Children Community Nurse

NHS; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service organization in Knowsley seeks a dedicated Band 6 Children Community Nurse to support children with complex health needs. You will manage a caseload, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to provide essential care. Candidates must hold relevant qualifications and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. This full-time role offers an opportunity to impact children's lives positively and support their independence.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Actively involved in professional development.
• Experience of research/audit/evaluation.
• Knowledge of Childhood Immunisation Programmes.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of children's community nursing.
• Support safe discharges and enable children to live independently.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to achieve health outcomes.

Skills

Ability to motivate/negotiate with and influence others

Ability to manage and prioritise within caseload

Excellent communication skills - spoken, written and IT

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse or Community Children's Nurse

V100 / V300

Job description

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people 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 (see below essential criteria, the successful candidate must meet all). Understand the variance from the clinical norms that a CYP with complex health needs may present with, and the knowledge to 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.

Main duties of the job

Manage a defined caseload of children's community nursing children working within broadly defined by Mersey Care policies to deliver on the specialist assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation but having the freedom to prioritise the needs of individuals within that caseload recognising and responding to additional needs and crises as they occur.

Be the accountable practitioner for the defined caseload, prioritising and delegating planned interventions appropriately to members of the support Team in accordance with individual's skills and abilities.

Be responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of the work delegated from the defined caseload to team members.

Ensure that organisational policies, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards and competencies within the skill mix 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, working collaboratively to provide a comprehensive service to children and young people.

Agree and contribute to setting team objectives and delivering agreed outcomes.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

This role aims to reduce hospital admissions, support safe discharges, and enable 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.

To work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.

To ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse -School Nurse (SCPHN) or Community Children's Nurse (CCN)
• V100 / V300

Knowledge & Experience

• Actively involved in professional development
• Clinical Governance and Risk Management
• Experience of research/audit/evaluation
• Knowledge of Health Promotion and Education
• Knowledge of Health Needs Assessment
• Knowledge of Childhood Immunisation Programmes
• Knowledge of Child development, screening and assessments
• Knowledge of Child Safeguarding issues
• Understanding of local and national influences on health care delivery
• Awareness of current trends in School Health practice
• Awareness of local and national Public Health agendas
• Awareness of children and young people who have tracheostomy's, urinary catheters, stomas, enteral feeds, and usage of associated equipment

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

• Ability to motivate/negotiate with and influence others.
• Evidence of ability to manage and prioritise within caseload
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individualised and schoolbased programmes of ca
• Understanding of skill required for teamwork.
• Ability to motivate/negotiate with and influence others
• Understanding of teaching/education skills with junior staff
• Demonstrate the ability and skill required of a clinical leader to a team of staff.
• Ability to travel, for work purposes, within the Mersey Care area.
• Demonstrate excellent communication Skills - spoken, written and IT
• Nurse immuniser (or willing to undertake training and practice)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.