Long Term Ventilation Nurse
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) ensure the best possible quality of life and make every moment count for children and families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Our family-centred approach includes specialist nursing care, symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, therapies, care at end of life, bereavement support, counselling and volunteer services in the family home; all meeting the individual needs of the child, young person and whole family.
In 2020, all three of our hospices; The Nook (Norfolk), The Treehouse (Ipswich) and Milton (Cambridge) were rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission.
Our people are central to our success. We have a talented workforce of staff and volunteers in Care, Fundraising, Retail, Facilities, IT, Finance, Marketing & Communications and Human Resources.
We employ around 400 employees and have more than 1,800 volunteers across the organisation, including 49 shops and a Retail Distribution Centre.
The vacancy
*A Full UK Driving License and access to own vehicle is essential for this role*
Shift Pattern:
37.5 hours per week – applications for 30+ hours welcome
including occasional weekends and night working
Permanent Contract
Care Salary Band: 6
Are you:
Enthusiastic?
Hard Working?
An Autonomous Practitioner?
Excellent at Communicating?
Do you have:
- Experience of caring for children and young people who require LTV support?
- A passion to provide high quality evidence based care?
- Excellent communication skills?
- Great time management skills?
Responsibilities include:
The post holder will plan and develop, implement and evaluate a specialist LTV service alongside the EACH LTV team and wider multi-disciplinary Team. Ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care, safety and support.
The post holder will provide specialist advice, education/training, assessment and care planning and support to health care professionals within EACH and externally.
The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of the LTV service, research and standards of care within EACH.
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