Children's Community Nurse (fixed term)

We are currently looking to recruit and enthusiastic Children's Nurse to join our team on a fixed term 4 month basis.

The Children's Community Nursing Service is a small but well-established service that provides care to children and young people who have an identified nursing need/ long term health need, supporting and empowering families to manage their child at home and in a variety of settings across Blackpool. The service also provides the special school nursing service to a number of special schools across the Blackpool and Fylde and Wyre area.

You will be part of a multi-professional team and will require excellent communication skills. We will offer a comprehensive induction and competency programme; prior competency evidence of IV therapy, Venepuncture/ blood sampling, enteral feeding device care, tracheostomy care and Medical Devices will be considered useful.

Job description

The childrens community team cover a seven day service from 8am-9pm.We support nursing care in the community to facilitate early discharges, prevent hospital admissions or readmissions and as support children with health needs in their school.

We support education staff to meet the health needs of children by training them and developing care plans and work alongside other multi agency teams to support children to achieve best outcomes.

This post is for 28.5 hours per week on a fixed term 4 month basis.

Daily access to your own vehicle for managing community visits is required.

Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

• Registered Sick Children's Nurse/Child branch
• Evidence of recent CPD relevant to current Practice

Medicine management and up to date BLS Mandatory training

Desirable

• 2 Year post registration experience
• community experience

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Able to utilise IT skills to document events on a day-to-day basis, write up minutes from meetings and disseminate accordingly.
• Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safeguarding and disability
• Knowledge of recognised health related issues in children and young people with complex and life limited conditions.

Desirable

• To supervise junior staff on a day-to-day basis, to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff.
• Dexterity and co-ordination is required for IV, CVL, IM interventions, the administration of medications, passing of naso-gastric, gastrostomy and tracheostomy tubes

Skills & Ability

Essential

• Able to listen and be a good communicator in a variety of settings/services and enthuse others -- can communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding

Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well-being of clients in a holistic way

Able to work on own initiative and be self-directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care

Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent

Ability to work flexibly to meet operational needs of the team and wider organisations.

To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non judgemental reliable and honest

Car driver, with independent means of transport on a daily basis

Effective time management skills

Desirable

• Able to plan, assess, implement care and evaluate complex activities such as hospital discharge or packages of care.

About the employer

The Children's Community Nursing Team are a team of experienced paediatric nurses.

Our role and responsibility is to support children age 0 to 19 years who live in Blackpool Fylde and Wyre with acute and/or complex health needs. All children referred to the team must have a named Paediatrician.

The team support children in their homes, schools or respite areas. The children's community team cover a seven day service from 8am-9pm.We support nursing care in the community to facilitate early discharges, prevent hospital admissions or readmissions and as support children with health needs in their school.

We support education staff to meet the health needs of children by training them and developing care plans andwork alongside other multi agency teams to support children to achieve best outcomes.

Referrals are made by paediatric teams locally and specialist hospitals.