals, local authorities, and other stakeholders to ensure coordinated and holistic care.

• Support hospital discharges and transitions of care where appropriate.

• Ensure care delivery promotes dignity, choice, independence, and positive outcomes for adults receiving support.

3. Clinical Delegation and Oversight

• Provide clinical leadership and oversight to care staff delivering delegated healthcare tasks.

• Assess competency and safely delegate nursing interventions in line with NMC guidance and organisational policies.

• Provide ongoing supervision, guidance, and support to care teams undertaking clinical responsibilities.

• Ensure safe administration and management of medications and other clinical interventions.

• Promote best practice in infection prevention and control, safeguarding, moving and handling, and clinical governance.

4. Care Staff Training and Development

• Deliver, facilitate, and evaluate training on clinical skills, nursing procedures, and care-related topics.

• Support competency assessments and sign-off processes for delegated healthcare tasks.

• Provide coaching, mentoring, and professional development opportunities to care staff.

• Identify learning needs and support continuous improvement through individual and team development plans.

• Promote a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous learning within the branch.

5. Documentation, Quality Assurance and Compliance

• Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and timely records of assessments, care planning activities, reviews, and clinical interventions.

• Ensure all documentation complies with CQC standards, NMC requirements, GDPR, and company policies.

• Participate in audits, quality assurance processes, investigations, and service improvement initiatives.

• Monitor incidents, accidents, and concerns, ensuring appropriate actions and learning outcomes are implemented.

• Support the branch in maintaining compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Excellent clinical assessment, care planning, and risk management skills.

• Strong knowledge of adult health conditions and complex care requirements.

• Ability to develop and maintain detailed, person-centred care plans and clinical documentation.

• Strong leadership, mentoring, and staff development skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with clients, families, professionals, and colleagues.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a community setting.

• Knowledge of safeguarding adults, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), infection prevention and control, and clinical governance.

• Strong understanding of CQC regulations, NMC standards, and best practice guidance.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Registered Nurse with a valid NMC PIN.

• Demonstrable experience in clinical assessment, care planning, and risk assessment.

• Experience supervising, supporting, and developing care staff.

• Experience working with adults in community, homecare, hospital, residential, or nursing care settings.

• Excellent understanding of safeguarding, clinical governance, and regulatory compliance.

Desirable

• Previous experience in a leadership, supervisory, mentoring, or clinical governance role.

• Experience supporting adults with:

  • Learning disabilities

  • Autism spectrum conditions

  • Mental health needs

  • Physical disabilities

  • Neurological conditions

  • Complex care requirements

  • Palliative and end-of-life care needs

  • Dementia and age-related conditions

• Experience in community nursing, complex care, ICU, ED, case management, or specialist clinical services.

• Experience completing competency assessments and delivering staff training.

This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults receiving care and support while helping to develop and maintain a highly skilled and compassionate workforce.