Job summary
Employer heading
Children’s Complex Needs Nurse
Band 6
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
• Ìý ÌýPrimary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Ìý ÌýSpecialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Ìý ÌýCommunity physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced paediatric/children’s nurse looking for a new role to be a part of our friendly and dynamic community team.
The Children’s Continuing Care and Assessment Team are looking for an enthusiastic registered nurse, with a strong clinical background in supporting children with complex health care needs to join our team.Ìý
The successful candidate will need to have a passion for working with children and their families to promote excellent care coordination. You will need to possess excellent clinical and communication skills and have knowledge and experience of equipment used by children with long term medical needs.
We are a bespoke community nursing team providing a range of nursing services to children and young people with complex needs, in particular supporting all aspects of the continuing healthcare process. In providing this support to children, young people and their families you will be involved in the assessment of nursing need, management of care and oversight of the provision of equipment and consumables. The post holder will also participate in the training of Parents and settings to ensure the consistent application of care
Main duties of the job
• Ìý ÌýTo work as part of a Childrens Continuing Care and Assessment Team providing a nursing service for children referred for assessment and intervention.
• Ìý ÌýTo be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
• Ìý ÌýTo undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied
Presentations, using self determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate
hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
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• Ìý ÌýTo establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical
reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to
formulate interventions and programmes of care.
• Ìý ÌýTo participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes
and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector and parents/carers.
• Ìý ÌýTo participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
• Ìý ÌýTo engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.
• Ìý ÌýTo provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
• Ìý ÌýTo provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues
Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Degree or equivalent
- Registered nurse qualification , Child Branch or relevant experience.
- Current Professional Registration with NMC
- Evidence of formal training / self-study / specialist experience to post graduate level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
- Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs.
- Knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice. that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working Experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community/non clinical setting Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice Development of new roles and services Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
- Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
- Experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community/non clinical setting
Applicant requirements
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cathy Evans
- Job title
- Service Manager.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information about the post please contact Complex Needs Admin Team on - [email protected] who will arrange for you to speak to Michele Kershaw, Team Leader or Cat Evans, Service Manager.
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