Children Community Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health service provider in Knowsley seeks a dedicated Band 6 Children Community Nurse to manage a caseload of children with complex health needs. This role requires clinical assessment skills and the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive care. The successful candidate will have a nursing qualification and experience in community health. Flexible working is possible, emphasizing a commitment to quality care and positive health outcomes.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with complex health needs.
• Ability to document variances using evidence-based practice.
• Confident in handling acutely unwell children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of children’s community nursing.
• Be accountable for monitoring and evaluation of work delegated to team members.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with other service providers.

Skills

Clinical assessment and management

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Nursing qualification and registration with NMC

Job description

Overview

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. You will deliver preventative and supportive care for children and young people with complex health needs who live within the Knowsley catchment. You will work under the guidance of the CCN team manager and clinical lead and alongside a multidisciplinary, inter-agency team that plays a vital role in preventing GP and Hospital attendances for this population of CYP. The role requires the successful applicant to be confident and competent in clinical assessment and management of acutely unwell CYP, as described in the essential criteria. The successful candidate must understand the variances from clinical norms that a CYP with complex health needs may present with and document these variances using evidence-based practice to develop a care plan unique to each CYP with varying and challenging health needs.

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

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of children’s community nursing, operating within Mersey Care policies to deliver specialist assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation while prioritising the needs of individuals 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 line with individual skills and abilities.
• Be responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of 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 Mersey Care

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 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 are delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality of services and safely reduce costs as we do so.

Additional Information

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. 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 including establishment of systems and processes.

This advert closes on Thursday 2 Oct 2025.