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.
The senior 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, and 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.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Catmore Job title: Clinical Nurse Lead- CCNT Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 01772 520710
Please contact myself on 01772 520710 for more information on this role. I am more than happy to chat on the phone and would welcome colleagues to come and have a look around.
