Children Community Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in Knowsley seeks a dedicated Band 6 Children Community Nurse for a 12-month fixed-term position. Your role will involve supporting children with complex health needs through effective clinical assessment and management, while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate confidence and experience in managing pediatric care. Apply today to make a meaningful impact on young lives.

Qualifications

• Confident and competent in clinical assessment and management of the acutely unwell children and young people.
• Understanding of variances from clinical norms in CYP with complex health needs.
• Experience in applying evidence-based practice to develop a unique care plan.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of children within community nursing.
• Be the accountable practitioner for the defined caseload.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with primary and community care colleagues.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Management of complex health needs

Evidence-based practice

Job description

Overview

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Role

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with complex health needs? We are looking for a Fixed Term (12 months) 0.6 WTE dedicated Band 6 Children Community Nurse (CCN) to join our team, delivering preventative and supportive care for children and young people with complex health needs who live within the catchment of Knowsley. You will be working under the guidance of the CCN team manager and clinical lead and alongside a multidisciplinary team, inter agency team that play a vital role in prevention of GP and Hospital attendances for this population of children/ young people (CYP).

The role does require the successful applicant to be confident and competent in the management of clinical assessment and management of the acutely unwell CYP, and to understand the variance from the clinical norms that a CYP with complex health needs may present with. You will document these clinical variances using evidence-based practice to develop a care plan unique to the CYP with varying and challenging health needs.

As a team we would love to welcome a dedicated, knowledgeable, clinically experienced practitioner to our team who is ready to relish the challenge of making each care episode count and be golden for our CYP with complex health needs in Knowsley.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of children within community nursing, delivering specialist assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation, with the freedom to prioritise individual needs within Mersey Care policies.
• Be the accountable practitioner for the defined caseload, prioritising and delegating planned interventions to team members in line with individual skills and abilities.
• Be responsible for monitoring and evaluating work delegated from the defined caseload to team members.
• Ensure that organisational policies, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards and competencies are adhered to by team members.
• Establish and maintain a good working relationship with primary and community care colleagues and other service providers, e.g., education, to provide a comprehensive service to children and young people.
• Agree and contribute to setting team objectives and delivering agreed outcomes.
• Support the aim to reduce hospital admissions, enable safe discharges, and help children and young people to live as fully and independently as possible within their communities with dignity, choice and inclusion at the centre of care.
• Work in collaboration with partner agencies (voluntary and statutory) to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.
• Ensure delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area, including establishment of systems and processes.

Qualifications and Essential Criteria

• Confident and competent in clinical assessment and management of the acutely unwell CYP with complex health needs.
• Understanding of the variances from clinical norms in CYP with complex health needs and ability to document these variances.
• Experience in applying evidence-based practice to develop a care plan for CYP with varying and challenging health needs.

Additional Information

• Type of appointment: Fixed Term (12 months) 0.6 WTE Band 6 CCN.
• Fair recruitment and equality information: please share equality information as part of the application process.
• Disability Confident Employer: guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who meet minimum criteria and identify as disabled.
• Reasonable adjustments: contact recruitment for assistance during the process.
• DBS and updates: enhanced DBS required for Children & Young People services; enrolment in DBS Update Service is expected for a fee of £16 per year.
• Sponsorship and visa information: assess likelihood of sponsorship via gov.uk criteria if applicable.
• Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
• New entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Application and Closing Notes

Please check the email account used for correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs. We reserve the right to close vacancies when a minimum number of applications is received. We require enhanced DBS for this role and related services.