Childrens Community NurseNHS

Job summary

Are you a passionate, registered Childrens Nurse looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference? Join our Childrens Community Nursing Team and help deliver high-quality care to children and young people in homes, schools, nurseries and clinics. We work closely with children and their families to ensure that wherever possible, care can be delivered safely in the comfort of the childs own home. You will support children with complex health needs and acute or long-term conditions, using your clinical skills, communication skills and compassion. This is an exciting opportunity to work both independently and as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

As a Childrens Community Nurse, you will play a key role in helping children and young people receive specialist, high-quality care. Working closely with children and their families, you will assess individual health needs and plan and deliver evidence-based care. You will support children with complex, acute, chronic, life-limiting or additional health needs across homes, schools and community clinics. The role will involve tracheostomy care, non-invasive ventilation, intravenous and subcutaneous medication, port flushing and central line care, enteral feeding, and safe airway management, including suctioning and administering nebulised medication as well as acute nursing skills. You will also facilitate timely hospital discharge, working with the wider multidisciplinary team, and build the confidence of parents, carers and school staff through practical clinical training and support.

Job description

To work within the Childrens Community Nursing Service, delivering high quality, evidence-based nursing care for children and young people with life limiting and life threatening conditions and supporting children and young people with short- and long-term conditions.

To identify the health needs of children to be nursed in the community and work in liaison with multi-agency partners to promote collaboration and effective communication.

To work across the Childrens Community Nursing Service developing skills in complex, acute and long-term conditions care.

Full Job Description attached.

About us

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team: We work well together and with our communities