Children's Community Nurse: Home & School Care

The Methodist Church in Britain; Lancashire; In loco; GBP 29.000 - 42.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Nurse for the Children’s Community Nursing Service for a 12-month fixed-term post. You will care for children with health needs at home and in school, assessing needs and planning care, and supporting early discharge and the virtual ward.

Responsibilities include home IV therapy, wound care, safeguarding, MDT attendance, and educating families and school staff. NMC registration as a sick children’s nurse is required.

Competenze

• CPD relevant to current practice.
• Medicines management and BLS mandatory training.

Mansioni

• Assess children's health needs and develop individual care plans.
• Give home IV therapy, IM medication and venepuncture.
• Provide wound care and dressings, write wound care plans and work with tissue viability leads.
• Attend MDT meetings and arrange multidisciplinary meetings to enable early or complex discharge home.
• Safeguard children, make referrals and attend safeguarding meetings.
• Care for children with acute medical needs and complex long-term conditions.
• Support children referred to the virtual ward.
• Carry out continence, product and routine health assessments.
• Contribute to the EHCP process by giving individual health advice.
• Train and educate parents, families, and school and nursery staff.
• Support nursing care in the community to facilitate early discharges and prevent admissions or readmissions.
• Support education staff to meet children's health needs through training and care plans.

Conoscenze

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clear communication

Time management

IT skills (Word/Excel)

Formazione

CPD evidence

Medicines management

BLS training

NMC registration (sick children’s nurse)

Descrizione del lavoro

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Nurse for the Children’s Community Nursing Service for a 12-month fixed-term post. You will care for children with health needs at home and in school, assessing needs and planning care, and supporting early discharge and the virtual ward.

Responsibilities include home IV therapy, wound care, safeguarding, MDT attendance, and educating families and school staff. NMC registration as a sick children’s nurse is required.