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Detailed job description and main 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.
* You will also be supporting the management of the integrated acute and community care pathways for children with short & long-term conditions.
* 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 criteria
* Appropriate NMC Registration Children's trained
* Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
* Specialist Practitioner Degree in Children's Nursing
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
* 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 managerment
* Ability to Implement changes within nursing practice
* Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice
* Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
* Experience of looking after children with Complex health care needs
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we're looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We'll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Children's Community Nurse (PDF, 374.3KB)
* Creating your best application (PDF, 6.1MB)
* What we can offer you (PDF, 6.7MB)
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