Senior Children's Community Nurse Leyland, England
Job description
Come and join our Children's Community Nursing team!
We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Children's Nurse, with a special interest in complex needs, to deliver a range of quality nursing care for our children living within the Preston, Chorley and South Ribble footprint.
This is an excellent opportunity for Children's Nurses whom are looking to further develop their current knowledge and nursing skills, which can be transferred within the community setting.
You will work closely with the specialist complex needs nurse as well as being part of the acute Children's Community Nursing Team. You will have the opportunity to be involved in exciting service transformation plans around further enhancing the current community nursing provision. Although you will work within the acute community nursing team, your core role expectations will be to provide support and nursing interventions to children with complex health care needs, alongside your MDT colleagues.
Your friendly, reliable and adaptable personal skill sets are essential to this role as we have the privilege to provide complex and acute nursing care in not only our community settings but within the children's own homes.
Enthusiasm to support our team approach in delivering high quality nursing care is a must for this role, and you will also need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be a strong role model whom is adaptable, reliable and approachable.
The senior Community Children's Nurse is responsible for the ongoing assessment of care needs, as well as the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of specialist nursing care. Providing specialised skilled nursing care to children and young people with a variety of nursing needs including long term health conditions and complex needs, life limiting conditions, palliative care, and acute short term nursing.
The care will be provided in children and young people's homes, schools, nurseries and across other community settings. The role will also also involve provision of community children's nursing services working with partners across NHS organisations, inclusive of primary care networks, to enhance an integrated children's nursing service.
To facilitate early discharge and prevent avoidable readmission to hospital for children with either acute or chronic health care needs, through the provision of specialist support and clinical skills to aid assessment, treatment and planning of care delivered by an autonomous practitioner to their family or carers.
Also to act as a resource of paediatric expertise, providing specialist advice to other professionals, promoting evidence based practice.
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
The Children's Community Nursing Team aims to provide a high quality in reach and outreach nursing service for children with acute and complex health care needs.
The team has very close links with colleagues within our Specialist Nursing teams covering a range of long term health conditions, such as Endocrine and Diabetes, Respiratory, Allergy, Neuromuscular, Bladder and Bowel, Palliative and Epilepsy.
We have close links with our colleagues working within the acute Paediatric clinical areas within Royal Preston Hospital alongside colleagues from our Community and Neurodevelopmental Paediatric team. We also work collaboratively with primary and tertiary care colleagues and education colleagues.
Duties will include, but not be limited to:
- You will be instrumental in the multi faceted care delivery processes and strengthening the development of partnership working to ensure a seamless patient journey.
- You will be regularly developing, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of care.
- You will also be supporting the management of the intergrated acute and community care pathways for children with complex/short term conditions.
- Teaching families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enables them to feel confident in caring for the child.
- You will be involved in assessing children with continuing health care needs using the decision support tool.
- Appropriate clinicalskills such as obtaining blood, care of a central line/port & wound care.
- Administration of medications including intravenous therapy and cytotoxic drugs; in partnership with pharmacy colleagues.
- Awareness of current drugs/therapies in the treatment of pain and other symptoms. This requires specialist knowledge of Children'spalliativecare issues and symptom management.
- Information and situations exposed to are often of a complex and sensitive nature requiring sensitivity, empathy and reassurance.
- Demonstrate excellent clinical practice, keeping up to date with new developments in nursing care and treatments ensuring practice is evidence based utilising current research.
- Actively participate and promote clinical supervision and reflective practice.
