Children's Community Nurse

Job overview

Come and join our spectacular Children's Community Nursing team.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Children's Nurse to deliver a range of quality nursing care for our children living within the Preston, Chorley and South Ribble footprint.

This is an excellent and exciting 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 as an autonomous practitioner.

You will have the opportunity to be involved in exciting service transformation plans around further enhancing the current community nursing provision. You will also be involved in collaborative working with children and their families with acute and long term health conditions, whilst working alongside your MDT colleagues.

Your friendly, reliable and adaptable personal skill sets are essential to this role as we have the privilege to provide 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. You will also need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be a strong role model who is adaptable, reliable and approachable.

Please do read the attached job description to see if you meet the essential requirements of this role before applying.

Main duties of the job

The Community Children's Nurse is responsible for providing specialised, skilled nursing care to children and young people with a variety of nursing needs, including acute short term nursing needs; long term health conditions and complex needs; life limiting conditions; palliative care and the ongoing assessment of care needs.

Our aim is to facilitate early discharge and prevent avoidable readmission to hospital for children, with either acute or chronic health care needs. This is carried out through the provision of specialist support and clinical skills to aid assessment, treatment and planning of care, delivered by an autonomous practitioner. The post holder will act as a resource of paediatric expertise, providing specialist advice to other professionals, promoting evidence-based practice.

The care will be provided in children and young people's homes, schools, nurseries and across other community settings. The post holder will be expected to develop, implement and evaluate programmes of specialist nursing care. The role will also involve working with partners across NHS organisations, inclusive of primary care networks to enhance an integrated children's nursing service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Children's Community Nursing Team aims to provide a high quality in reach and outreach nursing service which enables a safe discharge from hospital and prevents unavoidable hospital admissions.

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, Complex Needs, Palliative and Epilepsy.

We also have close links with our colleagues working within the acute Paediatric clinical areas within Royal Preston Hospital alongside colleagues from our Community and Neuro-developmental 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.
• Teaching families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures, enabling them to feel confident in caring for their child.
• Appropriate clinical skills 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's palliative care 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.
• Be able to use computer programmes and have good use of IT skills and awareness.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.