Are you an experienced children's nurse? Would you like to work in a team enabling children with complex medical health needs in the community? If so come and joinour welcoming and supportive Children's Continuing Care and Assessment Team.

We support children with complex physical health needs in their homes, bycompleting Childrens Continuing Care assessment, providing their ongoing medical device and consumable supply, training, advocating and supporting the child or young person and their family enabling them to stay well and thrive in the community.

As part of the Children's Complex Needs Nursing Service we work closely with the wider children's nursing teams in LSCFT, and with the wider MDT in partner agencies supporting the child or young person's individual needs.

The team covers East Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Preston and West Lancashire and this position will be based in our Pennine area, therefore travel across this area will be essential to this post on a regular basis. Our team operates Monday to Friday 8am until 5:30pm.

Main duties of the job

You will be NMC registered, and have post qualification children's nursingexperience including working with children with complex health needs in a multi-agency context. Experience working in a community setting and with children with tracheostomies and ventilation would be advantageous.

You will possess excellent clinical and communication skills and have knowledge and experience of children's complex needs nursing and the technology and equipment used by these children.

You will have great organisational skills and ability to use IT systems. The postrequires an ability to work independently accessing supervision as required. You will be highly motivated and dedicated to evidence based practice.

You will be responsible for children and young people with diverse physical healthneeds, undertaking assessments of children and young people in order to establish individualised management and treatment plans and determine appropriate interventions and goals. On a daily basis you will bring together safeguarding, clinical and case management skills to benefit the children and young people.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Degree or equivalent
• Registered nurse qualification - Child Branch or relevant experience
• Current Professional Registration with NMC

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
• Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs
• Knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes for children with diverse needs/ related to client group

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice
• Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
• Experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community/non clinical setting

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to manage children with challenging behaviours
• Problem solving/ Decision making in relation to clinical practice, NMC standards and implications for practice

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Peters Centre

Burnley

BB11 2DL

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