Job summary
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.

About us
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 Government have announced their intention to introduce the need for COVID vaccinations for all front line patient facing roles (and those staff working in patient areas). This will come into effect from 1st April 2022. This role may be in scope and as such if you are appointed it is likely that your COVID vaccination status will form part of your Occupational Health assessment. If you would like further information on the vaccine and for ways to book this please visit www.nhs.uk

Job 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.

Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential

• Appropriate NMC Registration Children's trained

Desirable

• Specialist Practitioner Degree in Children's Nursing
• Mentorship

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Evidence of clinical competence in area of Children's Community nursing e.g. preparing and administering IV medications, gastrostomy and tracheostomy care, wound care and respiratory management
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice
• Experience of looking after children with Complex health care needs
• 2 years post registration experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address
Broadoaks Child Development Centre
Balcarres Road
Leyland
PR25 3ED
United Kingdom

Employer's website
https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Nurse Lead- CCNT
Kate Catmore
kate.catmore@lthtr.nhs.uk
01772520710