A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide skilled, effective and evidence based nursing care to children and young people aged 0 to 18 years with a variety of health conditions in their own home and other community settings within Northumberland and North Tyneside.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care for children and young people with acute and chronic illness, complex disability or palliative care needs.
• To work in partnership with the children, their families and carers and with other professionals from Health, Social Services, Education and non-statutory agencies to deliver care, teaching and training to meet the child and young persons assessed nursing needs.
• To provide care that is flexible and responsive to the individual and meets the demands of the service as a whole.
• To work with young people, with complex health needs, their familiesIcarers and others within health care to promote a seamless transition process between children and adult services.
The post holder will share with other Children's Community Nurses the responsibility for delivering skilled nursing care to children and young people aged 0- 18 years registered with a General Practitioner within Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust or children who are temporarily resident in those areas.
They will participate in discharge planning, multi professional/ agency meetingsIreviews and planning transition to adult services.
They will offer advice and support, teaching and training to parents, carers and others regarding nursing care for children and young people who have a health need.
In the absence of their special school nursing colleagues they will provide nursing care, advice and support to children and young people accessing education in special schools settings in Northumberland
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To provide skilled, effective and evidence based nursing care to children and young people aged 0 to 18 years with a variety of health conditions in their own home and other community settings within Northumberland and North Tyneside.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care for children and young people with acute and chronic illness, complex disability or palliative care needs.
• To work in partnership with the children, their families and carers and with other professionals from Health, Social Services, Education and non-statutory agencies to deliver care, teaching and training to meet the child and young persons assessed nursing needs.
• To provide care that is flexible and responsive to the individual and meets the demands of the service as a whole.
• To work with young people, with complex health needs, their familiesIcarers and others within health care to promote a seamless transition process between children and adult services.
The post holder will share with other Children's Community Nurses the responsibility for delivering skilled nursing care to children and young people aged 0- 18 years registered with a General Practitioner within Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust or children who are temporarily resident in those areas.
They will participate in discharge planning, multi professional/ agency meetingsIreviews and planning transition to adult services.
They will offer advice and support, teaching and training to parents, carers and others regarding nursing care for children and young people who have a health need.
In the absence of their special school nursing colleagues they will provide nursing care, advice and support to children and young people accessing education in special schools settings in Northumberland
This advert closes on Monday 4 Aug 2025
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